Tonight we (Eric and me) hosted a Swiss fondue dinner for all interested students. Overall we were more than 40 people.We had to improvise quite a bit. Instead of Swiss Caquelons, we used the ceramic pots and heating-sets used for Chinese Hot-Pot. It worked very well and we got many helping hands from other students, although crowd control turned out to be a real challenge at some point...
We brought the Cheese to China after the christmas holiday.
"I believe it was more than 10 Kg in total and it's a miracle that they didn't stop me with that stuff which resembles plastic explosives in its consistency" commented Eric who travelled though London and Hongkong.
The evening showed once more the huge potential for innvoation that lies hidden within the CEIBS student body: Some groups "optimized" their fondue by adding Swiss choccolate, which made me sceam NOOOOOO! just in time to save at least one of the pots from being ruined. Most Chinese are used to adding a little bit of sugar while cooking and they thought it actually improved the fondue's overall taste (no comment here).
Yet others (the Westerners to be exact) added enough Kirsch so that the fondue could have been easily classified as biofuel, while yet another (Chinese) group ordered dumplings to see whether these could be dunked into the cheese as well...
Let's see how they will handle the smell which is bound to persist in the canteen for another few days ;-)
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