Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot

We had the 2 – 3 people combo with separate lamb meatballs and skewers. We took a spicy base. Lamb meatballs were awesome. Coming back soon.

Well this was my first attempt at having Mongolian Hot Pot… So do take this in account.
It was a bit confusing for me to understand how it works…(Probably they need some description in menu to tell us what to do maybe).
So we went in got all you can eat menu option.
They gave us a soup base with Half Spicy/​Half Original pot. There is literally a hotplate in the center of our table which gets it heated in front of you choice…
Depending on what you choose meats/​veggies/​greens/​dumplings (LOTS of options here) arrive at your table cold and ready to be cooked.
We dunked them in the pot let it boil for some time and started having it.
The taste is very unique and different… I oe how we can always keep cooking fresh and having it with the soup from pot… The flavors seep in well in some time and tastes even nicer.
This whole concept though very unique was bit messy and needed a lot of attention on my side to stop making a mess.
I had to put in more effort per morsel than typical other cuisines…
Overall a satisfactory experience… I will definitely try it again and update my review as this time around I will spend lesser time getting accustomed to eating it and more in actually eating it. :P

Suppose to be a 4 stars for the excellent soup and meats!!! Love the lamb, the meatballs and everything I ordered. The only problem was when we asked for cold water, it had a lot of dirt in it!
When I asked the waiter what was in the glass of cold water, he stated: oh maybe the glass didn’t get washed properly as if it is a matter of fact. Oh well except for the lack of hygiene for the glass of water, the meat is awesome in the pork soup. I didn’t enjoy the mala soup much since the taste of a spice overwhelms me!

Remember Lemmings, that game that you played when you were an extremely socially awkward kid? Well, imagine that you had a dark side and you made the Lemmings all die by walking off the ledge. That’s pretty much me every game, unintentionally of course…
But that’s what I want to do the waitstaff here, intentionally, some of whom have a similar intelligence level as those Lemmings. If they weren’t wearing their uniforms, I wouldn’t be able to tell that they worked there.
If you are at that stage in life where you can’t cook much more than ramen, come here, so you can learn to throw shit in the pot and be your own guinea pig. Good luck. Hot pot is a cook-​your-​own-​shit type of deal, where the waitstaff give you the raw ingredients, and you make the hellfire happen. You will eat, and you will sweat. If I had no inhibitions, this would be a game of strip-​eat, because your face will be all over the boiling broth, absorbing humidity like it’s summer in Shanghai.
They have lunch for about $ 12 a pot, but that’s missing the point. You come here with a group of friends for dinner, order the half and half (half crimson broth with mala oil and peppercorns, and half who gives a fuck if you can’t handle the heat), shell out ~$ 30 for all you can eat (you have to pay extra for sauces), and eat until you melt your faces (and respective makeup) off those meager facial bones of yours.
The $ 30 is a challenge (or moreso a tease), saying «you can’t eat that much!!» But you’ll know you’ve made your return on investment when your stomach has the consistency of the chorus of Major Lazer’s Lean On slowed down 100x and examined under a microscope to see what the hell you have done to your body.
Good luck cleaning your bathroom after you release the Kraken after your meal. Be careful lighting a torch anywhere down there during your meal. It’s guaranteed to be highly flammable.
Strong 3 to a Light 4

This is a jam pack place for all you can eat hot pot. If you come during peak hour for dinner., you have to wait unless you make the reservation ahead. In addition the parking is limited so you might need to park across the street at crossroad mall. The environment is hot and suffocate as everyone are eating hot pot. You literally have breathing problem as the steam and heat from the surrounding hot pot making you sick. I wouldn’t suggest you to come if you have breathing issue. Now for the food it is cheap. Yes it is all can eat but you do have less than 2 hours to finish it (they usually don’t hurry you and it is nice). However some foods came in late after ordering and you have to remind them. For the price you pay, I believe about $ 22 a head for dinner, and the quality of food, it doesn’t worth it. One time is enough. If not for my sister’s invitation, I wouldn’t come myself.

I really enjoyed their hot pot, portions are generous. You pay for the sides that you are getting. I highly recommend the all you can eat option for groups of 4 or more or even if you have a large appetite. You will save more with the all you can eat option.

