All You Can Eat - Shabushabu Onyasai

Restaurant Review by T. N.

Today I will introduce Shabushabu Onyasai (しゃぶしゃぶ温野菜), a Japanese style shabushabu restaurant. This restaurant is famous, so everyone knows it, and it is cheap and kind to the wallets of college students. The staff dress in Japanese clothes.This restaurant serves all you can eat. There are many menu items and courses, and  you can eat an all-you-can-eat course cheaply. Courses include pork and domestic chicken (￥2,780) and carefully selected beef and pork (￥2,980), Kuroge wagyu beef (￥4,480), marbled black angus(￥5,680), etc. Of course, it's all-you-can-drink too. If you order shabushabu, you can choose from two kinds of soup stock; Japanese beef soup stock with soy milk, which is popular with women, and sukiyaki soup stock, with kelp.

We ate Ume Shabu for a limited time (￥3,280). If you order Ume Shabu, you can eat plum soup stock and plum pepper. Ume Shabushabu is different form other courses that you can order. It features dark meat from the leg and pork loin. It you order it, you  can eat many kinds of vegetables, such as lettuce, green onions, Chinese cabbage, hackberry, potherb mustard and shiitake mushroom. There is also curry and noodles, and you can choose the amount of rice you want. You can also eat rice cake (mochi) in the shabushabu soup, and the rice cake softens and absorbs the soup stock.!

The all-you-can-drink course includes softdrinks (￥380) and alcohol (￥1,500). There are many alcohol drinks, such as beer, whisky, tea-based spirits, cocktails, makgeolli, wine, sake, shochu and plum wine, so you can't get tired of eating and drinking!! There are also many side items and desserts. The side items include quail eggs, kimchi, salted green soybeans (edamame).Desserts are Onyasai ice cream, ultimate almond jelly and cheese tart.  Onyasai doesn't have a take out menu. The staff are friendly, and noisy and the restaurant has a lively atmosphere, so you can't relax much at the table. But you can enjoy eating and drinking with your family or friends!!!

Shabushabu Onyasai (しゃぶしゃぶ温野菜)
Phone: 03-6872-1129
Address: 1-2 3-1 Minami Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Fuji Bld. 4F
Hours: 16:00～0:00
Access: 5 minutes walk from JR Ikebukuro Station
URL: http://www.onyasai.com/