Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is a Japanese dish that is prepared and served in the Japanese hot pot style.

It consists of meat (usually thinly sauced beef) which is slowly cooked and shimmered at the table, alongside vegetables and other ingredients, in a shallow iron pot that is mixed with soya sauce, sugar and mirin. The ingredients are usually dipped in a small bowl of raw, beaten eggs after being cooked in a pot and then eaten.

Popular ingredients do include:
 * Tofu
 * Leafy vegetables such as Chinese cabbage and shungiku
 * Mushrooms such as shiitake
 * Jelly noodles

Preparations
Sukiyaki is a one pot dish (nabemono) that was developed during the Meiji era. Different regions have different ways of preparing sukiyaki. There are two main styles, the Kanto style from eastern Japan and Kansai style from western Japan. In the Kanto style, warishita (a mixture of sake, soy sauce, sugar, mirin and dashi) is poured and heated in a pot, then meat, vegetables and other ingredients are added and simmered together. In Kansai-style sukiyaki, meat is heated in the pot first. When the meat is almost cooked, sugar, sake and soy sauce are added, then vegetables and other ingredients are added last. The vegetables and meat used are also different between the two styles. Because beef was expensive in the past, the use of pork was common in northern and eastern regions. Other ingredients added to modern sukiyaki include chicken (tori-suki), fish (uo-suki), udon noodles (udon-suki), negi, shiitake mushrooms, shirataki and slightly grilled tofu. In both the Kanto and Kansai styles, raw eggs are used as a dipping sauce when eating sukiyaki and steamed rice with black sesame seeds is also served.

​Shabu-shabu
Shabu-shabu is a Japanese nabemono hotpot dish of thinly sliced meat and vegetables boiled in water. The term is onomatopoeic, derived from the sound emitted when the ingredients are stirred in the cooking pot and served with dipping sauces. The food is cooked piece by piece by the diner at the table. Shabu-shabu is considered to be more savory and less sweet than sukiyaki.

History
Most of the Tampines Primary School friends since April 2009 as the Operations Support Officers, together with Angeline Wong, Teo Pei Ling, Kho Qi Qin and Lynette Tay under the Badminton team, they had however bought sukiyaki and Shabu-Shabu. The Lim family, Saw Yan Naung, Hu Che Lun, Jasper Cheong and JingXuan Phoebe had also ate sukiyaki in July 2009, at my house.