Small cheese fondue party at our sharehouse

 This was actually some time agao, I just found these pictues. A couple of the previous housemates visited and to celebrate there was a fondue party! With food even!

Our sharehouse has room for up to sixteen occupants which means that from time to time the shared space can get a bit messy, but nothing that a free afternoon can fix. We got the living room all tidied up while some of the Japanese housemates went shopping for ingredients to dip. The picture don't show it, but we also got a setup for a chocolate fondue with marshmallows and other kinds of snacks.

From what I understand cheese is very expensive in Japan, especially the higher quality ones. You can still get some of the softer massproduced cheese for a very reasonable price, but I think any cheese connoiseur would just consider it very hard butter. It is pretty good, usually sold in slices individually wrapped, making it quite easy to pack a slice for your lunch box if you so wish. As a Swede I find it a bit overkill with so much plastic, but who am I to complain. I love buying new writing paper just for the sake of having new and fresh paper that most likely will never be used.

We had loads of bread pieces, croutons, vegetables, fruit, waffles, fried mushroom, marshmallows and crackers. Some of it was of course for the chocolate fondue afterwards but I still tried parts of it dipped in cheese and it was okay! The fruits and the cheese flavor never really mixed, it was more like the left side of my mouth tasted the fruit while the right side tasted the cheese.

When you eat cheese there seem to be some rule that you have to drink wine to it. This sharehouse loves wine! You open a bottle and everyone gets a glass. Simply put, it was unnecessary to sample cheese dipped broccoli without some red wine. 

To save ourselves from too much dishes we heated up the cheese in small procelain cups usually used for creme brulé. The cheese turned really stringy and it didn't take long until we had small cheese webs running along all the different plates.

It was a great evening, lots of good food, laughs, weird comparisons of Japan and Sweden. This has to be done again!

Expenses

• I think we paid 400 yen each for this