Feel like in Asia / Czuć się jak w Azji #18 - Shabu shabu (WAW)

Feel like in Asia / Czuć się jak w Azji #18 - Shabu shabu (WAW)

During the winter time, the most popular place you meet in Asia is probablly "huoguo" hotpot restaurants. I miss that time back home, meeting friends in cold winter time for different delicious hotpots with lots of laughter.

However, in Poland I usually make hotpot myself and invite guests but this time I found a place in Warsaw - Shabu shabu.

Actually the name shabu shabu is from Japanese, and it's only a type of hotpot, which was brought back from China to Japan.

Let's take a look of the restaurant itself...

Very familiar basic hotpot equipment setting with tables...

On the wall there are some drawings to show you how to eat hotpot, nice!

Menu!

After checking at the menu I decided just to try the basic set with beef.

Broth...

Here's the set for hotpot!

Doesn't look so much actually...

Time to boil the food!

And then dipping in this prepared sauce. Actually the sauce is something new for me, I think it's Vietnamese style hotpot.

Boiled food is the most healthy!!!

Shabu shabu has many choices and you can also order and add any ingredients they provide separately. After the testing, it's maybe more like Vietnamese hotpot which I have never tasted before so I don't know if it was the right taste. I can only say that it wasn't my taste. Next to shabu shabu is a Vietnamese bar and the owner is the same Vietnamese. If you have never tried hotpot before, it's worth to give it a try to feel how we meet people and eat hotpot in Asia!

For those who like to invite guests and cook at home, welcome for further reading at Duncan's Home Kitchen because when the next hotpot season comes I will try to post a detailed post in Polish how to eat and make hotpot yourself at home!