I like Little Sheep Mongolian. The all you can eat option is great. I like the half and half. The food is good, fresh, and yummy. The service is generally quite good.
I don’t like that they don’t have individual pots. The spicy broth is not spicy enough. I also don’t like that they limit the all you can eat to two servings of each item.
Otherwise, I do like this hot pot place. It’s not my first choice, but if other places are closed, I will come here. Pricing is not unlike other hot pot places.
Overall, Pretty good. If you don’t need a super spicy brother, check this place out, it’s pretty good!

Plan to go here before laundry day because everything you wear will smell like the spice base of the broth (curry?). It has surprisingly high end décor and the wait was pretty long, even at 8pm at night. The all-​you-​can-​eat option is the best if you aren’t 100% sure of what you want a la carte. It comes out in small quantities so if you don’t like it, it’s not a big loss. However, my favorite thing wasn’t anything in the hot pot, it was the fried steamed buns. And be very careful where you park, there’s not much designated for Little Sheep and it’s highly enforced.

This would have been a 5* if they didnt make us wait for almost half an hour for our 2^nd round order. Because other than that, the food was really good! The broth is flavorful (not too salty or bland). The lamb smell is not strong at all! The overall quality of food (meat, seafood and veggies) is fantastic!
I think its like 22.99 or 23.99 per person.

This place really only gets a knock for extremely limited parking and poor ventilation (steam everywhere = you will leave here smelling like food for days). When we arrived the parking lot was absolutely packed. Parking spots are specifically reserved for each restaurant and they are not playing around about towing! Three tow trucks outside working the entire time.
Otherwise if you like HOTPOT this place is is delicious. We did the half and half just to try and the broth couldn’t have been better. We had just about everything on the menu.
$ 24 for all you can eat?! That’s deals on wheels.
The service was exceptional. Perfect amount of check ins. Fast. Prompt on refills on broth, food and drinks.
I’d come back again.

There’s only few of these famous Little Sheet hot pot chain in the US. Tried to visit the one in NY, but wasn’t able to due to the location. So I was thrilled that our company dinner was held here during my business trip.
It’s fairly decent size restaurant, though the store front looks otherwise. There was plenty of space that wasn’t being utilized like the empty bar area that had limited liquor. I bring this up, as my collegue had ordered the dirty martini and each time they told him they couldn’t make it due to lack of ingridents but ended up sending a glass to our table anyways… I think they just didn’t know what dirty martini was? Other than that, the Seattle beer on draft was pretty delicious!
We checked marked items for 10 people and the round table had 3 burners for us to cook our food. First round of food didn’t take too long to come out but after that, it was hard to track down servers.
Food was pretty fresh and delicious. It offered lot of variety of sides/​veggies/​proteins than most hotpots that I have been to but less on hot dishes, which isn’t a big of deal. One thing I didn’t like was that they charged you for the sauces and didn’t have a sauce table for customers to pick and choose to make their own.
I had ordered 2 sauces for each person but server only brought 2 sauce for the whole table and we never saw any additional sauces… As you can imagine, we were rotating the sauce quite frequently and was using it sparingly.
Aside from slow service, the food is worth the patience. One other thing to highlight is that Little Sheep Hotpot is known for their broth. Typically hotpots have those herbs that I can’t really stand but ever since my collegue introduced me to the Little Sheep broth packet that is scarce in the US, I fell in love with hotpot. Wish we had this chain in Atlanta!

I wish I could give this place a higher review, but there were a couple of problems having to do with service.
I assumed that all the Little Sheep locations would be the same and have the same process, but didn’t. The other location I’ve been to had a sauce bar where you get to pick and choose the sauces you wanted, and also had a larger variety than the sauces provided on the menu in Bellevue. But! other than that the food was still the same and still good as usual! (Whoever said the soup was bland, where are your taste buds?)
The only thing I wanted to bring up was the service, which I can see has actually already been brought up… but still.
The staff was friendly, and our waiter seated us immediately. We were then left to do our own thing while she brought us tea. I thought she would start us off with drinks but she just dropped off the tea and left.
I also saw her just walking around not really doing anything, other than just walking around. I mean I guess she didn’t want to bother us or anything but still, just watching her pace around the floor slowly while we were waiting for someone to take our order… it was kind of like hell. When someone finally did take our order though, he just took the sheet and didn’t review it with us. Later we were missing some things and got items we didn’t order either which could have been avoided if he reviewed it with us.
When we left we didn’t even get a «bye» or «have a nice day» even though there were three people standing out front.
So far a lot of restaurants I’ve been to in Washington have very little or bad service… I mean, are tips not important to y’all??? Or… do you just not know why you’re getting tip in the first place… service guys service

