I Love U Shabu-Shabu
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Hot off the shelf, this is a brand new restaurant that just opened its doors last Saturday. Situated just next to IOI Mall, location is definitely not a problem to I Love U Shabu-Shabu restaurant (perhaps their name might be! *LOL*). Saucer and I were scratching our heads thinking of what to eat one night, and this place came to mind.
*Note: Pardon the grainy/poor pictures, as this was an impromptu dinner and I didn’t have my trusty LX3 with me. Photographs here were taken using Sony Ericsson K530i.
I Love U Shabu-Shabu, Puchong
Upon entering the brand new premise, I was greeted with a vast space with tables and a kaiten belt full of food! Not something that I would expect from a steamboat place. Very tidy and clean. Tables are all situated next to the kaiten belt, for the convenience of customers. On the belt, there are plates and plates of all the steamboat items that you want, ranging from noodles, eggs, fish balls, vegetables, meat balls, and even scallop!
Raw food on kaiten belt
Seats at I Love U Shabu-Shabu
Of course, other than the items on the belt, this impressive spread greet you right at the entrance! Fresh seafood ranging from prawns, mussels, crabs, squids, clams and scallops! Lots and lots of them! And they’re refilled promptly. From the beginning til the end of my meal, I never saw this table running out of stock.
Fresh seafood
Mussels and clams
Other than the seafood, they serve BBQ meat as well, such as lamb, chicken, beef and pork. Not to mention some fried snacks like the spring rolls, noodles, rice and nuggets. Well, if you ask me, of course I won’t be paying attention to these food when I have a whole table of seafood waiting for me! *LOL*
Range of cooked food
Before long, I started to grab a plate and picked out my favourite seafood.
My plate 
What I love about this shabu-shabu concept compared to the normal steamboat is that everyone has an individual hot pot. These pots are powered by induction cooker, so they’re really safe. Also, by having individual pots, you don’t have to worry about hygiene (eating other people’s saliva ), and you get to pick your own soup base! 
There are 4 to choose from: ABC soup, chicken soup, herbal soup or tom yam soup. Me being a fan of spicy food, chose the tom yam base. The pot starting boiling in no time! Look at the bubbles!
Boiling hot pot
Another thing I love about this restaurant is that food is always within reach. Seriously. Just reach out your hand and grab something off the belt without even having to stand up. Isn’t that cool? *lazy* Other than reducing the crowd walking on the floor trying to grab food, this concept is also more hygienic. You just grab whichever plate of food that you want off the belt, then you cook and eat them. As opposed to having a giant buckets of balls at the counter where everyone fights to get his/her food. These cute plates on the belt are also covered! What a fine touch, I must say.
Boiling food
Without further ado, I put in my favourite food and watched them boil. Although I was truly excited with the concept and the food selection of the restaurant, I thought they needed to improve on the soup base though. The tom yam soup tasted very similar to that of Maggi tom yam stock that you can find from the supermarket. Also, it would be better if they have more variety of soups, such as kimchi or porridge!
Saucer enjoying his food
In the middle of our dinner, Saucer noticed that there were chicken wings at the counter in front and went to grab some. These wings were good! I think they’re honey-glazed BBQ wings, and they’re really yummy. Needless to say, they’re out in no time. But fear not, we waited for another 15 minutes and saw them being refilled.
Yummy honey chicken wings
Wait, so far I’ve only been talking about seafood, cooked food and fish balls! How about meat? Shabu-shabu will not be complete without some thinly sliced meat, don’t you agree? And true enough, there are waitresses carrying plates of thinly sliced meat around the restaurant, offering them to the patrons. The choice includes lamb, beef, chicken and pork.
Pork slices
Beef slices
I love this concept! The meat tray always came from the kitchen, and you could tell that the meat was newly sliced, from the dry and smooth outlook of it. Try leaving them on the table for a while and you could see the meat losing its vibrance and starting to become watery. Therefore, I believe there is a reason why they don’t place the meat on the buffet counter and leave it there. It will definitely become soggy and watery. Just ask the waitress to bring you the meat whenever you want to.
The meat slices were so thinly cut that it required only 3 dips in the boiling hot pot before it’s completely cooked. Delicious! For dessert, they have some Chinese pastries on the buffet counter, as well as ice-cream! Who doesn’t love ice-cream? Sadly, I was too full until I couldn’t even eat the ice-cream! How bad is that. *LOL*
For the opening promotion, I Love U Shabu-Shabu is giving a 10% discount off their price! The normal rate is RM26.80 nett/person, so after discount, it’s RM24.12 nett/person. I think it’s reasonable, considering the nice environment and hygienic food preparation. I would definitely return, especially if they have more soup base variety in the future.
I Love U Shabu-Shabu
No. 7 & 9, Ground Floor,
Jalan Merbah 1,
Bandar Puchong Jaya,
47100 Selangor.
Tel: 03-8076 8570
Email: [email protected]
Popularity: 8%
Comments (38)
1st !~!! Happy New Year !!
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Yay!!
happy new year witch
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Happy New Year!!!
