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All-you-can-eat Japanese sushi restaurant.

Content.

Subject. Page.

- Shabu Shabu. 3.

- History of Sushi. 3.

- Culture in Japan. 4.

- Difference between Japanese and Dutch food. 4.



- Competition. 5.

- Location Shabu Shabu Rotterdam. 5.

- How it works. 5.

- Prices and opening times. 5.

- Menu card. 6.

- Wasabi. 7.

- Chopsticks. 7.

- Positive and negative points. 8.

- Internet. 8.

- Criticism. 8.

If you want to have an experience in a

Japanese all-you-can-eat restaurant, but

you don’t have enough money to go to

Japan yourself. Then Shabu Shabu is the

place to go to have a great time and to

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bring some of the Japanese culture in your

life.

Shabu Shabu.

Shabu Shabu in Rotterdam is the biggest Japanese all-you-can-eat restaurant. As

soon as you step over de doorway you feel a great Japanese atmosphere. But

there are more branches than only in Rotterdam. They have 5 in total. Shabu

Shabu in Amsterdam, Den Hague, Leiden, Zoetermeer and of course Rotterdam.

The branches in Rotterdam and Zoetermeer have a traditional Japanese sitting

area, it’s called a Tatemi. But you should be prepared to take your shoes of and

show your beautiful toes as you sit at a really low table. Take away food isn’t

possible in Shabu Shabu, you have to eat in the restaurant to enjoy the food.

Many customers want to know what Shabu Shabu actually means. Shabu Shabu

is a Japanese variant from the bouillon fondue, the meal looks like the so called

Sukiyaki. Where both of them contain meat, vegetable and are served with a

lovely dip sauce. People see it as a winter meal, but in Japan they eat it through

the whole year.

History of sushi.

We need to go back to the 4th century in Southeast Asia. There the sushi started

off. Rise and fish had many proteins. They put the fish in the rise so that the

natural substances kept good. For a couple of months the sushi was stored, when

they took it out the fish kept good but the rise they had to throw away. Overtime

this idea spread throughout China and later in the 8th century it was introduced

into Japan. Japan preferred to eat rice together with fish. In this way sushi

stopped being preserve food and started to become a cooking style.

In 1980’s sushi got much more attention because sushi became one of the

healthiest meals. Sushi bars have increased and making and selling sushi’s has

become more accessible to countries all over the world.

Culture in Japan.

The Japanese have developed a sophisticated cooking style. In these years

Japanese food has become fashionable and popular in the U.S., Europe and many

other areas. Dishes such as sushi, tempura (shrimp) and teriyaki are some of the

foods that are common and nearly everybody knows.

There is a way in Japan but also in other parts of the world to present sushi just

on a normal platter or on a Human sushi

platter what’s also called a Nyotaimori. It’s

a person who lies down on a table with

sushi on her for hours without moving. Most

of the times a female model lies down and

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very rare they make use of male model. People could take the sushi with

chopsticks of the body. Before serving the individual where the sushi will be put

on have to take a bath using a special fragrance-free soap and then step into a

bath with cold water to keep the body cool for the sushi. In some parts of the

world there is a law that there must be a layer of plastic or other materialbetween the sushi and the body of the woman or man.

Human sushi platter (Nyotaimori)

Difference between Japanese and Dutch food.

There is a huge difference between Japanese and Dutch food. Japanese food has

a big variation, they eat everything from fish to beef and from noodles to

potatoes. Sushi is a Japanese dish that’s very popular all over the world also in

the Netherlands. Japanese food is more complicated to make, well it depends

what you want to make. They do use more spices and hot peppers than what is in

the Dutch food.

Dutch food is simpler than Japanese food. When people think about Dutch food

they think about meat, potato and vegetables. When Dutch food is made they

don’t use many spices or hot pepper because most of the Dutch people can’t

take this. They start to cough and cry.

Dutch

food. Japanese food.

Competition.

Shabu Shabu is the hot spot in Rotterdam but they need to be careful because

they have a lot of competition in the all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant. The

restaurants are all similar so there is plenty of choice for which one you would

like to try. The other sushi all-you-can-eat restaurants in Rotterdam are called

Moshi Moshi and Sumo. These are close by the place of Shabu Shabu. So every

day they are running a competition to avoid bankruptcy.

