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Turns out Belgians are really good at this whole winter thing. Belgians, you're killing it with your delicious waffles, your excellent chocolate, and your fantastic hot chocolate milk. Last Friday, the SmartShanghai office was pleased to receive a visit from the Mr. Waffles "Waffles on Wheels" mobile waffle baking station. They just showed up and rolled into our office and made us all waffles and hot chocolate. It was a really fine thing. A fine thing indeed. Pictures and more on this feel-good Christmas story after the jump.
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Mr Waffle started as an online delivery thing back in 2013, and from there has added a brick and mortar location in Tianzifang to the business with another on the way. They're also frequent fixtures around Shanghai's pop-up markets scene -- the Jiashan Saturday market in particular -- slinging their simple menu of authentic Brussels-style and Liege-style Belgian waffles, ice cream, cookies, ginger bread, mulled wine, and hot chocolate. In the summertime they do a mobile "Ice Cream on Wheels" promotion for office functions and parties -- you might have seen them on Donghu Lu last year -- and in winter, they do "Waffles on Wheels", which is this showing up to your office...
...to make you waffles. They offer different packages with different permutations of waffles, cookies, and hot chocolate. Prices work out to be between 35rmb and 80rmb per person, depending on how deep you go with your chosen package. They do smaller parties as well, which is they just set up a hot chocolate milk station, plus the option for cookies, ginger bread and more, but for larger parties -- more than 50 people -- they do the live baking. They can accommodate really large groups as well. At max waffle making levels, they can serve 300 in an hour. Packages are custom, and you basically get in contact with them with the amount of people you want to treat and they give you the options. Check the website here.
You can put whipped cream, marshmallows, and syrups and sauces on them. Mmm, delish.
Just enjoying some traditional Belgian treats whilst banging out that HTML code. Living the life. Taking care of business. So yeah, Waffles on Wheels -- good idea for an office Christmas party if you're looking for one. Good for boosting workplace morale, for sure. Get in touch with them here.
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