Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot

Make sure you take cash. My family and I wanted to try the Little Sheep here in Mississauga. We have Little Sheep in Houston.
The food is good and the service ok. If you need water make sure you ask them to leave a pitcher for you. Since they are going to get a gratuity for more then 6 they won’t be back to check on you for sometime. But what can I expect… It’s an Asian restaurant???

Really enjoyed this place for our first time!
There were enough simple options for the hot pot ingredients (we got chicken, spinach, broccoli, potato, beef, daikon, dumplings).
We ordered garlic chicken and garlic beef but the soup was garlicky enough on its own. We should’ve ordered the regular chicken and beef.
The chicken broth was very salty but delicious and savoury.
The spicy chicken broth had a very deep spice to it that just hits the back of your throat. It’s not a burning spicy, more of a flavourful spicy. Loved it when I mixed in a little more regular chicken broth. Lots of chilli pieces in the broth that kind of got in the way when I was drinking the broth.
Service was slow. The waiter rarely came to check on us and we had to ask for tea and more buns a couple times in a row.
I LOVED the sweet buns and seaweed appetizers. Delicious. The pork was so tender and flavourful.
I would come here again! The price was reasonable at lunch time but I would make sure I come with 5+ people or people who have a big appetite!

This place is interesting to say the least.
First off let me start by saying they are clean and the food is delicious. However — for the price I did expect much more — similar to other hot pot places I’ve been.
Food:
The food selection was ok — it wasn’t very well organized but still quite sizable.
The quality was good for the most part, some vegetables you could see we’re not fresh and had wilted abit.
The two broths were very nice however I would not recommend drinking them as a soup with your noodles as the salt content is insanely high.
The menu claims three rounds tops but I was specifically told it was unlimited so not to worry.
**** Please note: their spicy broth which probably has 2 cups worth of cut up dried chillis is not very spicy at all. *****
I must say — their dessert– deep fried bun with condensed milk is omg amazing. I actually ate bites of green tea ice cream with it and it was one of the most delicious morsels.
Lastly — their sauce station is a joke. The sauces aren’t properly labeled, the selection is poor and it’s very poorly put on a moving table cart.
Service:
This is why I’ve docked 2 stars. I was disappointed.
First — when you have a table — one that requires food brought to them often — you need to keep an eye on them. It was quite tiresome to see waiters constantly walk by me and meanwhile our water was empty, our food for that round was over and we had a stack of dishes piled high with no one to clear it till I flagged someone down.
Two — please — I don’t consider it allot to go around every 20 minutes or so to refill your table’s soup pot since they do tend to reduce when boiling rapidly. In addition — I don’t consider it asking two much for someone to go around refilling water or just popping by to ask us if we need anything let alone keep an eye on us.
Restaurant:
It baffles my mind when as a restaurant you are not able to properly provide forks, ladles to serve the broth into the bowls you provided let along tongs to place the food into the pot. I was told they could get me a pair of chopsticks if I wasn’t comfortable touching raw meat/​seafood with my chopsticks and then eating with it. TONGS! This restaurant needs to invest in tongs.
One thing I did notice is this restaurant does not steam up the windows and smell as strongly as re other hot pot places I’ve been to.
Pricing:
This is where this restaurant gets you. Weekend dinner is $ 23.99 however you are charged per pot that you use. In addition — drinks are not included which is odd because at other places for the same price drinks are all you can drink. In addition, they offer «sides» that are not actually part of the menu and are priced separately. I thought this a little ridiculous in my opinion.
Overall — though the service wasn’t the best — the food met most of my expectations.
I can’t say I’ll be back any time soon but if I do get another hot pot craving and for some reason I really cannot drive to Toronto to get delicious, organized hot pot with great service, best variety of meats, vegetables etc. then I would certainly come to this location.
I was really excited for this restaurant — it was worth going but I feel like I was let down over things that the location can very easily fix if they wanted to.

