Not sure if everyone has tried Fondue, but in America, I'm accustomed to dipping a whole variety of things in the pot of cheese... such as bread, slices of steak, sausages, apples, my finger.
So much to my dismay that here in Switzerland, they ONLY dip bread. At one restaurant, Waverly and I found a fondue on the menu served with veal sausage and hash browns. I asked the waiter if we could dip the sausage in the cheese and he told me "no" looking at me as if I had 3 heads.
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Shall I say I experienced the so-called "culture shock" for the first time when the waitor pointed out the sausage doesn't go into the fondue pot?
did you tell them you're chinese and meat goes with everything?
I was invited to a swiss home in Basel. All night it was cheese fondue and wine. Since I was living in a hotel and there was no Chinese restaurant nearby so I was hungry for the rest of the night.
Next time, ask for Fondue Chinoise, the swiss style of Chinese hotpot (hence the name). When I saw that on the menu, I was happy because the dipping ingredients were meat but then the waiter told me the meat was raw and you dip it in boiling broth, not cheese.
Yep Fondue is bread dipping in cheese and nothing else!
Here are some more rules:
- If you loose a piece of bread in the cheese, you have to buy the next round of white wine.
- Once there is just cheese crust left in the pot, you can add a raw egg, and mix it, it is kind of a cheese crust omlet. Pretty good.
Actually there are two more kinds of Fondue:
Fondue Chinous: As Albert mentioned, this is thinly sliced raw beed cooked in stock. You eat French fries with it.
Then there is Fondue Bourginoug: Thinly slices beef cooked in oil.
and for the sweet tooth there is Chocolate Fondue: fruits dipped in melted Toblerone
Cool. I want to try it....
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