Satsuma Shabu Shabu!

After the company annual staff camp, we went back to KL on Saturday, and reached Damansara around 7pm. While journey back here, we had decided to try the Japanese style steamboat mentioned by Ryan, so, to the restaurant we went!

The restaurant, known as Satsuma Shabu Shabu, is located at LG floor of Cineleisure, a cine-complex next to The Curve shopping mall. When approaching the restaurant, we stopped with hesitation, because there were no customer dinning inside! But since it's already decided, so we just walk in boldly, and greeted by the very cold air inside.

Its structure is similar to Sushi King or Genki Sushi, where foods are rotated along a conveyor belt, the difference is, they are mostly raw food, for your steamboat. And the table has several cooking stove, each for a single customer. So basically the idea is, you order a set of steamboat material from the menu, cook at your own stove, and get any extra food you like from the conveyor belt. It has 4 varieties of soup to choose from, Dashi, according to the waiter, this is a plain soup with little seasoning and taste, Miso, Kimchi and Sukiyaki, which is a soup with sweet taste, kinda taste like Teriyaki.















Beef set (around RM23++)















Seafood set (around RM20++)















Chicken set (around RM15++)

So I ordered a beef set, and chosen the miso soup. Our soups came first, and we turned on our own stove, with the switches at the side of the table, and started to boil them. Then each of our order came and we started to chow down the food! Only now we realized why it was so cold when we came, apparently the air condition was set to a low temperature so that when people started to steamboat, everyone won't feel so hot.















Miso soup















Kimchi soup















Sukiyaki soup

My beef set had around 5 slices of beef, 2 tofus, 2 types of mushroom, and some vegetable. It's not much, but still able to get my stomach full. The conveyor belt item priced at RM1.90, RM2.90, RM3.90 and RM4.90 if I'm not mistaken, the cheapest of course are those vegetable stuffs, meat is the most expensive. The longer I eat, the more salty the miso soup becomes! Should have chosen the dashi instead. Our kimchi soup was also getting spicier.

The food and price are still OK if you wanna have a small steamboat meal with friends. The shabu shabu style is quite popular in Japan and I think most of us teenagers will like it.















The cheating coupon!

One thing to mention, when entering the parking lot, we were given a coupon that suppose to have 20% discount on every conveyor belt item. We ordered 3 of it, and also showed them the coupon when paying, but somehow we just didn't get the discount as stated, dang, what kind of dirty trick is this? I don't really mind the 20%, but if you don't plan to give that discount, please don't even show them. What a cheap cheating tactic!