On the up: Chocolate orgies
On the down: The inability to eat excessive amounts of chocolate without feeling sick

Shirley and I were having mumma-sized chocolate cravings so she suggested we go stand under the chocolate fountain at Hilton. We took off to gorge ourselves stupid on the chocolate buffet. I'd never heard of it before - I had thought it was only part of a buffet, something like the Shang's chocolate fountain.

BUT BUT BUT, it really was just a whole big fat-ass buffet filled with chocolate:

Chocolate cheesecake
Chocolate bread and butter pudding
Chocolate pralines
Hot chocolate (white, dark, milk)
Chocolate fountain fondue thing
Chocolate mud cake
Chocolate peanut butter biscuits
White chocolate mousse
Milk chocolate mousse
Dark chocolate mousse
Chocolate cake
Chocolate mousse cake
Chocolate creme brulee
Fried chocolate dough balls
Chocolate pecan tart

ETC

(They do fabulous martinis too - and there's fruit for the chocolate fountain so it's not all unhealthy. You get your fresh dose of vitamins, minerals and fibre too).

Yay! We attacked it like we hadn't eaten chocolate before. We thought we were invincible! "I'm going to eat everything" I told Shirley "But I think I'll be sick."

"Yah, that's why you only take a bite out of everything then leave it, stupid. Then you can eat everything!"

We were wrong. We weren't invincible. We felt very sick, very soon.

Then again the nausea that would last well through the weekend was well worth it and I'm going back soon for a second round of sick-inducing chocolate heaven. Gives a whole new meaning to S&M. Great intense pleasure arising out of making yourself totally ill.

Anyway, then GL came along and had some really sickly looking affogato on top of chocolate. "This is nice but something's missing," she said. We agreed. There had to be something to counter the excess of sugar.

So we went for Hokkien mee and cleared a giant plate between the three of us.

It was the height of eating.