Take a centuries-old dish where chunks of meat, fish and vegetables are cooked on the table in front of you, make the experience is akin to sitting inside a bubling bowl of Shabu broth and give it a swinging retro twist, and you’ve got Shabu-Ya! Streaming popular references including The Jetsons, 2001 A Space Oddessy, Sleeper, and Austin Powers, Architect Michael Kim Associates created a memorable space for a hip young Harvard-Square crowd with plenty of ‘mojo’. One blogger commented “It’s like eating shabu shabu at a freaky party …. in space!”
