0 a hot dish prepared by keeping a container of either hot oil or melted cheese over a flame at the table and putting pieces of meat in the oil to be cooked or pieces of bread into the cheese -- 热油（或奶酪）火锅
The most common include goose, chicken, fondue (with many types of meat), raclette and lamb.
It is considered an ideal pairing for raclette or fondue.
It specializes in decadent, chocolate-based desserts such as fondue, crepes, milkshakes, waffles, and hot chocolate, many of which it serves in signature utensils.
Because of the growing practice of using chocolate fountains for other types of fondue, chocolate fountains became interchangeably referred to as fondue fountains.
Main courses are still fondues, but include more typical entrees of meat, poultry, pasta and seafood.
For example, there is sweet red-bean porridge fondue, and ice flakes with syrup.
Many families have developed new traditions for themselves and eat such meals as meat fondue or raclette.
Some meals are communal, such as fondue, where a pot is set in the middle of the table for each person to dip into.
