A nice lunch at Swish Shabu-shabu

Waking up early to enjoy a Pre-Valentine's day lunch at Swish Shabu-shabu and sukiyaki, a little place in china town that features hot pot style cooking (think Asian Melting Pot), I must say it was a great place that provided constant attentive service
 the menu provides appetizers and bento boxes alongside the traditional shabu-shabu(cuts of meat and veggies cooked in a mild seaweed broth) and sukiyaki (meat and veggies cooked in a flavorful sauce similar to stir-fry style cooking).

The awesome server helped us choose from the pretty vast menu and we started off our lunch with  calamari which was tossed in a sweet chili sauce that was fant-abulous!(yes it deserved a combination of words)

It was a mesh of crunchy sweet-savory goodness that made me rethink how i eat my calamari, and no dipping sauce required. Infact leave the sauce at home kiddies,you'll only ruin perfection


During our saucy snack we went ahead and ordered the main dishes with me ordering a 6 oz portion of Kobe Rib-Eye to cook shabu-shabu style (seriously i think i'm going to run around yelling that from now on)
and my lovely fiance ordering Kobe chuck beef to cook sukiyaki  style.

                                             look at that marbling up there ...yum:)

                                                 The just as yummy chuck beef

                                               the shabu-shabu pot warming up

                                                  the wok contain the flavorful sukiyaki

The food came with accompaniments of noodles and a side seafood plate and two sauces, the first Ponzu sauce which was the color of soy sauce but light and citrus like was delicious and kind of the base of a yummy dipping sauce i created by adding things like green onion,garlic,and chili oil. The other sauce called Coma  was a yellowish sesame sauce that tasted like an ultra light peanut butter. both served as perfect dipping for our meats and veggies, I actually poured my Ponzu over my rice which was crazy good.

                                                    you have no idea how happy this food made me

                                             scallops and octopus i believe sprinkled with some chili powder and
                                               Coma sauce 

                                           beef cooked sukiyaki style and in the midst of being ravaged

                                              veggies and meat boiling in sukiyaki goodness

To sum up our whole meal, I'd have to say it came as close to authentic as I've ever come to finding, everything was light and held its own unique flavor it wasn't an overload of  heavy too salty or sweet sauces it was just simple components that melded together well no matter how one chooses to combine them.
I hope to make this place a frequented spot especially during lunch hour where the specials are well worth advertising
my Kobe Rib-Eye  which is usually about $40.00 for a small but filling portion is about $30.00 or less between 12-5 pm. We truly enjoyed our meal and from the time we walked in to the time we stepped out it was a truly enjoyable experience.