Shabu- Shabu 101

May 20, 2017 (Sorry it's late!!)

Ok… just the next day after my first ever grill buffet experience, I had my first ever Shabu-Shabu. Where? At the “Healthy Shabu-Shabu” in Festival Mall. (by the way I’m from Laguna).

Since this is my first time ever, I am completely clueless with how the food tastes like and what food exactly is involved. Whenever I hear the term Shabu-Shabu, the only thing that comes to my mind is we will cook our food on the spot and eat it.

For those who will do it for the first time, I suggest that it’s better to get yourself familiar with the ingredients and with the shop that you will chose or chose to visit or if you know anyone who’s familiar with that, kindly ask for their advice and suggestions. Me, Thank God I have my eldest sister, Ate Davey who was actually craving for Shabu-Shabu that day. She just wanted me to experience it since I’m beginning to love food. 

My sister and me with the ingredients: mine was chicken breast and pork for her.

To start, first choose and go to your desired Shabu-Shabu Shop. If you don’t know any, ask Google..aahahaha..then, upon arrival, check the menu. In my experience in Healthy Shabu-Shabu, they serve the ingredients by set and the price depends on the meat that you will choose. On their menu, they have set for beef, pork, chicken, and seafood. Every set includes a plate of vegetables with noodles and oden, minced garlic, onion chives, 1 pc. egg and a specialty sauce. 

Chicken breasts.

Tenderloin Pork.

Once the ingredients was served, well the next thing is...cooking time!! So turn on the induction to heat the soup stocks. You can start putting your ingredients before or while the soup is boiling. For the meat, it is suggested that we mixed it with the egg instead of dipping the slice one by one before putting it in the soup. I'm not sure where my sister got that. (I'm sorry, I didn't made any research about it..heehhee...)

just mixing everything...ahahahaha....

My sister told me that to enjoy Shabu-Shabu, is first you eat all the ingredients: oden, vegetables, and meat . I'm not sure if it's correct to call the those as toppings but when you eat everything you put in the soup, you have to dip it first in the specialty sauce (which is mixed with minced garlic and onion chives) because basically, your food are all kinda tasteless. So I guess one of the aim of Shabu-Shabu is extracting the natural flavor of your fresh ingredients while eating it. I love that idea because I am completely sure that what I'm eating is real food and it's healthy. Then, the last thing you will enjoy is the flavorful soup. If I were to explain the soup that I made, it's almost taste like "nilagang baka"  or beef stew without the beef. In other words, I'll say that it's almost a beef stew but not or a failed beef stew because it has pechay, but it doesn't have beef.

I don't know what I'm doing, So I just mixed everything..haahahah...

This experience reminds me of my childhood game "Lutu-lutan". I really enjoy it. I'm sure in the future I'm gonna do it again and try it with other shops.

Wait! there's more! we have a free Japanese Halo-Halo for dessert!

I failed to capture my actual Halo-Halo. This photo posted is by someone else. I do not own it ok? but this is the Japanese Halo-Halo that is served in Healthy Shabu-Shabu.

That ends up my Shabu-Shabu 101. All I can say is it's a must try. I hope you enjoy reading!