Shabu-yo, a popular Japanese all-you-can-eat hot pot restaurant chain, has been getting a lot of attention for its incredibly thin pork slices, which are literally see-through. The ultra-thin cuts have already been dubbed ‘stealth pork’ on social media and have inspired an abundance of humorous comments.
“Being able to slice it this thin is pretty impressive tech in a way lolllll If they wanna cut costs that bad, they should just stop doing all-you-can-eat in the first place lolllll,” one person posted on X.
“Was there a translucent pig or something?” someone else commented on the original photo of the cuts, which garnered over 3 million views on X alone.
The original poster also commented that one of the advantages of stealth pork is that the ultra-thin slices allow diners to eat more slices than usual and then brag to their friends about how many they consumed.
The unusually thin slices got so much attention online that a couple of days ago, Shabu-yo put out a statement apologizing to its customers.
“We have confirmed that at some stores, meat was being served in a condition that differed from the meat serving standards that we originally set,” the statement read. “We deeply apologise to our valued customers for providing a product of a quality that did not meet their expectations.”
The cuts are pretty impressive, to be honest. Prosciutto cutters only wish they could pull off this thinness without messing up the slice.
