Chocolate Making Workshop & Coffee Tasting with Hinitan Plantation (22 Jan)

This is part of the Culture series.

Redeem a spot to create your own chocolate bars and experience a select range of coffee while in conversation with Steven Ballantyne, co-owner of the Hinitan Plantation coffee & cocoa farm & Hinitan brand, a seed to table range of coffee & hand-crafted Chocolate in Hong Kong!

Steven will introduce the techniques engaged at Hinitan and in the Hong Kong kitchens to transform the soft, white raw cocoa seed into the chocolate form we all know so well and with freshly prepared cocoa from the Hinitan estate, guests will make 4 of their own designs, 35g chocolate bars with a wide variety of inclusions and toppings available – so if you want a jelly bear and hazelnut chocolate bar, this is your opportunity to create it!

While guests wait for the chocolate bars to set and packaged, The Hinitan Barako coffee Martini and Hinitan Cocoa Husk Chocolate tea will be served.

Date: 22 January 2022 (Saturday)
Time: 2-4 pm
Venue: Unit 6, 12/F, Chai Wan Industrial City Phase.1, 66 Wing Tai Road, Chai Wan

About Steven

Steven is also CEO and founder of EPM Asia Ltd a remote location film production management service, working closely with blue chip companies including Disney Nature, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, NETFLIX & BBC Natural History, Steven is best known for his work filming remote tribes in Papua New Guinea and in contrast a specialist in filming Snow Leopards.

Across the evening Steven will explain how through a series of life experiences he transitioned from his initial career as a Psychotherapist, to explorer, to film producer to coffee and cocoa farmer and how through his journeys he has learned the art of transforming negative experiences into positive outcomes and how helping others has become naturally a way of life.

Please note: chocolate and chocolate related inclusions will be prepared for the event in a commercial kitchen environment in which nuts have been prepared – guests who may experience allergic reactions are to inform the host prior to the event and attend the event on this understanding, accepting full responsibility to ensure their own health and well-being, as such the host, the vendor and their associates cannot be held liable in the unlikely event a guest experiences an allergic reaction to any of the food products provided - The venue, will however ensure the care and act responsibly to support the guest until professional medical treatment can be secured

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