The food was good and the service was good I didn’t like how they didn’t take credit card.

A pot of broth ranges from $ 2 for a small clear broth to $ 5 for the Yin Yang Pot (½ clear, ½ hot) then $ 15.99 for AYCE lunch or $ 21.99 for dinner. Dinner which is available all day offers a wider selection of seafood including squid, shrimp, cuttlefish, mussels and fish fillets as well as other items. Décor is clean and modern, ingredients are fresh and abundant. Dip sauces are on a rolling cart in the middle of the restaurant. Service is spotty and less than intuitive. Depending on which server you draw, your experience will vary from long waits before seeing your server and getting incorrect items or none at all to friendly and passably attentive. Worthwhile if you enjoy a tasty and satisfying DIY meal. Note: they only accept cash or debit.

Food is good but it is too overpriced. Prices are not upfront. Too many hidden costs. You have to pay for tea, drink, soup etc. Even the 20% tips were added into the bill regardless their level of service. Final bill is at least $ 35 to $ 40 or more per person. With this price, you can get much better food and variety in Mississauga or Toronto. Will not recommend this place to friends.

Don’t let the 2 stars fool you. The food and service are good. Everyone here already mentioned the options you can get. Its the pricing structure that I am complaining about. Its a certain price for lunch vs dinner. And then on top of that you have to pay for the POT! So if you want a double pot to share with your date, its an extra $ 5 per person. Water is included but anything like tea and you have to pay extra. In the end, it ends up being a price for a really good buffet elsewhere or a nice dinner. I didnt like how all these ad ons are tacked on. I dont mind about the food price, but I want it all upfront so I can make an informed choice before I already have sat down. I would not return for this reason.

There was always a gaping hole for hot pot in Mississauga’s food scene. Having been to Little Sheep twice now since it opened two months ago, I can confidently say that that hole still exists to some extent.
My most recent visit to Little Sheep was for my mom’s birthday. We had a group of 14 people coming in, most of whom had never tried hot pot before and were looking forward to a new experience. I explained the concept to them and they seemed very excited.
Our server was very genuine and likable in the way she accommodated our group. We were promptly seated and she explained the process to us. Unfortunately, though her tone was nice, I couldn’t help but feel like she was detailing a big cash grab to us.
So the lunch price is $ 15.99, but this only includes vegetables + sliced beef/​lamb/​pork. It’s pretty much a no-​brainer to upgrade to the dinner price of $ 22.99 (more types/​cuts of meat, seafood), but add an extra $ 1.00 on weekends. That’s the base price. On top of that, you have to pay for each pot of soup you want (with free refills). Some tables have individual boilers ($ 2-​$ 2.50/pot) and some tables have communal boilers ($ 4−5/pot). Water is included but tea is an extra $ 1/​pot per table. Drinks are not bottomless, but instead are $ 1.50/can. Sum it all up, and you’re looking at nearly $ 35/​person after tax and auto-​grat. Much nicer meals can be had for this price.
But moving on to the actual experience…
You can create your own bowl of sauce to enjoy your food with. There is a sauce bar conveniently located in every room of the restaurant where you can mix and match different sauces. My personal favourite is the barbecue base with some sesame sauce and a dash of chili oil.
There are two soup bases for you to choose from — mild and spicy. If you want half and half, you need to order the large pot at $ 5. These soup bases are refillable. I personally find the mild one to be pretty bland and love the spicy one. It’s a shame they don’t have more soup bases like other places, but I can live with these two offerings.
There is a big laminated menu with pictures detailing each of the AYCE items. You make your actual order, however, on a sheet of paper. It’s the same sheet as you’d get at an AYCE sushi joint where you just input the quantity you’d like beside the menu item. I found that the laminated menu doesn’t match up with the paper menu, as there are some items that are missing on one menu and vice-​versa. We made our first order (heavy on the meat and seafood) and gave it to our waiter for processing.
Our vegetables were pretty quick to arrive, so we started by cooking those. Nothing to complain about on that front. However, our seafood and meat took a long time to come. I’ve come to expect from AYCE places that the meat/​seafood typically comes after a long delay, but we had to ask for our order a couple times before it actually arrived. By the time our meat came, we were already full from eating everything else. I can’t help but assume that this is what the restaurant wanted.
For dessert, they have the usual assortment of ice cream. They also have mini-​buns which are baked and served with condensed milk. These were really good.
Overall, the act of cooking your own food was the best part of the meal. I’ve had far higher quality hot pot experiences in the past — entire orders coming in a decent amount of time, higher quality meats, etc. However, Little Sheep still fills in a hole in Mississauga’s food landscape, albeit for the time being. If a higher quality restaurant comes in the near future, I can see it easily taking Little Sheep’s customers.
BTW: This place doesn’t have forks! (???) I understand that it’s an Asian establishment and chopsticks are the norm, but not everyone is adept at using them and would prefer to use a fork. I actually knew this ahead of time and brought a few forks from home to address this. (When we asked for forks for the table, they said that all of their forks were currently in use, and they don’t know when they’ll have some available. I was in disbelief just hearing this in a restaurant in Mississauga).

