Shabu-shabu

     Unfortunately I'm going to skip posting about the Turkish restaurant that we ate at on Sunday. We didn't take many pictures, and the few we did take were too dark to make the food look yummy. Instead of Kebab, I present, Shabu-Shabu!
     Shabu-shabu is one of the meals that is so healthy, yet so yummy, you can't stop eating. Jungwon suggested that we stop by a local restaurant for lunch yesterday. it had been a few weeks since we'd last been so I quickly agreed, and gorging was commenced.
     Shabu-shabu {샤브샤브} (the current-correct romanization from the Korean would be syabeu-syabeu) was a dish that came to Korea from Japan. The basic idea is for the restaurant to give it's patrons a pot of boiling broth, and enough food to feed them twice. Shabu-shabu usually has thinly sliced beef (it browns in just a few seconds in the boiling broth), some mushrooms, and tonnes of veggies. After the pot of goodies is eaten, the servers will bring some noodles, and freshen the broth a little. After the noodles they'll ladle out most of broth and throw in some seaweed mixed rice.
     The shabu-shabu that we ordered was beef and dumplings. Usually we have to shovel in the goodies ourselves once the pot begins to boil, but for this particular meal the pot came preloaded. Luckily this particular meal excluded the final rice course. After the cabbage salad, main course, and noodles, I don't think either of use could have touched the rice.
     Enough babbling. Here are some pictures from Monday's lunch.

shabushabu