Return of the chocolate mega mousse

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When you order the chocolate mousse at The Parakeet pub in Kentish Town in London, you get treated to a little performance. It starts with a small bowl of white chocolate crumb and biscuit tuile landing on your table. Then a huge mixing bowl of light, fluffy mousse arrives with a waiter. A large spoonful of one is ceremoniously dolloped on to the other. 

The mousse,…