It’s the experience of cooking your own food, fresh and right at the dining table, coupled with superb taste of Chinese cooking tradition than makes shabu-shabu a hit to many food enthusiasts.
Eric Ang, executive chef of Chinese Royale, a shabu-shabu restaurant at Crossroads, Banilad, shared that the unique Chinese food tradition now enjoyed by Filipinos has legendary roots. “Genghis Khan, the great Mongol conqueror, devised a way to efficiently and quickly feed his army.”
Now, shabu-shabu becomes a relaxing food experience where diners come together in a table while boiling fresh vegetables, thinly sliced pork, beef, lamp, chicken and fish meat as well as meat, mushroom, and shrimp balls in a pan of stock, said Ang.
Generous servings
In Chinese Royale, there is a of four different stocks: Satay beef, pork with sweet-corn, chicken soup and congee. On the menu is a wide list of set platters with generous servings. The Royal Ace (P1,500 recommended for four to five persons) for example already comes with three fish, lobster, scallop balls, three fish tofu, four fish rolls, pork, beef slices, chicken and fish fillet, two shrimps, crab, squid, one bowl of sotanghon and noodles.
There’s a meat platter for the carnivores and a vegetable platter for plant eaters. But whatever the choice is, surely, it’s a healthy culinary experience. Ang assured they don’t put any MSG in their food.
Children as well as adults love the interactive dining experience, he said.
“You know that what you are getting is fresh because you can really see it. We can’t serve poor quality meat because the color will really show,” he said. (JSC/Sun.Star Cebu)
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