F8 Shabu Shabu
What is shabu shabu?
Shabu-shabu is a hot pot dish that I bet many of you have already know. It is a cuisine that was introduced to Japan in the 20th century with the opening of the restaurant "Suehiro" in Osaka where the name was invented. This simple hot pot dish become so popular that even the western country accepted this food. Filipino is one of the well known fans of shabu shabu that is why many of the restaurant here in the Philippines offered this hot pot dish. Unfortunately some of this restaurant is expensive. Sound hopeless right? But we are lucky that we found a shabu shabu dish that cost only 49 pesos. Yes you read it right, 49 pesos only!
The F8 Shabu Shabu
Let me intoduce to you the Shabu shabu F8. It's name "F8" comes from "Faith" and "Shabu Shabu" comes from the Japanese cuisine which is the main dish and the best seller of their restaurant. It can be located at Teresa St. Sta. Mesa, Manila near PUP main campus.
It offers different variety of food (different Asian cuisine) that will surely fits your taste and budget. Their food is a budget-friendly and can satisfy your cravings and appetite. For as low as P49.00 you can have a bowl of their delicious shabu shabu, and P99 for their special ramen.
Shabu shabu F8's menu includes:
Shabu Shabu ("cook-your-own" is their best seller)
Boodle Fight ( for 10 pax.)
Ramen
Bulalo
Shanghai
Gyoza
This restaurant is not just an ordinary eating place but it also gives a different experience like cooking your own shabu-shabu and the ambiance of the place is nice with their friendly and very approachable staffs especially the owner, ma'am karen :) During our experience and interview, we experience it and we found this place as comfortable as our own house. The owner also states that they will soon expand their Asian cuisine dishes which consists of Philippines, Japanese, and Chinese. Thai and Korea cuisine are their target to be included soon in their menu list.
We are hoping that soon you will visit this cool restaurant and we are promising that you will leave there happy and very satisfied. We are giving this restaurant a 5/5 rating.
