Homemade Sea Bug Shabu Shabu with Greens from My Garden

Have you ever had Shabu - Shabu? That's one Japanese dish I really love. Unfortunately, no restaurant has it on their menu where I live. To get one I'll have to be on a daytrip in Adam or the other huge cities like Rotterdam or Leiden on rainy days.

If there's one thing I miss about living in the Philippines it was that I was 15 minutes away from any kind of cuisine I may have a craving of. I live in the heart of Makati and if i feel like having some Japanese, Korean, Chinese or Vietnamese food - all I have to do is hail a cab or catch the metro rail transit and head to either Rockwell or those restaurants at The Fort or anywhere in Mckinley or drive to Greenbelt or the Mall of Asia. I was also chubby back then - from too much eating. Well, you know what they say - YOLO so try everything you feel like trying. It won't hurt and its better than having regrets and saying " I should have' ~ would have ~ done this and that" when you get older.

It was raining the other day and I was craving for shabu shabu. Originally, this Japanese Hotspot dish means having thinly sliced beef or pork and vegetables to dip in a hot soup they call dashi and tsuyu. I didn't have any of those and I have always admitted am no longer a fan of beef and pork - thinly sliced or not. Chinese cabbage, onion, tofu and shiitake or any mushrooms is also very very essential in making the soup for the shabu shabu. I didn't have a Chinese cabbage nor any of the other usual vegetables you could find in one shabu shabu from a restaurant but I had recently harvested the ramps, spinach and sugar snaps from my garden. The rest were bought from the store and were in the fridge.

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