Friday 27 September 2019

Restaurant Review: Chien-Yen Shabu-Shabu (Taipei, Taiwan)


Chien-Yen Shabu Shabu

There are many hot pot (shabu-shabu) buffet (where you can select uncooked items from the counter, and then cook at your table) restaurants all over Taiwan and the first experience of our 35-man group of Filipino travel agents, after arrival in Taipei’s Taoyuan International Airport, was to have lunch in one such restaurant.   

Our amiable Eagle Tours local guide Vincent Chen brought us to one popular hot pot restaurant – Chien-Yen Shabu Shabu.
 
Reception Area


It had a first-class cafeteria ambiance, was clean and bright, with plenty of lighting, which is conventional for this type of restaurant.  

Then there’s the food, with every station packed full with literally hundreds of items to choose from, including many specialty vegetarian items.
 
Selecting the fresh ingredients for the hotpot

For those of us who wanted Shabu-Shabu (around NT$350-400 get all-you-can-eat hot pot, including tax and tip), they were presented with their individual hotpot with several choices for flavors. They could choose from 2 types of vegetarian broth, a variety of meats and fresh vegetables,  tofu, mushroom, taro, pumpkin, etc.
 
One of the food stations

Soup Station
Desserts
Chien-Yen also has many items to choose from, including various cooked dishes; and a wide selection of fish balls of various sorts, dumplings, shrimp, crab, Saba, squid salads, sashimi, sushi, appetizers, etc.. This huge buffet has it all. 


Appetizer Station

There are also meat carving stations for better quality meats, many side dishes, sushi, a variety of desserts (some vegetarian as well), fresh fruits,  plus a drink station where they make milk tea and various other drinks.

Overall Chien-Yen was great, the food was flavorful and the variety of dishes we chose from was excellent.  The price was reasonable. 

Chien-Yen Shabu Shabu: 2/F, No.41 Sec. 1, Zhonghua Road, Wanhua District,Taipei, Taiwan.  Tel: +886-33786000.  Open daily, 11 AM – 11 PM.

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