THE DEFINING POINT
Download a hi-res version of this photo In the movie Lost in Translation, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson’s characters eat lunch at a shabu-shabu restaurant in Tokyo, prompting Murray to wonder rhetorically, “What kind of restaurant makes you cook your own food?” Sakura Shabu-Shabu in Huntington Beach, California is one such place, and despite the cinematic opinion just cited, the trendy West Coast eatery regularly fills its tables with patrons eager to create meals right at their own tables. Prepared by submerging thinly sliced beef and a savory blend of vegetables in a pot of boiling water, traditional shabu-shabu often ends up served alongside tofu, nori (edible seaweed), Chinese cabbage, chrysanthemum leaves, onions, carrots, and shiitake mushrooms. Giving diversity to its menu, Sakura Shabu-Shabu also tempts patrons with yakitori, an entree made with bite-size pieces of chicken cooked on a bamboo skewer
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THE DEFINING POINT
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