OM-G4 at TENKA JAPANESE SHABU SHABU

Eating out is the best way to catch up with old friends and just chat away. From the simplest topic down to some serious life decisions, nothing beats a bunch of food and waking up those sleeping brain cells.

Japanese Soup

The first to do in all shabu-shabu joint, choose your soup base. A and I narrowed it to Japanese Pork Bone Soup and Sukiyaki Soup. The Japanese Pork Bone Soup is somewhere near to our version of “sinigang” with less tamarind taste. The Sukiyaki Soup is your sweet and salty mix more like your well diluted teriyaki sauce. Personally, I like the JPBS better.

Fresh Meat

You’ve got plenty to choose from, they have imported lamb meat, U.S. fat meat, white veal\sliced meat, goto, pork tito, large intestines, pork blood, pork isaw, intestine with egg, sliced chicken, golden mushroom pork roll, golden mushroom beef roll, Japanese dolphin meat, sliced beef and fresh beef paste. They have intriguing names so we can’t help but to ask for what is what. =) The intestine with egg is basically an egg wrapped with intestine and the Japanese dolphin meat is a pork sliced serving. The serving per plate is about 3-5 thin slices of meat so it is a good thing that it is UNLIMITED.

Seafood

9 choices here. They have prawns served by 3 per plate, sliced baby cuttlefish, sea cucumber, crab stick, fish fillet, fresh oyster, salmon fish head, mussel, fresh fish paste and fish lips (quite bothering really). We only availed the prawns here.

CRAB ROE (pointy) and Mozzarella Ball (round)

Specialty

17 choices in total. We tried the Japanese tofu and we really love the silk texture that melts in your mouth. Shrimp wanton, just fine. Crab Roe Bun, A loved this one and the mozzarella Cheese, originally ordered by A but I loved it more.

Vegetables

Shabu-shabu is a healthy menu choice and veggies are a must. Lucky for them, we’re not the healthy minded ones. Well, oh yeah, we ordered Japanese mushroom for the sake of ordering one.

SALMON AND SQUID cooked Kilawin style

Others

Others are noodle selection. They have ala carte dishes such as toki and gyoza among others. They also have desserts, fruits, other side dishes such as Kimchi, salmon and swuid kilawin which are really tasty. Of course, ice cream from Big Scoop. =)

GYOZA. Nothing spacial, I suggest you try other ala carte choices. =)

Chicken TOKI. The sauce is too sweet for me.

Beverages

They offer a few beverages: juices and shakes with your usual flavors and oh, beers are available.

The Side Story...

The attendants are really helpful in the entire question we have during our order time. He answers everything we asked even laughing with us as we decide which to order first and which are the best tasting among the menu selection.