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Healthy Shabu-Shabu

Posted by Claire |



My first time at Shabu-Shabu was with college friends. That was a few years back. I didn't enjoy it. My tastebuds didn't get the taste or flavor of it. So I never dared to go back.



More than a month ago, Rhea treated the HBs for dinner at the same restaurant. This time around I liked it.



Then today, we had lunch at the same restaurant with the same group of college friends I was with during my first time, and I loved it. I had a lot that my tummy feels hard as rock right now. I can still imagine the taste of the soup, the flavorful chicken and squid balls. I wanna go back.



Others think that Shabu-shabu is all about dumping all ingredients in one go. But there's a proper way to do it. Here goes:



1. Choose the items in your shabu-shabu platter - beef, chicken or seafood. Vegetable is a staple for every platter you order. The vegetable platter contains fresh homemade noodles, the fat and thin of noodles, vermicelli and egg noodle, Taiwan and Baguio petchay, beancurd, yam, black mushrooms and carrots.




2. Boil the soup at 150 degrees. When the soup starts boiling, it's time for the cooking to begin.


3. While waiting for this, you can start preparing your sauce. They will provide you with chopped onions, garlic, chili, spices and egg. What I do, I dump all the spices on the barbeque sauce, half of the chopped onions and garlic. I don't use the chili. The other half of the garlic and onion goes to the soup. To make the sauce thicker, I put the egg yolk in it, and the eggwhite on the soup.




4. Once the soup starts boiling, you may now start putting vegetables that takes a while to cook like corn and yam, and then the noodles. Next put in the meat, seafood. Vermicelli noodles, leafy vegetables, carrots, beancurd, meatballs should not be left boiling for more than 30 seconds.


5. You may put some of your sauce on the soup to add flavor.


6. Remember, eating and cooking may be done simultaneously. If you put the veggies last and the meat is not yet done, you may start with the veggies and so on.


And this is the happy bunch after a hearty meal at Healthy Shabu-Shabu.


Healthy Shabu-Shabu has branches in Podium, Bonifacio High Street, ATC, and SM North Edsa.

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