Thousand Cranes Shabu Shabu

As a Mother's Day treat, our family went to Thousand Cranes Shabu Shabu (Eastwood) for dinner. There was quite a crowd so we waited for about 20 minutes before being seated inside. The receptionist offered to take my cellphone number in case we wanted to go around the mall instead of waiting.

Thousand Cranes Shabu Shabu Eastwood Mall

We decided to order ahead. As an appetizer, we got the Mixed Sashimi (Php 350) and the Set A Menu for the main course. The set menu consisted of the meat, seafood, and vegetable shabu shabu ingredients, 6 glasses of fruit juice or shake and the fruit platter for dessert (Php 5,000).

Unlike other shabu shabu restaurants, in TCSS, each guest has their own hot pot. You get to create your own shabu shabu combination and your own level of spiciness, saltiness, etc. Each guest can also control the level of heat for their hotpot. This is good because I get to turn off my daughter's pot so her soup can have a chance to cool.

Our pots of soup were boiling when we sat down, the food came immediately after;

Veggie/noodle platter (2 kinds of noodles, corn, tofu, crab sticks, fish balls, carrots, button and shiitake mushrooms, fish cake and taro)

Seafood platter (Prawns, squid, fish fillet, oysters and seaweed)

 Assorted Meat Platter (Rib eye, Angus beef and pork)

Another seafood platter (crab and lobster)!

My pot with tofu, noodles, meat and carrots. The oysters sank to the bottom =)

Our table for 6 was so full! We had to cook several items at once just to make space for the sashimi. For our drinks, we get to choose from their selection of fresh fruit shakes/juices. I ordered the watermelon shake while my daughter had the orange juice. With 6 pots cooking at once, it can get really hot with all the steam rising up. Order some ice water to cool off. Guests can get a refill of the soup from the friendly waiters. I had 3 refills for my pot =)

The food is really good, I added the soy sauce and garlic to put more flavor to my pot. My favorite ingredient was the lobster tail. It took just a few minutes to cook it under a slow boil. My daughter loved the thick noodles, especially since she got to cook it herself. The meat platter was also delicious, the thin cut made it cook faster. The crabs were good but a bit hard to eat, you have to use your hands to get to the aligue. We had to use the mall's restrooms as the restaurant did not have their own. 

The fruit platter arrived promptly after the dishes were cleared. The plating was simple yet elegant;

The platter had mangoes, apples, watermelons, pineapples and oranges. The mangoes were gone in a second =)

I love TCSS, so does my daughter. Getting to cook her own food, she had a big appetite =) 

If you plan to dine here, be sure to arrive early. The wait list can get long as they have plenty of loyal customers. Dining alone? They have mini shabu shabus as well =)