Chocolate chef Mohamad Yazid Amir Hassan demonstrating chocolate-making at the museum.
THE Aztec civilisation prized the cocoa bean so highly that it was a form of currency.
The beans were the natives’ coins and there were even “scams” during the pre-Columbian era as forgers would fill empty cocoa shells with earth and trade them for fruits, turkey eggs and rabbits.
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