Nothing special about this overpriced all you can eat restaurant. I just paid $ 60 for 2 adults and a 5 year old!!! Just a bland chicken broth soup that you add your own raw ingredients into. The pot stickers were really bad, the wontons were ok, beef meatballs were ok, the corn was the only thing I really even «liked.»
Please people save your money and head to eat elsewhere.: /

I love little sheep! Both broths are delicious; one super strong in flavor, and the other is more mild but still tastes great. My favorite part about little sheep is the amazing quality of ingredients you get for your hot pot. It beats all the other hot pot places I’ve been to thus far. Their lamb dumplings and soft tofu are a couple of my most favorite add-​ins. LAWDDDD the lamb dumplings are LIFE. you need to get them!!! The fish filets are very fresh and fishy. I normally don’t like fish but I could dig it here. Veggies are super fresh, homemade meatballs are all good but they take a while to cook! Best part? All you can eat! Order your heart away (but make sure you eat it… Wasting is bad). The menu only really lets you check off items for two rounds, but you can always request a third or fourth plate of mushrooms or meat slices and they’ll bring it to you.
One of the biggest issues here is customer service and broth refills. It seems to be very inconsistent. Sometimes service is great, a lot of the time is pretty poor. Once or twice I’ve gotten a rude server. A couple visits ago, we asked for broth refill as we were a party of four and they charged us extra on the bill! We didn’t know refills were extra… In fact the first couple times I ate here, that wasn’t even an issue. I wonder why they didn’t say anything before filling the pot… Maybe it was written somewhere? Either way, it was not clearly communicated and caught us all off guard. I only come here now for special occasions because of how pricey it became. Consistency and communication is an issue, if you think it will ruin your experience.
All and all, this place has a very intimate atmosphere with great quality food. Be sure to wear old dirty clothes and air out your car after eating because the Szechuan scent will haunt you for a while!

Just way too expensive, and that would probably be a problem no matter how good this place is. I came here with the Groupon discount, and my lunch here with three other people was still quite costly. The food is good and I have no problem with that part of the restaurant, but I can’t regularly come to a place that I can barely afford even if I’m paying less than the regular price.
Our table started with a hot pot full of broth and with a divider to separate the spicy broth from the non-​spicy broth. Ordering is as simple as using a pen to mark on a paper menu the quantity of each item you want. After turning our menu in, the wait seemed to take forever, which is inexcusable when they’re essentially serving uncooked food.
The rest of the experience was enjoyable, however. The food tasted good regardless of which broth it’s cooked in. We ordered a mix of meat, vegetables, and noodles. Honestly, we probably could have gone for more noodles, but it’s not that big of a deal. The real problems here are the price and the wait. But if you can tolerate that, this is a nice place to have a meal with friends.

Came here with a group of four to use a Groupon that we had and had been talking about hotpot for a while. I’ve only done hotpot at friend’s parties so wasn’t sure exactly how it would work in the restaurant. Should not have been skeptical with this place because everything about it was very pleasant and delicious!
First off they have free parking and the restaurant is huge. Although, the restaurant was pretty much full when we left around 9pm on a Wednesday night so there might be a wait at times. We had a comfortable booth in the corner that allowed us amazing views of downtown Seattle which was a plus. We were brought teas and waters (on request) right away along with the menus. It’s like ordering sushi, you mark the boxes for the items that you want and they bring them out to your table. However, you do the cooking!
We selected the all you can eat option for $ 21 per person and we definitely got our fill of food. We chose an assortment of sliced meats, greens, mushrooms, potstickers, wontons, and starchy vegetables along with the half spicy and half regular pot and everything was brought out to our table very quickly. The broths were each very flavorful on their own and got more and more flavorful during the time we cooked our food. The sauces we added on for an additional $.50 each were also quite good and flavorful.
We will definitely be back once I recover from how full I was. And next time I would again order the half and half broth, the sliced lamb, beef and pork, the fish balls, the leafy greens, taro, lamb wontons, sweet potato, and enoki mushrooms. Those were all my personal faves!

