9292 Shabu — Restaurant in Annandale

I dined out here on a Friday night with my vegetarian friend, and to our surprise it wasn’t busy. The price is the same regardless of if you get meat or not, but the selection of veggies at the buffet makes up for this. The meat is all you can eat and the server was attentive and quick to bring me more when I asked. We both got the spicy veggie broth, and it was lacking in flavor. Luckily they have an amazing sauce bar so we could season it to our liking. I highly recommend using the sesame paste when making your own sauce. Some of my favorite buffet items were the bok choy, watercress, chopped mushroom stems, crab meat (they’re wrapped in plastic, so make sure you take them off), Korean sweet potato, pumpkin, and tteokbokki.

I also want to give a shout out to our server that evening. He was amazing and gave us lots of great pointers since it was our first time. I wish we got his name, but I hope we see him next...

Tldr this place is phenomenal. Clean great service good quality for protein and veggies

I am a hot pot fiend. I have literally tried and eaten at every single hot pot place in the DMV. So when it comes to ayce hot pot trust what I have to say.

This place is probably the best. It's clean. the staff are responsible. The veggies are ample as are the protein selections.

My wife and I go here at least once a month and we have taken our friends here too. They liked it as well.

Two things I wished this place had are crown daisy/chrysanthemum and shacha. Crown daisy is a classic for hot pot that I've always loved and shacha is 🤌🏼

Also for the mala it has a more pronounced spicy broad bean flavor than Sichuan peppercorns. Spicy broad bean is the the stuff used...

My new favorite shabu shabu now overtaking the previous favorite Gom shabu shabu. One reason, the vegetable, sides and condiment bar. If you just want meat and sauce, there is nothing wrong with Gom...it's good. But if you are like me and want a variety of ingredients in that soup with different soup base options...this is the place. It's all about the sides! My vegetable soup base had so much umami even my wife was surprised because I didn't have to add any sauce to make it savoury. The service was amazing. One thing I don't like about Gom is having to ask for more vegetables, they kind of make you feel like you're inconveniencing them because they are busy. At 9292 shabu the manager made time to say hi and they were happy to serve you. The...