Bitgaram-dong shabu-shabu with a mala half-and-half broth: Yuyu Shabu

Let me recommend a shabu-shabu spot in Naju haha!!! It's Yuyu Shabu!!! I loved this place ever since it opened in Yangnim-dong, Gwangju, so I'm so happy it's stuck around in my own neighborhood too haha.

Yuyu Shabu Naju Innovation City branch: hours and location

Yuyu Shabu Naju Innovation City branch hours: Daily 11:00-21:00

Yuyu Shabu is a Naju shabu-shabu spot open every single day! It's even running with no closures through next week's Chuseok holiday!! Amazing~

Yuyu Shabu, this Naju shabu-shabu favorite, is located in Bitgaram-dong, Naju! It's really close to my house too, so I come often haha.

Where to park at Yuyu Shabu, and what the entrance looks like

There are parking spaces around the restaurant, so you can park there, or you can also use the building's parking lot!!

But!! From the 3rd floor up, the building parking is for the hotel, so you can only park up to the 2nd floor!!!! If there's a traffic cone in a 2nd-floor spot, just move it aside and park haha. We were too lazy to go up so we squeezed into a spot right in front of the restaurant lol.

Here's Yuyu Shabu!!! The exterior is already full of atmosphere haha. The interior is pretty, but it's also just a genuinely delicious Naju shabu-shabu spot!

Inside Yuyu Shabu: central kitchen, tables for 2 and 4, and an 8-person room

Walking in, there's an open kitchen right in the center!!! Lol, you can watch the staff prep in real time! And tables are arranged all around it in every direction!

Here's what the tables look like!

There's a good mix of 4-seat and 2-seat tables,

and toward the back there's a room for groups!!!

This is what the room looks like!! It fits up to 8 people!! I once came here for a meal with coworkers as a group haha. It was super private and nice!! And then there's the self-bar~

What is on the self-bar: unlimited vegetables and peanut sauce

There's a neatly organized self-bar! Vegetables from the self-bar are all-you-can-eat! There's no peanut sauce at the tables, so you have to grab it from the self-bar yourself!

All the vegetables are so fresh~

Menu and price: Yuyu Shabu plus mala shabu half-and-half for ₩2,000 extra

We went for the half-and-half shabu! Yuyu Shabu + mala shabu! It only cost ₩2,000 more haha.

There's also a receipt review event running right now, so don't miss it~!

Before the food arrives, I read the 'how to eat Yuyu Shabu' guide carefully. Even though I've been here many times, I still read it carefully lol. So then—

How to eat it: mixing the tarae sauce, then the kalguksu finish

Here comes the broth~!

The signature move at Yuyu Shabu! Stir up the tarae sauce and get it ready ahead of time!!! This stuff is seriously magic haha.

The full spread, ready to go!

Yuyu Shabu looks amazing too! Nailing both looks and taste isn't easy at all! Once the shabu-shabu is out, the staff kindly walk you through the order.

Fish cake goes in~ then vegetables~

Mushrooms go in~ then meat~

Sauce ready! Ready to eat! Once the broth starts bubbling, you just add everything in order haha.

My husband, throwing everything in without hesitation lol.

And then he's cutting it lol. I asked wouldn't it be easier to cut it before putting it in? He said it's the same either way lol.

And then in goes the fresh beef too!

Bubbling away and cooking nicely haha.

Once everything's cooked, dip it deep into that delicious tarae sauce — Yuyu Shabu's signature move — and also try the three other sauces! Personally, dipping into the tarae sauce was the tastiest for me haha.

Extra vegetables brought over from the self-bar!

This time we cut as we go lol. We ate through all the extra vegetables we brought over too haha. To finish, we added kalguksu (knife-cut noodles) and it was so good I forgot to take a photo while eating ^^;haha. You're supposed to finish with kalguksu and then porridge, but since lunch hadn't fully digested yet, we stopped at the kalguksu today!!!! The well-cooked kalguksu was so tasty haha. I think this might really be the best combo meal! A healthy shabu-shabu with my husband before heading to the gym — the best dinner choice bb.