Found this place via an insauga article that appeared on my Facebook feed. I had heard about Mongolian hot pot, and always wanted to try same, but never found a place that did same. The insauga review was favourable, and so I decided to go try it. This place can be accurately described as a Korean bbq type idea, but you boil everything in a pot instead of cooking it on a grill. It is a lot of fun, and works well for get together, dates, etc. They have two types of bases to cook in, one sweet and the other spicey. They gave a large pot with both using a separating wall in the middle called Ying Yang. However, I reccomend the spicey base as it is not excessively hot and makes the rest taste better. They have a small table with additional sauces, etc: you can add more hot sauce, chilli oil, etc. I would suggest going for the dinner menu as the various meatballs, etc are worth the extra bit. The dumplings are excellent. They have more noodles types than I can remember. They also have several types of mushrooms, etc. The sweet corn comes out well when put in the spicey base. There are so odd things on the menu such as cow stomach and pigs blood, but if your boat, enjoy! I had no idea what I was doing, so I threw everything into the pot, and it came out well. Overall, this place is a fun place to go, and the food quality is excellent. I was surprised to find out it is a franchise from the US, and not a one off. They are doing an excellent job.

There are tons of hotpot places booming across the GTA but most of them are in Scarborough/​Markham area but it’s nice to have a hotpot resto in the west end. My last mongolian experience was at Little Sheep in the Scarb area for my sister’s birthday. It wasn’t the greatest so I didn’t think I would try it again. But what I really likes about Mongolian Hotpot is that it’s a sit down kinda AYCE menu so you get to order from the table. Let’s break down the good:
AMBIENCE: this used to be a congee restaurant that I used to go to but has been completely renovated into a nice spacious restaurant. The restaurant is well ventilated and lit and can accommodate up to 250 patrons. There is lotsa room between the tables. The only thing is that the table space is a little tight if you have a large group they can only accomodate 6 guests and if you each are getting your pot then you may not have room on the table to eat when the food comes.
FOOD: I really like the selection of items that you can choose from such as beef, lamb, pork, chicken, sweet potato, dumplings, noodles, etc. The list goes on and on but my favourite in particular were the handmade noodles they were so fresh and had a nice smooth texture. All the ingredients were made fresh. They also have a sauce station which was poor labeled so you have to figure what sauce is what.
SERVICE: Can’t complain for an asian restaurant, it was quick and efficient and even though some of the food items we ordered didn’t come, our server still managed to check up on us to make sure that we had everything.
Overall, great experience and I definitely will come back for the next hotpot craving.

YES!!! FINALLY H O T — P O T in Mississauga.
I don’t have to drive all the way east to get some good hot pot.
Best of all, its the Mongolian little sheep franchise.
So I’ve been to the Mongolian in San Fran, and this was easily comparable. The only difference is that this Mississauga location offers AYCE. That’s right! The quality and selection of items were great. They were not shy about giving us endless amounts of beef, and HAND MADE noodles (a must try) along with many other options.
The only complaints I have, which are standard for hot pot places (even at home):
–Not enough table space for big groups, big orders
–Only ONE round of ice cream (order them up!)
–If you order separate pots, they charge you an additional unavoidable, $ 2.50 per bowl. So if you’re with a family, share a bowl! It will save you about $ 10.00.
The location is great, it is situated in the «Chinese» area/​mall of Mississauga and is replacing the old Congee Dynasty.
Seating and ambience are great, there is a whole bunch of space in there. But make sure you go early! It fills up FAST on the weekend.
Service is A-​OK, can’t expect too much at a Chinese restaurant. But overall they got what we needed when we wanted.
I was only there a couple of days ago, and my mouth is watering to go back!
Thoroughly impressed! :)

Sssoooo ffuuuuulllll sssoooo mmuuccchhh Ffffooooddddd!!! When the sign says «all you can eat» it means «all you can eat» …however be aware that you are only allowed to order 3 rounds in your all you can eat adventure so make sure you order EVERYTHING in Round 1 and then order the stuff you want more of in round 2 and then in round 3 —- if you make it that far you can order the remaining dishes on the menu or just repeat your orders.
I highly suggest you come here wearing your sweatpants and baggy shirt that you can wash the smell of delicious hotpot and sauce off after you have indulged in Unlimited Beef, Lamb, Pork, Chicken, Squid, Tofu, Watercress, Dumplings, Quail eggs, and a ton of other veggies and meat dishes that go along with hot pot!
The price is decent for dinner $ 22.95 a person plus $ 2.50 for the pot… you can share a pot or get your own pot if you are greedy and prefer to committ gluttony on your own. The service is quick, friendly, and better than you expect.
This place is MASSIVE and has seating for up to 210 people. It gets busy during dinner but I can tell you that it is worth the wait!

I don’t know why everyone is hating on this place!
My friend took me here the other day, and I must say I absolutely loved it!
Service was fast! Almost too fast! Our server was so pleasant and went out of his way to make sure I had a great first experience, even bringing us an assortment of appetizers that we didn’t request. The soup was delicious and I left so full and happy.
Love that they have an assortment of sauces you can add yourself, and the smell of the entire place was divine! I have no complaints here.
I highly recommend you try it out!

Great experience. Had the ying yang hotpot. The hot soup was pretty spicy but filled with flavour. Same with the clear broth.
Lots of meat, veggies and various types of noodles. I’m really impressed with this place!

Get your act together! Seriously! You just opened up and already orders are getting messed up or not arriving at all. Even basic things like water had to be requested at least 3 times before it finally arrived. I understand it’s busy. Maybe there isn’t enough staff (though it certainly didn’t look that way), but ordering several items and receiving half of your order (the other half just won’t make it, trust me) is just unacceptable.
To add to the service disaster, after paying for the bill, the change from the wrong table came to me. Another 5 mins and my correct change never arrived leaving me to have to get up and argue with one of the staff behind the counter who claimed I only paid x amount, which was incorrect. The matter was eventually resolved but leaves me to ask, if you can’t even count up cash properly, don’t you think it might be a good idea to accept credit and debit?
The positive is that the food was pretty good as you might expect. Whether it’s worth the 45 minute — 1 hour wait if you happen to arrive on the weekend is questionable, but to each their own. Food quality would probably bring this review up to 2.5 star (except that isn’t an option).
Needless to say, I shall not be returning to this location and do not recommend it.

