Shabu Shabu

Shabu Shabu is a type of Japanese food in which you cook your food in a pot of boiling hot water, on the table in front of you. Typically, you cook a type of very thin meat (beef, chicken or even fish) and vegetables. The meet only needs to be cooked for a few seconds since it is so thin.

There is a Shabu Shabu place right outside my office called the "Boiling Pot". I can see the Boiling Pot from my office window and the place always intrigued me but since I almost always eat at my desk I had never gone in. One day, David was up here (and he is adventurous with food) so we went over and tried it. We really liked it and I decided that going forward I would only go to the boiling pot if I was with someone who had never been before. The reasons for this are as follows:

First, eating shabu shabu is more about the experience than the food. It is fun going with someone that has never experienced it before. While you are eating the steam from the pot is coming up in your face, then there is a whole procedure on how you cook everything and then how you eat it, also, you have to customize the sauce to your liking. Plus, it's a bit pricey for a regular lunch so you want to make the most of your experience.

Brian, Larry and I went for Shabu Shabu today so I could take a break from the Treo problems. Today, Larry was the newbie. Watch these video's as Larry tries to grab the noodles out of his "Boiling Pot"
Here's Brian------------->

Video #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUjluKeN5Dw
Video #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBuHZ19RFI

By the way: Only Larry would indulge me and let me take this video. He is the best!. Watching Larry pick up these noodles is sort of like waiting for a Treo to sync. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes you think you have just about made and alas you don't. Dora and Kevin will appreciate my comments in the video "Try it again", "Try it again" LOL.