Little Sheep Hot Pot

Whenever the weather turns cold, hot pot always comes to mind. The pain about doing that at home, and believe me, we used to do that at home. Is to find the right ingrediants, right soup base and right sides to go along with everything. Not only do you have to whip up everything, it's just seems like a lot of work for something you are laying out for other people to cook.

I do remember when I was little, my parents would invite friends over to our place and there must've been 20 ppl in that apartment my parents had in Hong Kong. If you go there now, you will soon realize how small that really is. But when you're little, everything seems big. Anyway, it is always a party thing because everyone will dip their food in there, and you truely keep warm cooking. Not sure if it's the act of cooking that warms you up, or that there's so many people you're all huddled over that hot pot that did the trick, either way, it was a winter thing.

Nowadays, you can have hot pot all year around. They opened a Little Sheep Hot Pot in Houston. So what it's 100 outside in Houston, they just crank up the a/c. This company is based out of Mangolia, but the concept is the same nonetheless. Call it Chinese melting pot, if you will... you're cooking your own food either way.

What you do once you sat down, they give you a menu of items to check off. They offer anything from meat, veggies, side dishes, seafood. The main thing to start with is your soup base. The popular choices are the basic soup base or spicy soup base. Either way, they will throw in the Chinese herb to a, spice up your soup, and b, make it healthy. The goal is not really to make it healthy, but since it is the natural way to create taste to water, it's a by-product to make it healthy w/ the healthy traditional Chinese herbs.

You can do what we did, and split the pot in half and don't worry, they do not comingle unless you mingle it yourself. They give you the usual search and rescue spoons because you know there are times you need to go-fish... ba dum!

Anyway, when you order stuff, looks like a lot of food, but don't forget once you cook them, it's not as much as it seems. For the 3 of us, I think average about $20 per person, and that's about the same if you were to go to other restaurants. And you'll be sure to be full.

And one more thing, I know you're dying to know... yes, you can drink the soup if you want to. It is healthy ingredients after all.

Little Sheep Hot Pot
A-5901, Westheimer Road,
Houston, TX 77057
Tel:713-975-0687
Reservations are recommended on cold days.