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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a foodie party we had and a dish that one of the wives brought.She didn't have a recipe, so I tried re-creating the dish for dinner.You need thinly sliced pork. I bought the kind for shabu-shabu (the hot pot where you... ...full story at Adventures In Japan

from Adventures In Japan on Mon, May 19 2008

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