Shabu shabu is Japanese style hotpot where you dine around a portable burner, dipping thinly sliced pork or beef (as thinly as it can be sliced) into broth boiling in a clay pot for just a few seconds, swishing it around, swish swish, shabu shabu, and eat it over rice after dousing it in sauce.
Because I love shabu shabu I love onomatopoeia. They’re more concise and universal than puns. They’re always entertaining and obvious and don’t rely on things like sarcasm or cultural context.
Vroom, whoosh. Snap, crackle, pop. Meow. WOOF!
It’s so much fun to learn onomatopoeia across languages. In Japan, cats nyan. Dogs wan. Pigs buu buu and frogs kero.
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