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Today, we bring you another blog post from Motoko, JapanesePod101.com lesson creator, host and Office Party Planner! Motoko will be sharing more bilingual posts on our blog, so check back often and leave a comment!

Hi everyone, Motoko here!

Today I’d like to tell you about the welcome party we held recently. This spring, we welcomed four new team members: Ice, Gabriella, Paloma, and Raul. To introduce them briefly, Ice is a member of the video team; Gabriella and Paloma work on content creation; and Raul is a member of our IT team.

The welcome party was held at a Japanese shabu-shabu restaurant near our office. The restaurant’s traditional Japanese-style design was quite nice. The great service was also a pleasant surprise for us—waitresses in kimono and a waiter assisted at each table with cooking the shabu-shabu properly.

Shabu-shabu is a type of hot pot cuisine where people cook the vegetables and meat by themselves. So diners usually put the vegetables into the hot water in the pot. Diners also pick up the finely-sliced meat (pork or beef) with their chopsticks, then cook the slices by swishing them in the hot water. The name “shabu-shabu” actually came from this swishing action, and is an onomatopoeia, as the swishing makes the sound “shabu-shabu.” Did you know that?

At the restaurant, we did the “shabu-shabu” by ourselves. After all, that’s the most important part of having a shabu-shabu, right!? But the waiters helped us cook the other ingredients, which was very handy for the shabu-shabu beginners.

Have you ever had shabu-shabu before? If you haven’t, please try it at least once!

(Apr 2013)

しゃぶしゃぶでイノベーティブ新入社員歓迎会

こんにちは。もとこです。

今回はイノベーティブランゲージ2013年度春に行なった歓迎会についてお話します。この春、新しく4人のメンバーが入りました。アイスさん、ガブリエラさん、パロマさん、ラウルさんです。アイスさんはビデオをつくっています。ガブリエラさんとパロマさんはレッスンをつくるスケジュール管理をしています。ラウルさんはたいせつなITの管理をしています。
 
歓迎会ではイノベーティブの本社の近くのお店へ行きました。しゃぶしゃぶのお店です。とてもきれいな、日本らしいお店でした。サービスがとても親切で、スタッフみんなはびっくりしていました。お店の人がしゃぶしゃぶを手伝ってくれるんです。しゃぶしゃぶはおなべのお湯で野菜やお肉を料理します。自分で野菜をなべに入れます。お肉ははしでつまんで「しゃぶしゃぶ」と動かします。知っていましたか。

お店では、「しゃぶしゃぶ」は自分でしました。(楽しいですから!)でも、野菜はお店のスタッフが料理しました。とても簡単です。
 
みなさんはしゃぶしゃぶを食べたことありますか。ぜひ、一回食べてみてくださいね。
(2012年4月)