A rustic serpentine bar suiting a truck driver’s joint welcomes you when you enter the Rosti Bar in Zurich’s Hauptbahnhof. In a poetic sense, this charming approach may be justified, since the bar is located in the main train station and serves daily thousands of commuters. If asked what the national Swiss dish is, most foreigners will answer chocolate, cheese, or maybe fondue, but in my conversations with the locals, most answers were rosti, a delicacy much harder to export. The dish consists of boiled potatoes pressed into a round loaf inside a frying pan; this cooking process creates a brown crust on the top of the cake. This is the basic version, but many variations exist here and all of them consist of different dressings added to the topside of the dish as if it was a pizza. I took the excellent pork with cheese, but apparently the sausages and vegetables options, both served with cheese as well, are very popular. Obviously, this is a cholesterol-challenged plate, but once a year you can stop your counting for the sake of bilateral relationships. After your order is ready, the waiter will approach you from the inner side of the long coiled bar with a still-hot frying pan to be placed over a solid insulating wooden base in front of you - soon you will find out, once again, about another excellent Swiss culinary surprise.