My first time here’s amazing except for bamboo top burning my lips. It was so good. The fact was I didn’t come scared of meat. But they actually have a lot of vegan dishes. 3 different tofu plates veggies, yam noodles. It was amazing. Servers checked with me very often maybe because I’m right by kitchen or they saw my Unilocal app? Don’t know, but it was awesome! I’ll be back for more definitely.

1. We ordered and got about 40% of the stuff we ordered. Also, if we have three people and order corn, please don’t just give us one piece of corn. If we order wontons for three people, DON’T GIVE US JUST TWO WONTONS.
2. If you guys are no longer accepting online coupons then don’t put the coupons online? And at least offer a better explanation than «we don’t take it.» It’s the same as «because I said so».
3. We got seated a a table with soaked napkins underneath the seats, straws underneath the seats, leftovers under the seats…
4. I think our server came by once during the meal until his shift was swapped out with someone else, guy with long hair. Now THAT guy gave great service.

I went to Little Sheep with a Groupon to use, and I am glad I didn’t pay full price. The smell of cumin is so strong, we could smell it as soon as we stepped out of the car. The strong smell of cumin just permeated my whole experience — and I had to literally strip my clothes off and shower as soon as I got home. That is not an exaggeration.
OK, so if you are not as averse to reeking of cumin like me, then you will enjoy the spicy broth. If I were to return, I would get only the non-​spicy broth and order one of the spicy sauces for dipping. You get two servings of whatever you «order» — meat, seafood, veggies, dumplings, meat/​seafood balls, noodles, etc. I will say that they are VERY generous with their servings — our second round was a bit hard to finish.
Their meat options are not as plentiful as other hot pot places I have visited, and the quality was just ok. I’ve been to other hot pot places where they have a make-​your-​own-​sauce bar, and that would be preferable to their pre-​made sauces (for which they charge you). The service was pretty good, though. And drinks are relatively cheap — even if they aren’t the best made.

— Ate so much that it hurts QQ —
Food: 4 stars
Price: 3 stars
Service: 4 stars
Ambiance: 4 stars
Overall: 3.75 stars
Food:
We got a pot with half house soup base half spicy soup base. Fresh veggie and good meat. We didn’t order any «balls» because those make you fat and they have no nutritional values. We just focused on meat/​seafood/​veggie. We ordered 9 orders of beef and lamb each, and it’s obviously TOO MUCH. I think for two, a healthy amount is 6 orders each (if you also want to eat other stuff too, that is.) I wanted to throw up later, but my friend told me to «hold it» because it’s money. *facepalm* But it’s ok, I don’t know how to make myself throw up anyways since I’m not into unhealthy weight loss.
Btw, it’s funny how my hubby thinks the house soup base has more flavor than the spicy soup base. lol
Price:
I’m cheap, so I think it’s expensive. However, we ordered so much meat that it’s worth it. Also, I really dislike places that charge you for drinks. It’s really stupid of them because don’t they know drinks can make ppl full and they can actually benefit from us drinking there? It’s not like pop is as expensive as alcohol either.
Read on Unilocal about being charged on burnt pot, but we didn’t get charged. I’m pretty sure we burnt it a bit at the bottom because the lamb dumpling is all gross once you leave it in for too long. Also, We asked for our bill when we were still eating, so there’s no way they could charge us for any unfinished food. hehe!
Service:
It’s around 6:30 pm on Mother’s day, and there were 5 tables ahead of us. I think we’ve waited 20 – 30 min. It’s okay since we didn’t make any reservation. The front desk lady was not there a lot, but she explained everything clearly. The waiter/​waitress won’t pay any attention to you until you try to grab them. The service I got was prompt, so it’s quite good. I also used the Groupon even tho I didn’t make a reservation, so that’s pretty nice.
Ambiance:
The decoration is somewhat night with dim lights. The place is separated pretty well, so you do get a lot of privacy. I don’t think they play any music in the restaurant, but I could be deaf .
Overall:
If you wanna be fat, come here. The ingredients are fresh and the soup is good. Get the Groupon if you are in luck. also if you are in luck like I was, they won’t care if you made a reservation or not to redeem your Groupon.
TIP: I hate how they don’t specify how many pieces each ingredient come with, so you can check out my pictures to get a sense of how much food is there per order. But I still think it’s up to the kitchen ppl to decide. depends on their moods, you know? lol.