Like the cheese for the cheese fondue, the oil is kept hot by an alcohol flame under the pot. The deep-fried tenderloin cubes are eaten with a variety of sauces. For a seafood fondue , shrimp, clams, squid, and other seafood is deep-fried and eaten with various sauces in the same style. Chocolate fondue is handled like a cheese fondue. Either British style biscuits or cubes of fruits, in Thailand preferably mango and pineapple, are dipped into melted chocolate.
Fondues are a social matter.
Hardly any dish is more suitable for festive occasions. In restaurants they are commonly served in orders for at least two guests. Austrian cuisine differs only a little from German cuisine, though is does feature a certain Eastern European influence. Coffee was introduced to the West by the Turkish via Austria, and still today Austria has the best developed coffee culture in all of Europe.