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Location Shabu Shabu Rotterdam.

Shabu Shabu lies in the center of

Rotterdam on the West Blaak Street. The

parking space is very close by, just around

the corner. The parking lode is every day inthe week open for 24 hours. If you don’t

have a car it’s very easy to come there with

public transport. The Subway stops at the

station Beurs and from there on it’s

approximately 290 meters to get to Shabu

Shabu. Shabu Shabu is close to the mall of

Rotterdam so when you finish a wonderful and delicious meal you could shop

until you drop. Inside of Shabu Shabu.

How it works. The rules are very easy. You could sit two and a half hours to enjoy the menu

card. The order will be made right away and will be served on your table by the

wonderful waiters, not all the waiters are Japanese some are Chinese and some

are Vietnams. There are four rounds where you could order what you want.

During the lunch time you could order 8 dishes per round bit you can’t order

everything because some dishes are only for the dinner. During dinner time you

could order 5 dishes

per round. Wasting any dishes by not eating them is not tolerated in Shabu

Shabu. Per sushi it would cost €1,- and €3,- for the warm dishes. There are also

dishes which are so special that you have to pay extra for them.

Prices and opening times.

At Shabu Shabu you could enjoy a great lunch or dinner. The restaurant is open

from 12:00 – 23:00 o’clock but the kitchen times are different. The kitchen for the

lunch hour is open from Monday up and till Sunday. It’s open from 12-00 – 16:00

o’clock and it cost €16.95. There is a different price for the kids. Kids from 0 up

and till 3 years are free and kids from 4 up and till 10 years need to pay a price of

€8.50.

The kitchen for the dinner from Monday up and till Wednesday is open from

16:00 – 22:00 o’clock, after that you can’t order anything anymore. You could

stay until the restaurant closest and that’s at 23:00 o’clock. The cost for the

dinner on these days are €21.50. For kids from o up and till 3 years are free and

kids from 4 up and till 10 years have to pay €13.50.

The other dinner days from Thursday up and till Sunday are a bit moreexpensive. On Thursday and Sunday the kitchen is open from 16:00 – 22:00

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o’clock and it cost €23.80. On the days Friday and Saturday they have a different

arrangement, they have two parts with different times. The first part starts at

17:00 – 20:00 o’clock and the second part starts at 20:00 – 22:30 o’clock, after

that the kitchen will close. Also here kids have a different price, kids from 0 up

and till 3 years are free and kids from 4 up and till 10 years have to pay €13.50.

Menu card.

The menu card have an extensive amount of choice, there are in total 100

different dishes that you could choose of. The menu card give the people a

choice of sushi, salads, temaki hand roll, rice noodles soup and side orders.

Sushi is a Japanese dish consisting of cooked sushi rise

which contains other ingredients. The most common one

is fish but there are also sushi’s with egg, beef, avocado

and more ingredients. In a basic sushi role the followingingredient are in it; Nori, sushi rise, tezu and whatever

ingredient you would like to have in it, for example tuna.

Nori is also called seaweed, this is the outside of the

basic sushi role. Tezu isn’t actually an ingredient, it’s just

handy to put on their hands when they need to spread the rise so that the rise

will not stick on

their hands. Basic tuna sushi

role.

With the temaki hand role the ingredients are nearly the same as the basic sushirole. It could contain shrimp, avocado, octopus, eel and raw tuna and salmon. It

just depends which temaki hand role you choose. The hand role is a bigger than

the sushi and is easy to eat with your hands. A popular

role in America and Europe but not in Japan is the

California roll. This contains of the following ingredients;

avocado, kani kama this is an imitation of crab,

cucumber and tobiko. Tobiko is the Japanese word for

flying fish eggs. With of course sushi rise in the inside

and the seaweed also called Nori on the outside to hold

the sushi together. But Nori isn’t only good to hold yoursushi together but it’s also good for your skin so more nori means a more

beautiful skin.

California Temaki hand roll.

Rice noodles soup is actually the wrong name for it.

