Shabu Shabu

The other night, we went out for Shabu Shabu - all you can eat! Delicious!

Gotta love the camera phone:





For those that don't know, Shabu Shabu is a Japanese variant of hot pot. The dish is traditionally made with thinly sliced beef. Shabu-shabu is usually served with tofu and vegetables. The dish is prepared by submerging a very thin slice of meat or a piece of vegetable in a pot of boiling water and swishing it back and forth several times. (The familiar swishing sound is where the dish gets its name. Shabu-shabu roughly translates to "swish-swish".) Cooked meat and vegetables are usually dipped in ponzu or "goma" (sesame seed) sauce before eating with a bowl of steamed white rice. Once the meat and vegetables have been eaten, leftover water from the pot is customarily combined with the remaining rice, and the resulting soup is usually eaten last: