The noodles are often served with cooking shears. This is so the person eating them can cut them to make them shorter and easier to eat.
As stated before, Shabu-Shabu is a more complex dish. It starts off with broth and vegetables boiling infront of you. You are then given uncooked beef to put into the boiling broth. This is supposed to cook the beef quickly while giving it extra flavor. After the beef is finished being cooked, noodles are added to the soup to boil. This cooking method is rather fast. Once the noodles and the majority of the soup is finished, rice is then added to be stir-fried.
Food culture in Korea has always been deeply connected to the environment. Historically, the people of Korea have made use of everything they can eat in cooking. It is popular for foods and ingrediants that would often go wasted in the USA to be eaten here. For example, eating wild greens like mugwort is not uncommon to eat here. In fact, wild greens make up a large variety of side dishes and ingredients in staple foods. Korea's use of wild greens even inspired Japan to utilize more natural greens during a wartime food shortage.
Wild greens are not the only ingredient that Korea makes full use of. Korea is also very good about not wasting any part of an animal! Due to Korea's size and landscape, certain animals are hard to find. For example, cows are not very common here so most beef is either imported or incredibly expensive. This also means that it is important to utilize every part of the animal when eating. Ingredients like stomach, intestine, and liver and commonly used in cooking for this reason.
