AYCE Chain Shabuya Opens Its First OC Restaurant

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • July 10, 2019
Ready to swish-swish. Photo by Edwin Goei There’s regular shabu-shabu restaurants, and then there’s Shabuya, the all-you-can-eat buffet chain of all the things you’d ever want to boil, simmer and swish in your own roiling vat of broth. I first...
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