Morihachi Shabu Shabu

Brought to you by the same group who operates Morihachi Yakiniku, the Shabu Shabu counterpart is located on Ladies Market. I came here on the last day to redeem a groupon, so it was pretty full! It’s a spacious area, however some of the two seaters are annoying because there’s only one exit from the booth.
There are different tiers you can choose from:
A. U.S.A. Beef & Sashimi Course ($ 178)
B. Premium U.S.A. Beef & Sashimi Course ($ 198)
C. Australian Wagyu & Sashimi Course ($ 298)
D. Japanese Wagyu & Sashimi Course ($ 378)
I got the All You Can Eat Japanese Wagyu beef & sashimi Course. (90 minutes time limit) The beef was pretty good quality, somewhat melt in your mouth. Sliced rather thin, so I would dump the whole blob in. They also came with pork which was also sliced rather thin, A-​OK. They gave us chicken as well but I didn’t have any. It looked juicy and tender which is rare in hotpot.
There’s also a number of soup base you can choose from and I picked the Garlic Pork Bone Broth. I didn’t think the flavour was particularly strong and the refill was just with water.
The sauce was your typical Chinese hotpot sauce with soy sauce, seasame, spring onion, coriander, garlic, chilli, etc. It did come with a «plum» sour sauce, which was NOT ponzu. This was rather disappointing, however I have yet to come across a Shabu Shabu which has good ponzu in HK. But this sour sauce was just unacceptable. The soy sauce was extra salty too. I usually don’t have to mix it with broth but this time i did. Also they’re supposed to provide shredded daikon in Shabu which was missing :(
There were a variety of vegetables (bok choy, wintermelon, squash, tofu, fungus, corn, mushroom etc) and some beef/​fish/​squid balls, etc, noodles. Although I did not try any of the balls or sashimi so I did not comment on those. However I wouldn’t have high hopes for it.
There are canned and boxed drinks available (even beer!)
Wide variety of dessert looked and tasted mediocre. The Green Tea mousse lacked green tea flavour, the green tea ice cream was OK but you can tell it was low quality ice cream, the milk pudding was OK. There was also chocolate fondue and various cakes.
I also didn’t like how they didn’t provide a stock simmer to scoop up the fat. Although I did not specifically request for one, but most Hotpot/​shabu places usually give it to you.
Décor was new/​nice and toilet was clean too! Not sure how long that would last though.
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Tip: Come hungry! They have «happy hour» before 7pm which is something like 20% off! The meat is better than the other food, don’t come if you’re not a beef-​lover
Favourites: Good quality meat. decent price to get you filled
Meh: desserts and sauce. No ponzu (proper) and no daikon
Last words: Good Meat, Bad Sauce. 3.5 stars. Easy fixes though.