Science-themed Bangkok restaurant Shabu Lab features tables with built-in communal cooking pots and portable stoves for preparing your own meal. Rose Dykins reports
Shabu-shabu is a hearty Japanese hotpot loaded with meat, seafood, carbs and vegetables, served with dipping sauces, where each ingredient is cooked piece by piece at the dinner table.
Offering a communal, hands-on dining experience, it is a firm foodie trend in the Thai capital, where the shabu-shabu restaurant scene has been flourishing for some time.
And now, an experimental restaurant, Shabu Lab has just opened in Bangkok. It seeks to elevate the typical shabu-shabu dining experience by creating a futuristic science lab environment, and implementing design principles conducive to the experimental, practical element of enjoying food.
After spending time studying how laboratories optimise workspace and efficiency, Integrated Field considered how design could make a restaurant run more smoothly.
Communal tables for between four to ten diners come with built-in equipment, including a large communal cooking pot, a portable stove, food trays, bowls, dishes and dip bowls.
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