“I lup chew too Shabu-Shabu”. Must be very precise and clear when inviting either friends or biz assoc to this place.
Bananaz: Can we meet up tonite for Shabu-Shabu dinner?
Mango:Where?
Bananaz: I lup chew.
Mango:Huh!Excuse me????
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Hahaha such a funny comment!
Mango: Aww…..
before anything, let me wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 first!!! wow, looks not bad, and hey i love that pork and beef slices, yummy yummy!!!
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Yea, those slices were good! Thin enough and not gamey…
pork slice in shabu shabu.. gosh….. make me drool la
Wait wait I’ll bring tissue to wipe of your drool… LOL
So many shabu shabu in Puchong! So this is the newest one? I’ve been to the other one at Bandar Puteri Puchong called Mei Zi Shabu Shabu. Quite nice too, especially their sauce.
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Yea I think this is one of the newest coz it just opened last 2 Saturday… Haven’t tried Mei Zi yet though .:)
LOL to bananaz’s comment! : D
Oh, btw, Happy New Year to you & Saucer!
Err, who is Lionel Ong? Is Lionel Ong = Hai Seong = Saucer?
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Yea you’re right! Lionel = Saucer!
awesome, just awesome!
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When are we going to have our group shabu shabu?
Not a big fan of shabu shabu, as I don’t take seafood.
But the variety is alot! ^_^
.-= Shingo T´s last blog ..10 honest facts about me =-.
Yea, seafood is aplenty.. but if you don’t like seafood, there’s sliced meat as well.
Looking at those seafood variety, RM 26.80 is so worth it leh! i am aiming at the scallops!
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Yea, not bad right the pricing.. If you go now I think there’s still 10% discount!
woah..what a great deal loh..with a price like dat.~ got read about this place there are good and bad..
guess their qc is not there 1..kekek
sometimes good some times bad~
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Hmm yea I guess it’s like that with new restaurants. Bound to have some QC problems at first… Maybe you can wait til it stabilizes first!
Happy belated New Year to you
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Happy belated new year to you too Ken!
I love shabu shabu most esp whenever we go to our favorite spa place where they have buffet with shabu shabu! nothing beats the freshly cooked food right infront of you =)
.-= ayie´s last blog ..Sanitas Per Aqua =-.
You’re right.. fresh food is the best!
Happy New Year!!!
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Happy belated new year to you!
Wow! Look at those fresh seafood! Really remind me of good time I was having in KK…
.-= jam´s last blog ..Exciting Li River Cruise! =-.
Oh yea.. I remember those gorgeous fresh seafood when I was in KK too….. sigh…
What a wonderful blog! Please continue this great work I will be sure to check back regularly…
Dear bro or sis, im lex here… i’m already resign i love you shabu-shabu more than 6 month.. 012-6853334 is my own phone number… is any booking please call 03-8076 8570… hope u all enjoy.. thx!!!
Ok, noted! Thanks for the information
there is new shabu shabu resturent in puchong area as well, near to green hotel
I just went there after reading this review.
You still have the choice between 4 types of soups, but it really doesn’t make much difference because it was extremely watered down. Literally, it looked like they served water with a slice of carrot, potato, tomato and onions (the small red ones) and called it ABC soup. I had to put in a whole load of chilli and soy sauce so my food would have a little flavour, and it was still tasteless. After half a pot, i asked for them to refill my pot with tomyam soup – and then had to double check if they were sure it was tomyam soup. It apparently was, and it was just as tasteless.
The belt only serves a couple selections of veg, one type of mushroom, and meatballs. Their raw section was the most disappointing, only fish, squid, crab, clam. The rest of it was left empty.
Cooked food section – everything was cold left uncovered in aircond. Fried rice was ok, but for 28 bucks i’m pretty sure you can get a damn good platter of fried rice. The chicken wings mentioned above weren’t restocked, when i arrived there were 3 pcs left. Only fried stuff were wantons. Didn’t try any because it was cold and hard. In fact, none of the food were restocked, other than the stuff on the belt. And as time progressed, they started serving them uncovered as well.
Sliced meat – they probably weren’t interested in making sure their customers come back again, so they didn’t offer anything. Have to ask yourself.
Drinks – i know, how can one screw this up right? The lipton dispensers were all empty, only drink available was coke. Which tasted suspiciously like Pepsi.
Only good side to this – aircond was on full blast, so it’s never hot. Ice cream was edible, though the usual steamboat buffet ice creams are better.
Note that this visit is on a Sunday night at about 9pm. There were only 3 tables occupied. I feel like i only ate 5 bucks of my money’s worth.
Verdict: If you want to try this place, I suggest you take a quick look at the food options before you pay for your seat at the entrance. And bring your own stock cubes for seasoning.
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Hopefully someone from their side would read this review and do something about it. Thanks again for sharing! 
Thank you for the updates on this place! My, I didn’t realize so much had changed since I last visited it. It sounds like the quality control needs a revamp.. So sorry to hear about your meagre experience
I LOVE shabu shabu. OMG. Now I’m starving!
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High 5! Nothing like watching your food being cooked in front of you