Today Stefan and I went to Stefan’s parents to celebrate Xmas together.
We had “Fondue chinoise” as you know “Fondue” is fondue. And “chinoise” means Chinese in French.
Mmm… but it’s typical christmas dinner in Switzerland.
Pierce a piece of beef and leave it in a “bouillon soup” for a few minutes. When the meat is cooked, you dip it in a different kind of sauce and eat it! It’s very yummy.
It’s like a “shabu shabu” in Japan. But “shabu schabu” we use very thin meat and leave it in a soup just a few seconds.
The boyfriend of my siter-in law, he is an Italien. So I asked him “what do Italien people eat for christmas dinner?”
Answer was “Fish”. I was surprised. I thought they also eat meat like Swiss or America and so on.
Japanese people don’t have specific foods for christmas. But as far as I know we tend to eat “roasted chicken”. After the christmas dinner we eat a Special christmas cake. “Christmas cake” is one of the “must food” for christmas in Japan.
Some people eat also “kentucky fried chicken”!! Because it’s not expensive and many children love it! (In Switzerland there are many McDonalds and Starbucks but there isn’t Kentucky fried chicken!!!)
After the fantastic dinner, we lighted candles on the christmas tree!! The flames brought us a special warm atmosphere!
We had a very nice christmas evening. Thank you very much.
“Happy Happy Christmas”
P.S “Weihnachten” means “christmas” in German.
