I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found what
I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.

Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
recipes? Cookbooks?

Thanks,

Somebody!

Somebody > wrote:

>I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found what
>I am looking for.

That's sad!

> I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
>people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
>like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.

>Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
>recipes? Cookbooks?

Shabu-shabu is one such method.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu-shabu

Steve

Somebody wrote:
> I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found what
> I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
> people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
> like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.
>
> Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find

The Korean restaurants in my neighborhood call it, in English, "Korean
Barbecue" or "Korean BBQ."

> recipes? Cookbooks?

In a Korean cookbook. "Flavours of Korea" by Marc and Kim Millon was
recommended to me by a Korean-American who said the dishes in it
reminded her of her grandmother's cooking.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Somebody!

-bwg

On Jul 12, 1:00 am, (Steve Pope) wrote:
> Somebody > wrote:
> >I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found what
> >I am looking for.
>
> That's sad!
>
> > I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
> >people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
> >like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.
> >Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
> >recipes? Cookbooks?
>
> Shabu-shabu is one such method.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu-shabu
>
> Steve

I posted about Korean BBQ too soon. Steve is right. Shabu Shabu is in
a skillet-like utensil. Korean BBQ is on a Hibachi or grill-like
utensil.

Steve Pope wrote:
> Somebody > wrote:
>
>
>>I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found what
>>I am looking for.
>
>
> That's sad!
>
>
>>I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
>>people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
>>like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.
>
>
>>Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
>>recipes? Cookbooks?
>
>
> Shabu-shabu is one such method.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu-shabu
>
> Steve

But shabu-shabu it meat and veggies, etc., cooked
in broth not grilled. (See your own wikipedia link!)

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

In article .com>,
-bwg > wrote:

> On Jul 12, 1:00 am, (Steve Pope) wrote:
> > Somebody > wrote:
> > >I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found
> > >what
> > >I am looking for.
> >
> > That's sad!
> >
> > > I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
> > >people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what
> > >looks
> > >like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice,
> > >etc.
> > >Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
> > >recipes? Cookbooks?
> >
> > Shabu-shabu is one such method.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu-shabu
> >
> > Steve
>
> I posted about Korean BBQ too soon. Steve is right. Shabu Shabu is in
> a skillet-like utensil. Korean BBQ is on a Hibachi or grill-like
> utensil.

I thought shabu shabu was hotpot cooking -- in broth. Not so?
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - story and
pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article .com>,
> -bwg > wrote:
>
> > On Jul 12, 1:00 am, (Steve Pope) wrote:
> > > Somebody > wrote:
> > > >I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found
> > > >what
> > > >I am looking for.
> > >
> > > That's sad!
> > >
> > > > I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
> > > >people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what
> > > >looks
> > > >like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice,
> > > >etc.
> > > >Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
> > > >recipes? Cookbooks?
> > >
> > > Shabu-shabu is one such method.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu-shabu
> > >
> > > Steve
> >
> > I posted about Korean BBQ too soon. Steve is right. Shabu Shabu is in
> > a skillet-like utensil. Korean BBQ is on a Hibachi or grill-like
> > utensil.
>
> I thought shabu shabu was hotpot cooking -- in broth. Not so?

Yes, but the broth is contained in something, and the something
sometimes looks like an electric skillet.

I think the question is unclear about the cooking method. Neither
Shabu Shabu (nor hot pot) nor Korean BBQ is really done "on something
that looks like an electric skillet." The former is in broth IN
something that may look like an electric skillet, and the latter is
done ON something that looks like a table-top grill.

-bwg
I am the bravest cowboy that ever rode the range.
-Leadbelly

> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - story and
> pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007

Kate Connally > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> Somebody > wrote:

>>>I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
>>>people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
>>>like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.

>>>Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
>>>recipes? Cookbooks?

>> Shabu-shabu is one such method.

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu-shabu

>But shabu-shabu it meat and veggies, etc., cooked
>in broth not grilled. (See your own wikipedia link!)

I do not see the word "grilled" in the description above.

Steve

Any chance it could what we know in France as a "pierrade" ? IE A hot
stone that you cook whatever you want to eat on ? The original ones
were heated in an oven , these days they are electric ? Could have
been an import from Vietnam I suppose

Steve

Somebody wrote:
> I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found
> what I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some made in Asia
> movies people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on
> what looks like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it
> with rice, etc.
>
> Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
> recipes? Cookbooks?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Somebody!

