Anatomy Of A Stupid.

Fondue can do

It’s about time I wrote about one of my food outings. Since it was my weekend, I remember passing by this cute little joint down at Hartamas called Fondue House, and it always looked interesting to me. Gourmet food always has this weird zing to it that attracts me like a magnet. Plus it had a tagline that read tasty steamy cheese. I hope that’s a good thing *gulp*.

Considering the place is quite uptown, I think it had a pretty decent and laidback setting. It’s a small cafe like joint, of course serves mainly fondue but had some other stuff too. Seats maybe around 30 people? Give or take. The menu wasn’t a wallet burner too, at first glance. Brief intro, a fondue is usually cheese or chocolate melted in a pot called a caquelon, served with seafood or beef or chicken with baguette, fruits, etc. depending on what fondue you ask for.

There’s pretty much 8 types of fondue to choose from, 4 of which had wine in it but the idea of cheddar cheese and wine didn’t quite sound right so we went for chicken bacon bits fondue served with breaded chicken and dry crackers. Nope, no fancy filet’ mignon or cabillaud aux courgette here, just plain old chicken fillet, breaded with supermarket standard bread crumbs deep fried.

As mentioned, it’s cheese melted in a pot like this. Sure, it’s not rocket science but the idea is fantabulous! But then maybe it’s just me since I always had a soft spot for cheese in me. No wonder I’m bulging up. As you can see aside from the chicken and crackers, there’s also some veggie. Oh great, we all know we need veggie to save our day. Not.

Let’s be honest with each other for 2 seconds. I’m no expert but I remember someone telling me a cheese fondue is supposed to use cottage cheese. Not Fondue House apparently. They use cheddar cheese. Upon stealing a scent of the piping hot cheese I couldn’t tell what cheddar it was but tasting it told me everything. It’s pasteurized milk cheddar cheese! You know, the one Kraft or Chesdale makes and you put it in your lunchbox sandwich everyday.

So right. The picture above really tells everything but what the heck, I’ll act like a wise ass and explain anyway. With a fondue what you’re supposed to do is take a food item of your desire and dip it in the fondue and then eat it. Ergo, it would really help if you did not let your tongue or lip touch your fondue fork as it’s going to go back into the cheese and there’s enough bacteria in the cheese already.

No doubt about it, this is seriously fattening food. Even the people advised me to only eat this thing once a month. Perhaps they realise that the 8 slices of cheddar cheese they use have the same amount of calories and fat to.. well, let’s just say it’s dangerously fattening lah okay? So seriously, don’t challenge the wrath of Fart Vader and the likes of that.

Alrighteo! The good part to this dinner was that the Fondue House had a promotion going on then, with any cheese set purchase you’ll get a chocolate set for free. Hooray! More fat! As if I give a hoot about it. The chocolate fondue is considered as a dessert. The one we got came with cut fruits like bananas, green apples, starfruit, strawberries, honeydew and grapes. Some nicely cut into cubes. Actually the best combination is chocolate fondue with marshmallow. Darn, that sentence sure made me hungry.

Steaming hot chocolate and strawberry, you do the math. Incase you need to check your answers it is one delicately sweet sin! The density and texture of the strawberry really won’t count it’s bad points when it’s got some serious edible gold around it if you ask me. I have a feeling they use cooking chocolate with an intense amount of butter for that explosive chocolate taste. Again, a sin, but totally worth it. Roll it around in the chocolate powder, ground hazelnut and grinded coconut and voila, perfection!

Score  :  7/10

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