A place to marvel at chocolates

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.