Bwuoo?

[kyburg]

If you want contents, go read a box of cereal. That's all you'd get out of me right now.

Tire on car? Has nail. Flat as pancake. Not as tasty. Appointment at repair shop tomorrow AM. Spent this evening getting cat litter, CSA box and dinner. Dinner was sukiyaki at Shinsengumi, and for $30, you can feed both of us hoity-toity Japanese shabu-shabu there.

Oh, the egg thing? Poach one in sukiyaki broth sometime - teh yummie.

*hack* Still have cough - and still tired. See you tomorrow AM.

*fwumping*

Comments

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

A restarant called Shinsengumi? Wow. If you know Japanese history that's just...very odd.

[digitaldraco.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinsengumi

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

Yep. That's them.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

It's even odder when you get in there, and all the waitpeople are dressed like ninjas.

No...I'm not kidding. The full hoods aren't practical, but the black pajamas and headscarves are -

They have two restaurants out here - a yakitori place, which is the bench for it, and this new shabu shabu spot which used to be owned by someone else.

Oh, drive around here. The things they name places where you consume food is something to behold.

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

I've actually heard of that ninja restarant. Sounds like a fun place.

[digitaldraco.livejournal.com]

Feel better/recover soon. :)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

You want to do faire, don't you? I ran across my garb in the closet the other day -

[digitaldraco.livejournal.com]

We're aiming for Saturday April 29th. Most of us won't be in garb but don't let that stop you (not that I think it would). :)

[bleudaisy.livejournal.com]

The only time I've had shabu shabu was when I visited LA about two years ago and I went to Yoshi's (Shabu shabu Garden) restaurant on Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks. Is that a good one? I thought it was quite tasty, but since that's the only shabu shabu I've had I really didn't have much to compare it against.

Is this a good place to go or should I check out a different restaurant on my next visit?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

If you liked it - feel free to go back! But there are others, and for my money, this one near home has been the best so far. Other good places are in Little Tokyo - just keep an eye on health card posted (anything less than an "A" for shabu-shabu or sushi, for that matter, is big bad juju) - and you should be fine!

[muimi07.livejournal.com]

YAY for Shinsengumi! :9 Mm, god I love that spot. I hope I can find some way to get down there for dinner during AX.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Talk to catsonmars - there's usually an "after-AX" dinner there every year.

[muimi07.livejournal.com]

Won't be around for the "post-AX" Chiriket, unfortunately. I'll just be down for Friday, Saturday and most of Sunday since work is being a tard and making me work on Monday even though Tuesday is a holiday :P

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

?

Tards, indeeed. Tards, tards, tards.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Was ist "shabu-shabu"?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

It's the term used for something you cook at your table in boiling broth/soup - you can either begin with a traditional nabe (which is water with some konbu, perhaps some bonito flakes and some mushrooms, likely some spring onion) and while it boils on the burner at your table, you dip a plateful of morsels into it to cook it.

When your plate is empty, you then consume the soup.

This is a natural for sukiyaki - which is basically a sweet beef and noodle soup made interesting with tofu, mushrooms, cabbage, carrots and so on.