Coming from Los Angeles, with places like little Tokyo, Koreatown and Chinatown, shabu shabu is nothing new to me.
I've tried a few of the shabu shabu places here in Las Vegas over the last few months and by far this is one of my favorites.
First off, there's plenty of parking due to the large shopping area. The Kojies lies right in the southwest corner of the lot next to a comic book store.
The decor is very plain and simple with a clean and artistic feel to the restaurant. With about 20 seats in the whole restaurant, you definitely have to make sure you come at the right time.
Your shabu shabu pot comes in 2 steps. First up being your choice of protein. They also have a salmon choice and an all vegetable choice as well. Once you pick your protein from ribeye, to pork to the Koji house special, you then move on to your choice of broth.
You have a choice of a spicy broth, a clear broth, and the tonkatsu broth.
You also get your choice of two dipping sauces. One of them being the ponzu which is my favorite.
Along with the pot and comes a vegetable medley with carrots noodles broccoli and lettuce for dipping. You also get your choice of white or brown rice and chopped green onions and garlic. If you want to kick it up a notch go ahead and ask for the house chili sauce which is made from ghost peppers.
The pot is placed on electric burner right in front of you and the fun then begins. The staff was amazingly attentive. From everything from checking to make sure our dips and broth were always full to make me sure our drinks for always refilled.
Prices were pretty decent. Around $36 for the two of us, one with the meat protein and the other one with an all vegetable and one drink.
I definitely recommend this as one of the better shabu shabu places here in Vegas.