Ken wrote on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:00:41 -0700:

??>> Not that I dispute the idea that one restaurant may copy
??>> another's menu but, given the usual number of offerings,
??>> similarities are not surprising. Sometimes you wonder what
??>> dishes the restaurants *do not* make. The rather good
??>> (even if the name sounds unlikely) Bob's 88 Shabu-Shabu in
??>> Rockville, MD is a case in point. I might even be able to
??>> learn some Chinese characters from their menu (in English
??>> and Chinese)

KB> Interesting that a restaurant with the "Shabu-Shabu" (a
KB> Japanese dish) has a menu in English and Chinese.

Bob is a good Chinese, i.e.. don't let ethnicity stand in the
way of profits! The owners are actually Taiwanese and may have
felt that Shabu-shabu was more recognizable than the other name
sometimes used in self-consciously Chinese places: Mongolian Hot
Pot. Even so, they do allege Mongolian origins for the dish.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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