Well, the wait is over! Mississauga finally has a hot pot place to call our own. I came here on a weekday, when the price drops by $ 1/​person to $ 21.99/person. Broth ranges from an additional $ 1 – 5 depending on which one you choose. There is a sauce corner in which you can build your own sauce. Although the beef was sliced very thinly and was a little corse, the rest of the meat and vegetables were very fresh. Service was average, it took some time to get top ups of water and broth. All in all, it was a good experience and I’ll be back. Now that there is some great hot pot in my back yard!

Food was good. Soup was really spicy, definitely going to try the mild soup next time. The meats and seafood tasted great. Everything was nice and fresh. Only downfall is that the service wasn’t the best but understanding it’s a new restaurant when you visit will help you enjoy it more. The staff do try to help you as much as possible, I think service will improve over time. Will come back for sure.

After seeing Mongolian Hot Pot featured on insauga I chose to go here for Saturday’s lunch. We arrived around 1:30 pm and they were quite busy. However, we were seated and helped very quickly. Service is pretty good for a new restaurant. The restaurant is very open and the décor is nice. It looks way nicer than Congee Dynasty.
What I didn’t like was that we had to pay for the dinner price even when we were there during lunch time. So regardless of the time if you go on weekends you’re paying $ 22.99/person. Additionally, you are charged anywhere from $ 1.50-$ 2.50 for the soup. I thought the soy milk was included in the price but it’s an additional $ 1.50.
By the time we left we were stuffed! The food was good and the broth was tasty. I really enjoyed the seafood options. Other hot pot places give you a limit on how much seafood you could get. However, it looks like you are allowed three rounds of orders based on the order sheet.
I’ll definitely be back!

Hot pot in sauga, finally. Woo woo!
They recently opened but it was already pretty full around 1:30pm on Saturday. The owners were still doing some small adjustments to the sign, so we heard some drilling but its OK. We paid most attention to the food, music and each other.
Weekend price is approximately $ 22 per person which is technically the same price as weekday dinner. We also ordered a round of soy milk, which was $ 1.50, and we even had to pay extra for the soup which I thought usually is included. The prices were strange but not a huge deal.
The atmosphere was casual and open. I liked the music because they played top 40. The stove tops came in two styles, 1) stove per person, or 2) shared. We were seated at the single stoves but I’m sure you could share if you want, just got to ask.
I ordered the spicy broth… and wow was I surprised at how spicy it was. Before you say «well it does say spicy», from my experience, normal spicy isn’t spicy for me. The spicy broth had soooo many many red peppers, my nose kept running haha. It still tasted delicious. They offer the usuals that other hot pot places do.
The food, service and atmosphere was great.
So glad this place opened up! I don’t have to go far for some delicious hot pot. :) I’ll definitely go here again, but probably will try the «clear» broth next time.

Hot pot… Finally in sauga!
I came here on the 3^rd day of opening and generally the food and service is decent. You cannot expect 100% when it is new and also so big. The size is quite nice and the interior is well decorated. Bright and the light fixtures adds a lot of character.
At this location, the only thing you need to stand and get your own is the sauce. The sauce and toppings are on a trolley and imo they need to situate this in a corner and not in the middle of a walkway. They have everything though except for eggs. You can’t have great hot pot without the egg lol!
The one in Scarborough, you have to get the food items yourself which I liked a little more, but getting served at this location is not bad either. Drinks are extra and you also have to pay for the soup even if you choose the clear soup.
When we ordered the soup base and the food, they came pretty quickly. The soup took a while to boil though and the clear soup base is also quite salty. The beef and lamb slices is quite good and fresh. The fish, beef, shrimp and lamb balls are freshly made in house which were quite delicious. Also try their in house made noodles… Sooo good!
One thing to mention is that we had ordered a second round of beef and lamb but it didn’t seem like it would come. Finally the server realized and apologized, which made up for the lack of service.
They also have a few cooked items on their order sheet. Northern China items– looks good and will give it a try next time.