Because Shabu Shabu only serve noodles soup. The

noodles soup could contain different ingredients but

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at Shabu Shabu they have the following noodles soup; vegetarian, rib eye and

pork. With the famous vegetable been sprouts. Vegetarian noodles soup.

Wasabi.

Wasabi is a strong seasoning from the Japanese

kitchen.

It’s mostly used by sushi and other fish dishes.

Wasabi is

made out of the roots from the Wasabia japonica

plant, they have an outstanding green color so you

can’t miss it at al. The great thing of wasabi is that

it’s really sharp but that the sharpness doesn’tstay like with other seasonings such as chili

pepper or something even sharper.

As soon as you take a bit too much wasabi the

seasoning goes right away to your nose and gives a

strange feeling, after approximately one second

your eyes starts to produce water. And then the

sharpness is gone and you could start all over again.

Wasabi should be very finely grated before use or needs to be made in a paste.

Some wasabi they mix with other ingredients Wasabi roots.like horseradish (that’s a plant), mustard and food coloring to

make it as green as possible. Once the paste is prepared the

wasabi will lose its flavor within 15 minutes.

Chopsticks.

Chopsticks are tiny sticks used in pairs of equal length. It’s used during

traditional eating and in certain countries especially in China, Japan, Korea

Thailand and Vietnam. The first chopsticks were made in China. Chopsticks are

mostly made out of bamboo, plastic and various types of wood. The pair of sticks

you have to use in onehand between the

thumb and fingers to

pick up certain types of

food.

You need to be careful

because when you

brake the wooden

chopstick to get two

sticks there could be

some wood chips. You don’t want that in your mouth because that would be veryuncomfortable. To prevent wooden chips you need to rub the sticks together so

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the wooden chips will fall off. With the plastic chopsticks you don’t need to be

worried about the wooden chips. Because this is smooth. But for the restaurants

it’s easier to give the wooden chopsticks and through them away instead off

washing the plastic chopsticks over and over again. Of course if eating with

chopsticks isn’t your talent, you could ask for a fork.

Positive and negative points.

Shabu Shabu looks great when you walk over the doorstep, they lead you to your

table and explain the rules and how it works. The positive thing is that it reallyfeels as if you are in Japan. It’s nicely decorated with all different Japanese art on

the wall, on the table, just everywhere you look there is something Japanese. The

tables are already set up. And the food… The food is delicious, it makes your day

totally good. There is so many choice that it takes some time before you know

what you want.

Shabu Shabu still has some things where they could work on. I think that it’s a

big disappointment that the people don’t take your coat and hang it up. I know

that it isn’t a very expensive restaurant but it would be very polite to take the

customers coat. Another thing that they could improve is to give the waiters

more information about what for ingredients are in the dishes or what wasabi is

made of. When we ask what wasabi was made of they had to ask it to their

employees and then they came with the answer that it’s from a wasabi plant. Not

entirely correct but it was close. It’s also very rude that when you are just finish

with your sushi that they serve on a sushi plate, they right away crab it away to

clear your table that looks very rude. On one hand that is positive because when

there is a table for two there isn’t very much space to put everything on.

Internet.

There are many topics about the discussion which all-you-can-eat sushi

restaurant is nicer. But the people on the forum find the sushi delicious and want

to eat there every week. Like ‘Summerlove’ says: ‘I’m in love with sushi. I have

only tried Shabu Shabu in Rotterdam but I would love to try another sushi

restaurant does anybody knows which one is nicer than Shabu Shabu? And

‘Peaches’ says: ‘I don’t have any experience with another sushi restaurant, most

of the times I go to Shabu Shabu and it’s delicious. I think that it would be hard to

say which one is better. I think that Moshi Moshi is the next sushi all-you-can-eat

restaurant on my list.

Criticism.Shabu Shabu is a beautiful restaurant. It’s a whole new experience to eat there, it

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feels as if you are in Japan. The food is delicious. I never thought that Sushi would

be so nice, everything you should try for the first time. I’m not a fish person, I

don’t like fish at all but for this I would make an exception. Out of the five stars I

would give Shabu Shabu four. Because I think that the waiters could be

improved, they need to be friendlier and should know the ingredients in thedishes if somebody asks for it.

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