Recently, I met one of my friends who went to the same high school, and have a dinner together. At the shopping mall, there are a lot of restaurants which I want to try someday, so it is hard to choose one. At the time, we a shabu-shabu restaurant.
Nowadays, Shabu-shabu (also spelled syabu-syabu) is regarded as one of the famouse Japanese foods, and the beginning of its history dates back to the 20th century. The first shabu-shabu restaurant "Suehiro" opened in Osaka, it is said that Suehiro named the kind of dish "Shabu-shabu," whici is onomatopoeic, being sound heard when sliced beef is dipped and waved in boiling stock. Shabu-shabu is known as Japanese dish, but the origins are Chinese hot pot, "shuan yang rou."
It's not only shabu-shabu, but there is a variety of hot pot dish (nabemono), for example; sukiyaki, oden, yosenabe, and yudofu. The reason why Japanese people tend to like that kind of dish that the Japanese common house had an irori, which is at the floor to heat the hot pot.
Also, Japanese people believe that to share a hot pot promote bonding. I think that the history built the society which values ties that are uniquely Japanese.
Hello Saori♪
ReplyDeleteDid you enjoy shabu-shabu with your friend?
You wrote about the origin of shabu-shabu and it is from China. Have you ever eaten Chinese Hot Pot(火鍋)? I've working at Chinese Hot Pot restaurant for a year, so I'm gonna give you some good information about it in case you have never tried it so far.
Chinese Hot Pot use soup which contains many kinds of Chinese herbal medicine(薬膳) instead of using chemicals, so the soup is really good for our body. Many Chinese Hot Pot restaurants use a pot with two dividers (or a pot which has a partition at the center) so you can enjoy two types of soup at once. Chinese people put meat and vegetables in the Hot Pot and that is the same as what Japanese people do when they eat shabu-shabu. But some chinese put in some vegetables which Japanese people usually do not put into shabu-shabu. For example, they put spinich, corn, pumpkin, a jew's-ear(kikurage), wide and thick sai fun noodles(thick harusame), sliced ham, coriander(phak chi) and frozen tofu. Chinese Hot Pot is healthy as well as shabu-shabu, so we do not have to mind even if we eat too much.
If you want to eat Chinese one, I'll tell you a good restaurant. And if you want some company, please let me know and we can have a wonderful Chinese Hot Pot experience together!
MEG.
Hello Megu!
ReplyDeleteSorry to late response.
Oh, I have never tried Chinese Hot Pot, and thank you so much for sharing interesting stroy about that. I wanna try Chinese one! Plese let me know a good restaurant.:)
Thanks,
Saori