Thank you - the Beijinger December issue 2009 for that article "Chocolate Fantasy" and the management of Chocolate Bar at Yabaolu - for ruining my New Year’s party!

Please show me the person who awarded “The Best New Bar in 2009” to Chocolate Bar.

Yes, you can say that the interior design is unique, but if you think twice, LAN Club is much better. If we forget about the design, then there is nothing left to talk about here.

Pls do not call a bar “The Best” only because you feel free to get drunk as a pig here and behave the way you would never behave in any other clubs in the city.

Well, back to ruined New Year’s party.

The service is truly bad, Russian waitresses are arrogant, Chinese staff is either shy or exhausted, not trained well or just stupid.

Yes, the prices in menu are really attractive, but I can not say the same about the food.

We paid more than 500 RMB per person for a set menu with bad champagne, inedible meager starters, very late and already cold main courses, plus 500 RMB for the sofa. Thanks God I ate before coming to Chocolate and right after I left it, same applies to the drinks.

The manager promised us a live band with old and modern Russian songs, she even kindly reminded over the phone a day before the party not to be late (!), as the band starts sharply at 10 pm.

We were in Chocolate from 10 pm to 2 am, there was no live band, all we saw was a terribly vulgar and badly planned show featuring the Russian Father Frost who was a gay and obviously knew too much about daily horny yabaolu life.

The timing for the lottery, balloon thing and owner’s (Svetlana) speech was so bad, that the guests had no chance to dance from 10 pm to 2 am, as the dancing floor was always busy. The DJ’ work I will not even start to describe, as during these four hours there were no good songs at all.

Can you imagine a club that can not even organize a proper New Year Countdown? Well, it is Chocolate. Believe it or not, but we counted twice, and it was a real mess.

In other words, being a Russian, I am ashamed of such bar, and really feel sorry for those laowais, who will charge the Russian people and Russian culture by this Chocolate bar. Ohhhhh!