Shabu Shabu

So, this week I didn't really plan much.  I tried going to an NBA playoff game, but that obviously didn't work out.  I work about a mile from Staples Center and the game had already started when I got off work.  This was game 5 of the Western Conference Finals- Lakers V Nuggets.   I figured I could get there right around half time, and at half time I might be able to get in for 50 bucks or so. 

That was not the case.  Tickets were still going for $250, $200 and crazy things like that.  For one half of basketball. The cheapest I found was in the upper bowl for $100.  I didn't make it in.

My new thing for last week ended up being not too exciting.  It was

 trying a food I'd never had from Japan called Shabu Shabu.  The restaurant boils a pot of water on your table and gives you a tray of vegetables, noodles and your choice of meet.  We got beef.  It's really thinly sliced.  You take your sticks and put the meet in the boiling water for like 4 seconds and its cooked.  All you do is change the col

or from red to brown and that's it.  It's good food.  And probably healthy because the Japanese live to like 140.  

I didn't take this picture, but this is what it looks like.