Oh, my sweets

Fantasia by Escriba

Sands Expo and Convention Centre

YOU can smell it before you see it. As masked courtiers in the darkened entryway beckon you with chocolate lollipops, it's the aroma wafting over from further afield - that of freshly baked chocolate cake - that draws you in.

Then you see it: A 8.5m chocolate waterfall - four tonnes of liquid chocolate cascading down in heavy curtains of heaven. So dreams - chocolate ones anyway - do come true.

It certainly did for Spanish pastry chef Christian Escriba and his wife Patricia Schidmt. A descendent of his family's eponymous century-old pastry house from Barcelona, Mr Escriba has long dreamt of showcasing in Asia the ov…