A fountain of chocolate and other delicacies

Last Friday we went out for a group dinner to celebrate my birthday. We discovered (actually, Andy and Jess did) a restaurant with a prominently placed chocolate fountain, and with no other knowledge about the menu, Hunty decided that it looked appropriate and made a booking.

Who wouldn't want to go to a restaurant with this out the front?

Previously in various Japanese restaurants, we have boiled our own food (in a seasoned broth), barbequed our own food, and also finished off pre-cooked food on a hotplate. This time, it turned out that we were in a deep fry your own food type of restuarant.

The initial reaction was basically, "Wow, this is cool." Each of us chose a selection of tasty looking skewers (meat, vegetables, and random things like bread), battered them, crumbed them, and eagerly put them into the deep fryer in the middle of the table. I quickly learned that just about anything deep fried is delicious. Mushroom, meat, pumpkin, mochi-cheese and eggplant, all delicious. About half an hour later however, I was changing my mind, and starting to think that the whole idea was evil. You can only eat so much deep fried food before it starts to get sickening.

After the binge

I thus (with a little prompting from Jess), decided that I needed to break up all the grease in my system, and what better way to do that than with a little chocolate.his was an excellent idea (obviously, how could it be otherwise?). The best combination was fresh pineapple in chocolate, the sweet acidity of the pineapple both complemented the chocolate, and refreshed the palette.

By the time we were done, we were all feeling rather sick. The consensus was: fun, but never again!