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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| One of the food stations |
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| Soup Station |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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. 
It had a first-class cafeteria
ambiance, was clean and bright, with plenty of lighting, which is conventional
for this type of restaurant. 
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. 
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.
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