Restaurant: Swish Shabu, Boston, MA

Hello, world. I disappeared for a while there :( 

In short, I had a lot of work stuff, traveled to two weddings (totaling over 60 hours of airport and airplane time) and also had to recover from a horrible 2 week long flu. Phew!

Anyways, quick pictures from a trip to Swish Shabu. Swish is hands down my favorite shabu shabu place in Boston. I've written about shabu shabu before, here.

Restaurant: Shabu Zen, Allston, MA

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Shabu Zen is a "hot pot" restaurant in Allston. Hot pot is a style of cooking/eating that is common in a few Asian countries, especially Japan and China. Shabu Zen is more Japanese than Chinese, in my opinion. Most of the broths at Shabu Zen don't have a lot of Chinese herbs/spices, except the Chinese Herbal broth (duh). In addition to hot pot, they have sushi and other entrees, but the majority of the people who frequent this restaurant will have the hot pot.