On Jul 11, 10:48 pm, "Somebody" > wrote:
> I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found what
> I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
> people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
> like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.
>
> Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
> recipes? Cookbooks?

I suspect you're referring to a griddle-type table cooking often seen
in Japanese cooking/restaurants. They are sometimes heated from a
fire below, but you may have seen an electric version. Google for
"teppan" or "teppan yaki" and see if that's what you are looking for.
If so, look for teppan yaki recipes but also for "okonomiyaki". -aem

Thanks for the info. However, none of the suggestions are right. I am going
to see if I can find the movie or movies that I have seen this in and do a
screen grab and then post it. Maybe that will help.

Thanks,

Robert

"Somebody" > scripsit in
:

> I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not
> found what I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some
> made in Asia movies people cooking small bits of meat and
> vegetables at the table on what looks like an electric skillet.
> The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.
>
> Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can
> find recipes? Cookbooks?

Sounds like Mongolian grill.

Anything like this?

http://www.ualberta.ca/~rxzhang/FooD/mongoliabody.htm

--

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

In article .com>,
-bwg > wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > In article .com>,
> > -bwg > wrote:

> > > I posted about Korean BBQ too soon. Steve is right. Shabu Shabu is in
> > > a skillet-like utensil. Korean BBQ is on a Hibachi or grill-like
> > > utensil.
> >
> > I thought shabu shabu was hotpot cooking -- in broth. Not so?
>
> Yes, but the broth is contained in something, and the something
> sometimes looks like an electric skillet.
>
> I think the question is unclear about the cooking method. Neither
> Shabu Shabu (nor hot pot) nor Korean BBQ is really done "on something
> that looks like an electric skillet." The former is in broth IN
> something that may look like an electric skillet, and the latter is
> done ON something that looks like a table-top grill.

Thanks, Barry. More knowledge to find room for amidst the decaying
brain celkls, :-)

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - story and
pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007

Steve Pope wrote:
> Kate Connally > wrote:
>
>
>>Steve Pope wrote:
>
>
>>>Somebody > wrote:
>
>
>>>>I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
>>>>people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
>>>>like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.
>
>
>>>>Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can find
>>>>recipes? Cookbooks?
>
>
>>>Shabu-shabu is one such method.
>
>
>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu-shabu
>
>
>>But shabu-shabu it meat and veggies, etc., cooked
>>in broth not grilled. (See your own wikipedia link!)
>
>
> I do not see the word "grilled" in the description above.
>
> Steve

Sorry, but I assumed (yeah, I know, don't say it)
that was what was meant since it say that it is
cooked in "something that looks like an electric
skillet". While, not exactly grilling, something
cooked in an electric skillet would be closer to being
grilled than something cooked in a shabu-shabu hot pot,
which is deep, not shallow like an electric skillet.
So from the description of the cooking vessel I
assumed something on the order of grilling/frying/sauteing.
So when you suggested that what the op was talking
about was shabu-shabu, I again assumed that you meant that
shabu-shabu was cooked in the same manner, which would be
in something that looks like an electric skillet. None of
the shabu-shabu I have ever had has been cooked in anything
remotely resembling an electric skillet - it's more similar
to a fondue pot.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

On Jul 12, 1:48?am, "Somebody" > wrote:
> I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not found what
> I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some made in Asia movies
> people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at the table on what looks
> like an electric skillet. The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.
>
> Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking?

Mongolian bbq? Which is not actually Mongolian but I think Taiwanese.

Sheldon Conan

Sheldon wrote:
> On Jul 12, 1:48?am, "Somebody" > wrote:
>> I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not
>> found what I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some made
>> in Asia movies people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at
>> the table on what looks like an electric skillet. The take what they
>> want and eat it with rice, etc.
>>
>> Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking?
>
> Mongolian bbq? Which is not actually Mongolian but I think Taiwanese.
>
> Sheldon Conan

I've been to a Mongolian BBQ place in California where you cook the
ingredients at the table yourself, but the "Mongolian" restaurant we
frequent here in the cesspool has a giant, round, hot, gas "skillet" manned
by a person who cooks your food for you. You still have the benefit of a
veggie buffet to choose your items from and you can choose chicken, beef or
pork for your meat items. There are also about 6 different sauces, chili
peppers and fresh garlic to add. We go to this Mongolian BBQ establishment
because it's inexpensive and despite the disparaging look of the place, it's
the best restaurant in town.

kili

Kate Connally > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> I do not see the word "grilled" in the description above.

