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Mix dipping sauces
Goma or ponzu. Add garlic, green onions, white radish, or hot drops.
Our printed card
The five steps, drawn.
Pick, cook, dip, slurp. Stuck? Ask us. That's what we're here for.
Step 1, up close
Mix your sauce.
1 · Your sauce
Sesame and peanut based. Creamy, nutty.
2 · Make it yours
Create a taste all your own with a variety of condiments, including pressed garlic, green onions and white radish. Like spicy? Ask for our hot drops!
The swish timer
Swish. Swish. Done.
Pick what's in your chopsticks
USDA Prime ribeye
Duke's time coming
Osaka, 1950s.
Shabu-shabu originated in Osaka during the 1950s but has since spread all across Japan and now to Fairfax County!
Words on the menu
Say it like a regular.
- Shabu shabu
- Japanese hot pot: thin slices of meat and vegetables swished in simmering broth.
- Kombu
- Dried kelp. It flavors the traditional broth.
- Goma
- Sesame. Ours is a sesame and peanut based dipping sauce.
- Ponzu
- A citrus soy sauce. Ours is citrus-based and bright.
- Udon
- Thick, chewy wheat noodles.
- Tonkotsu
- A rich broth made from pork bones.
- Sukiyaki
- A sweet soy style of hot pot, and the broth named after it.
Ready to swish?
Cal Shabu serves the following foods in raw form with the intent that you the consumer will be cooking them: beef, chicken, pork, salmon, shrimp, scallops and mussels. Consuming the above mentioned foods raw may increase your risk of food borne illness. Our sauces contain peanut and seed oil. It is your responsibility to discuss any of your possible food allergies with your server. Our ponzu sauce contains gluten. Our soup base contains gluten and fish.