Restaurant Name: Shabu Shabu House
Specialty: Hot dogs
Location: Little Tokyo, California
Company: Mother, Liwen Ai-yi, Peter, and Sharon
Overall Experience: weeeee delicious shabu shabu!




It was a cold and raining day in Los Angeles, one of the few, which made this dinner exceptional! You enter the restaurant and are greeted with a man in a cute chef outfit making fresh slices of beef! (look at that marble!) You are seated with a boiling pot of water into which you put the veggies into the water to flavor the water and to cook. There were two condiments that you could choose from to flavor your delicious beef: a ponzu sauce which you add grated radishes and a sesame sauce which you add grated garlic as well as green onions. What made this shabu shabu place was the freshly sliced beef. Instead of having the beef pre-sliced, these pieces of beef were extremely fresh and not dried out in any manner. Whenever I make, or assemble, homemade shabu shabu (hot pot), I would use broth, making the soup very pleasant to drink after the meal. However, in this case, the broth was filled with the fat that boiled out of the meat and not as flavorful as my homemade shabu shabu. Thus, I did not drink the broth. HOWEVER, the meat was extremely pleasant ( :