>Sorry, but I assumed (yeah, I know, don't say it)
>that was what was meant since it say that it is
>cooked in "something that looks like an electric
>skillet". While, not exactly grilling, something
>cooked in an electric skillet would be closer to being
>grilled than something cooked in a shabu-shabu hot pot,
>which is deep, not shallow like an electric skillet.

Actually, the one time I had shabu-shabu, it used a fairily shallow,
rectangular, sterno-heated pot. Not deep like a fondue
or hot-pot, but not electric either.

>So from the description of the cooking vessel I
>assumed something on the order of grilling/frying/sauteing.

From the OP's futher description, shabu-shabu isn't right.
We await more information from the OP.

Steve

"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
...
> "Somebody" > scripsit in
> :
>
>> I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not
>> found what I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some
>> made in Asia movies people cooking small bits of meat and
>> vegetables at the table on what looks like an electric skillet.
>> The take what they want and eat it with rice, etc.
>>
>> Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking? Where I can
>> find recipes? Cookbooks?
>
> Sounds like Mongolian grill.
>
> Anything like this?
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~rxzhang/FooD/mongoliabody.htm
>
> --
>
> "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
> oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
> search for a superior moral justification for
> selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith


No that isn't table top. That is basically stir fry on a large flat griddle.
I have a place like that near me and while it is very good, that isn't close
even close to what I am looking for. Thanks though.

Somebody!

"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:56:44 -0700, Somebody wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info. However, none of the suggestions are right. I am
>> going
>> to see if I can find the movie or movies that I have seen this in and do
>> a
>> screen grab and then post it. Maybe that will help.
>
> Perhaps you're thinking Mongolian grill. Or a Ghengis Kahn
> Grill?
>
> I'm pretty sure we've covered everything except skillet-smores.
>
> Seriously though, I';ve eaten in platy of asian restaurants, and
> the fire is universally a petro-based jelly - never electric
> unless it's a full-scale, chef assisted Mongolian grill.
>
> Was there a buffet involved? What kinds of plates did they have
> before the rice?
>
> -sw


We are talking about in someone's home on their small dinning table. A
couple of bits of meat and some vegetables. Not stir fry and not done on a
$20,000 Mongolian grill. It just could have been cooking any easier. It is
possible that it wasn't electric but in the end I don't see where that
matters. They were cooking little bits of meat (bite size pieces) and bit
size pieces of vegetables and they had little bowls of white rice.

Somebody!

"kilikini" > wrote in message
...
> Sheldon wrote:
>> On Jul 12, 1:48?am, "Somebody" > wrote:
>>> I have looked for a couple of weeks on the internet and have not
>>> found what I am looking for. I have seen over the years in some made
>>> in Asia movies people cooking small bits of meat and vegetables at
>>> the table on what looks like an electric skillet. The take what they
>>> want and eat it with rice, etc.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know the name for this method of cooking?
>>
>> Mongolian bbq? Which is not actually Mongolian but I think Taiwanese.
>>
>> Sheldon Conan
>
> I've been to a Mongolian BBQ place in California where you cook the
> ingredients at the table yourself, but the "Mongolian" restaurant we
> frequent here in the cesspool has a giant, round, hot, gas "skillet"
> manned
> by a person who cooks your food for you. You still have the benefit of a
> veggie buffet to choose your items from and you can choose chicken, beef
> or
> pork for your meat items. There are also about 6 different sauces, chili
> peppers and fresh garlic to add. We go to this Mongolian BBQ
> establishment
> because it's inexpensive and despite the disparaging look of the place,
> it's
> the best restaurant in town.
>
> kili
>
>

Yah, we had one of these in Santa Rosa and it was neat being able to pick
what you wanted and they cooked it. But, that isn't even close as that it
more stir-fry than cooking little bits of meat and little bits of vegetables
without combining them, no sauces that I saw, no broth that I saw. Just
basically frying little bits of meat and little bits of vegetable. It is
possible the meat was marinated. I don't know. The segment in the movie
(which I haven't been able to find) was very short.

