Happy Lamb Hot Pot, Seattle
Hot pot restaurant · International District ·
Cook meat & vegetables in flavorful broth at your table
Cook meat & vegetables in flavorful broth at your table
"Sharing the same strip mall that used to house Jin Wah, Happy Lamb Hotpot is the first Oregon outpost of a Chinese hot pot chain. The restaurant is big — 210 seats big — and modern. Diners can go a la carte or all-you-can-eat, and just need to fill out a card with what they want to dip into the bubbling broth. The yin-yang soup base is exemplary, with one side chile-oil-fiery, the other mild and milky, spiked with goji berries and jujubes."
"This International District spot is a maze of deep booths and long Game Of Thrones-looking dining tables with multiple vats of bubbling soup. Here, you don’t need to calculate how many slices of ribeye and orders of enoki mushrooms are needed to feed a hungry group of seven. Just defer to the restaurant’s all-you-can-eat option for $33.98 (or the weekday lunch version for $30.98). While the meats and sides are pretty standard for most hot pot places, we love the rich bone marrow-based broth amped up with a comforting curry or dried red chilies. And you’ll especially enjoy eating tasty lime cilantro lamb meatballs and head-on shrimp when you don’t have to ration." - Kayla Sager-Riley
"This CID place is a maze of deep booths and long Game Of Thrones-looking dining tables with multiple vats of bubbling soup. Here, you don’t need to calculate how many slices of ribeye and orders of enoki mushrooms are needed to feed a hungry group of seven. Just defer to the restaurant’s all-you-can-eat option. While the meats and sides are pretty standard for most hot pot places, we love the rich bone marrow-based broth amped up with a comforting curry or dried red chilies. And you’ll especially enjoy eating tasty lime cilantro lamb meatballs and head-on shrimp when you don’t have to ration." - gabe guarente, aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley
"The seating at Little Sheep is made up of giant booths and big round tables, and it always seems like the staff saves enough seating for larger groups. This is good news for you and your six friends, because even if there are 16 hangry parties of two waiting for a table, you’ll probably be seated before them. Once you’re in, ordering is so simple - get one of the preset combos from the menu, which will get you various meats and vegetables to cook in a large pot of boiling broth. Don’t forget a soft serve cone from the self-serve dessert area when you’re done." - aimee rizzo
"This international chain — with outposts in the International District and Bellevue — takes a slightly different tack than similar places by not really encouraging DIY meat and vegetable sauce dipping. But the restaurant adds so many different herbs to its soup bases, creating a fragrant, rich, and aromatic broth, that it really doesn’t matter. Servings of lamb, a Mongolian hot pot staple, rounds out the experience." - Ryan Lee