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| - Having had eaten at many Japanese shabu shabu places in the Bay Area and in Asia, I must say I was rather disappointed by Swish. I ordered the 6oz 3 meat sampler shabu which consisted of prime rib eye, Kobe chuck and Kobe rib eye. The meats were pretty decent with the Kobe rib eye being very nicely marbled with fat but they were sliced paper thin - not that I prefer thick cuts but this was beyond thin - nearly transparent and stuck together when I tried transporting the meat to the pot.
The meat was really the only thing about my meal that was decent because all other ingredients were just not quite the quality I had expected. For instance, they didn't have the pork bone broth and I don't like miso broth so I got the clear broth with some pieces of dried seaweed (kombu). That was fine but then the plate of veggies came with a bunch of napa cabbage (filler), several thinly sliced tofu (equivalent to two regular cubes), a few broccoli florets, one sliced button mushrooms (instead of enoki, let alone shitake) and some sliced carrots that looked brown and old and tasted bad. The ponzu dipping sauce was way too watered down without much flavor.
I was given a quarter of a yellow onion and green onion which was nothing I have seen before and I put them in the broth which made the broth tasted worse than bland. It turned into a strange onion flavored soup.
I didn't want udon, which came with the meal, so I asked for the rice/glass noodle and had to pay extra $2.50 but that wasn't the issue. The issue was that their glass noodle's texture was really weird - it was a bit thick and crinkly and crunchy. It came pre-cooked and when I transferred to the pot, the texture did not change or soften or straighten after cooking for some time. I tried a strand and I had to spit it out because it was bizarrely crunchy and tasted strange as if I was chewing on something utterly superficial like a plastic tube. I had to tell the waitress that I can't eat that and she was kind enough to take it off the bill.
In my life of eating at shabu shabu / hot pot places, I have never encountered anything of lesser quality for the price paid, which surprised me because I did no expect this area near Vegas Chinatown to command this kind of price with this kind of questionable quality. Perhaps people here don't mind. The photos I have taken seemed decent but the flavor and ingredients were laughable.
I really hate to give this place a bad rating because its high rating on Yelp was the reason I came here but I was never this disappointed.
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