Somebody!

"Somebody" > scripsit in news:4697fe3b$0$14076
:

> We are talking about in someone's home on their small dinning table.

How loud was this dinning table?

Ok, have you ever considered that:

a. Somebody decided to serve food that way for no particular reason;

b. You could call the people who served you the food and ask them;

c. This obviously isn't clicking with anyone here.

--

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

On Jul 13, 6:07 pm, Michel Boucher > wrote:
> "Somebody" > scripsit in news:4697fe3b$0$14076
> :
>
> > We are talking about in someone's home on their small dinning table.
>
> How loud was this dinning table?
>
> Ok, have you ever considered that:
>
> a. Somebody decided to serve food that way for no particular reason;
>
> b. You could call the people who served you the food and ask them;
>
> c. This obviously isn't clicking with anyone here.

With his latest description it seems even clearer than before that
he's talking about a home-style variant of teppanyaki. That was
suggested before but he didn't look it up. -aem

"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
...
> "Somebody" > scripsit in news:4697fe3b$0$14076
> :
>
>> We are talking about in someone's home on their small dinning table.
>
> How loud was this dinning table?
>
> Ok, have you ever considered that:
>
> a. Somebody decided to serve food that way for no particular reason;
>
> b. You could call the people who served you the food and ask them;
>
> c. This obviously isn't clicking with anyone here.
>
> --
>
> "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
> oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
> search for a superior moral justification for
> selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith



Based on your comments I can see you didn't read my OP. This is something I
saw in an Asian movie. And you are correct this could very well be someone's
creation and unique to them or to very few and not have a real name. This is
the theory that I am going on now and am going to start playing around with
it and see where it goes.

Thanks,

Somebody!

"aem" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> On Jul 13, 6:07 pm, Michel Boucher > wrote:
>> "Somebody" > scripsit in news:4697fe3b$0$14076
>> :
>>
>> > We are talking about in someone's home on their small dinning table.
>>
>> How loud was this dinning table?
>>
>> Ok, have you ever considered that:
>>
>> a. Somebody decided to serve food that way for no particular reason;
>>
>> b. You could call the people who served you the food and ask them;
>>
>> c. This obviously isn't clicking with anyone here.
>
> With his latest description it seems even clearer than before that
> he's talking about a home-style variant of teppanyaki. That was
> suggested before but he didn't look it up. -aem
>


No I looked at it and while it is definitely the closest to what I am
looking for, It sounds at least from some descriptions like more of a dry
stir-fry and not where each thing is cooked by itself and then eaten one
thing at a time. It is highly possible that what I saw in the movies is a
derivative of this and I will spend some more time looking in to it.

Somebody!

"Somebody" > scripsit in
:

> No I looked at it and while it is definitely the closest to what I
> am looking for, It sounds at least from some descriptions like
> more of a dry stir-fry and not where each thing is cooked by
> itself and then eaten one thing at a time. It is highly possible
> that what I saw in the movies is a derivative of this and I will
> spend some more time looking in to it.

Actually, what you may have seen is a Chinese banquet. In a Chinese
banquet, morsels are prepared individually and served to guests one at
a time but it lasts a LONG time. My understanding is that this is not
restaurant fare. The best description is in Gloria Bley Miller's
Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. You might try looking that up at
your local library.

--

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
...
> "Somebody" > scripsit in
> :
>
>> No I looked at it and while it is definitely the closest to what I
>> am looking for, It sounds at least from some descriptions like
>> more of a dry stir-fry and not where each thing is cooked by
>> itself and then eaten one thing at a time. It is highly possible
>> that what I saw in the movies is a derivative of this and I will
>> spend some more time looking in to it.
>
> Actually, what you may have seen is a Chinese banquet. In a Chinese
> banquet, morsels are prepared individually and served to guests one at
> a time but it lasts a LONG time. My understanding is that this is not
> restaurant fare. The best description is in Gloria Bley Miller's
> Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. You might try looking that up at
> your local library.
>
> --
>
> "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
> oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
> search for a superior moral justification for
> selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith


Thanks. Will do.

Somebody!