An Instagram destination

There are museums and there are museums, but have you ever heard of a dessert museum?

We came across this new family destination that was born out of a love (inordinate?) for social media. Nikko Que, Regine Tecson-Que and their partners confess their love for travel, food and desserts, and their love of posting their adventures on Instagram.  Believe it or not, that is how they conceptualized The Dessert Museum, a collaboration of young entrepreneurs who share the same passions. 

As the young owners said, “The Dessert Museum is eight mouth-watering rooms of sugar-filled happiness. This is the only museum you will ever slide into. Follow our candy rabbits through our doughnut hole and slip down our sprinkle slide into the most magical food-filled fantasy you will ever experience.  Choose your path through out Candy Cane Groves or go cotton candy picking in our sweetly enchanted forest.  The adventure is just beginning”.

Actually, to set the record straight, one cannot pick the heaps and mounds of cotton candy filling a specific room, the Cotton Candy Forest because the cotton candy are not edible. Like the Room of a Thousand Marshmallows, there is an outburst of marshmallows, not for the picking, but for everyone to feast their eyes on. Kids though can have some marshmallows and three kinds of dips to choose from in this room.  But the visual treats that each room give to the guests are worth the trip to The Dessert Museum.

As mentioned earlier, there are eight rooms to visit in this fun museum: the Hanging Donuts Room, the entrance of which is through a hole in a huge doughnut. As you enter through the hole, you exit through a slide down to the donut room. The Room of a Thousand Marshmallows, the Candy Cane Groves, the Room of Never Ending Bubbles, the Land of the Giant Gummies, the Cotton Candy Forest, the Cake Pops Carnival and the Ice Cream Room complete the eight fantasy-filled and uniquely-themed rooms when you do a full tour of the museum.

Specially-trained tour guides are assigned to each of the rooms, every room is tailored to each dessert set features. The tour guides share bits of trivia related to the dessert featured. For instance, in the Ice Cream Room – did you know that the earliest ice cream recorded was made centuries ago, around 250 BC, if I remember right, in China with a mixture of snow, rice and corn syrup, which must have been a treat for the children back then.  That was the trivia shared by the tour guide anyway. Another trivia shared was about the first cotton candy that was invented or concocted by an enterprising duo of a dentist and a confectionary maker.

What is amazing for the kids and the young at heart, meaning teenagers, millennial or the young parents who bring their kids for a fun adventure in a secured and confined area, is how the fantasy rooms provoke the imagination to no end.  Imagine fairy-dusted cotton candy forests. Imagine how a kid can fantasize about getting lost in such a forest and loving every minute of it. There are swings, slides and trampolines to complete the fun in any given room. For social media lovers, each themed room is a favorite for taking pictures or selfies and, of course, “instagrammable”. Sharing the photos on FB or Instagram is always liked. You walk away with a balloon with an artisanal chocolate inside to complete your adventure.

Doing the complete tour of the eight fantasy rooms will take about two hours. On any given day, according to Nikko, one of the young owners, they accommodate about a thousand guests, but they have to manage the number to avoid congestion and chaos. Not more than 20 to a room are allowed entry and each room is managed efficiently by a tour guide.

Doing the Dessert Museum, though, is not cheap.  For a two-hour adventure, entrance is P799 per person on weekdays and P899 on weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) for walk-ins. If you book online, one can save P100 each.

The Dessert Museum is located at S Maison Mall which is located below Conrad Hotel Manila, Hilton’s Worldwide Luxury Property at Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City. Now that summer is unofficially here, it could be another family destination during weekends to avoid the sweltering heat.

Mabuhay!!!  Be proud to be a Filipino.

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