There's this awesome food I love to eat, and I've heard it's actually Japanese. Everybody calls it shabu shabu, apparently based on the sound the meat makes when it's cooking, but I don't know the food's official name.
You get a big pot with soup, green “sticks” (onions? shoots? I don't know what they are), mushrooms, potatoes, etc.
You also get some heavy noodles and a plate (or more) of thinly-cut raw beef. When the soup is hot enough, you boil the meat and eventually the noodles.
When you finish eating all of that, they take the pot and pour the soup into a bowl for you except for one spoonful of the broth. Then they cook rice in the pot and bring it back and you can eat it with the soup.
I've never had rice as good as this. My favorite parts are the rice and the meat, though the potatoes and the noodles are good, too.
Even though it involves sitting on the floor, I have to say that eating at this place after a long day's work just really hits the spot.
You get a big pot with soup, green “sticks” (onions? shoots? I don't know what they are), mushrooms, potatoes, etc.
You also get some heavy noodles and a plate (or more) of thinly-cut raw beef. When the soup is hot enough, you boil the meat and eventually the noodles.
When you finish eating all of that, they take the pot and pour the soup into a bowl for you except for one spoonful of the broth. Then they cook rice in the pot and bring it back and you can eat it with the soup.
I've never had rice as good as this. My favorite parts are the rice and the meat, though the potatoes and the noodles are good, too.
Even though it involves sitting on the floor, I have to say that eating at this place after a long day's work just really hits the spot.
