Happy Lamb Hot Pot | Mountain View

102 Castro St, Mountain View
(650) 386-5061

Recent Reviews

Simon JC

Happy Lamb Hot Pot is always a great experience, and this location is no exception!Great broth options and fresh meat cuts! Great sauce bar( comes with an additional cost)Go with your friends and enjoy the hot pot! After that walk outside in the closed street to experience great selections of cafe and dessert places!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Special Lamb Bone Hot Pot, Hot Pot

NilaTheCat Y

It’s ok…I don’t like the soup

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Zhen Ma

.At about 7pm on the 20th, when we were just about to order, the Chinese-speaking heroine inside informed us not to order too many dishes, not to take away the food if we couldn’t finish it, and other problems, which seriously affected my mood and mentality. I came to your store and introduced a good friend to taste it. It turned out that my friend didn’t like this feeling very much. The service attitude of the other party was not kind enough. I didn’t feel that I was a customer; or that the other party was a customer... Maybe in the future I will be with you My friend will never come again; sorry…

Yi-Chun Kuo

You can eat all you can on weekdays, which is much more cost-effective than during dinner

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Laura Carcione

Excellent Mongolian hot pot. It is not an all-you-can-eat so it is ideal for those who eat moderately. There is a good selection of meats and vegetables.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Allen Ratzlaff

Excellent food and service! Everything was fresh and delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Hot Pot, Half and Half

shane lee

The hot pot is delicious and cost is reasonable. Their broth is my favorite, Very good.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Hot Pot

Wen Clemnt

Broth, Meat and balls were are ok. However, i think it’s not right to charge an extra of $1.50 for the sauces per person.There is already an additional charge per person for the soup so they could have included the sauce with it.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

RC

Me and the boys were not happy lambs. The food quality was mediocre, and the quantity was not enough. The vegetable selection was not as good as other places. Mostly lettuce, spinach, cabbage with a bit of enoki mushroom and kabocha melon.For the soup, they don’t charge by the bowl, they charge by the person. So me and boys got one bowl of soup but were charged seven times compared to if just one person ordered a bowl. They also charge for topping up the hot pot with broth.It was expensive for the amount of food we received. Me and the boys were fishing around in the pot for any scraps and eating noodles fallen on the table.The heating element would only heat up on one side. So I had to turn it to get half heat on both sides of the pot.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Xiaowen Ding

My kid’s favorite hotpot

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rob LaPointe

Great service, fantastic broth, quality pork and red meats, and the cooked lamb Shank is delicious.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Special Lamb Bone Hot Pot, Hot Pot, Fish

Catherine Nguyen

Overall: Tasty hot pot. We got: the original marrow broth [chicken + beef base, ginger, garlic, scallions, dates, black + white cardamom, angelica root, goji berries, and I noticed a few fermented black beans], natural marbled lamb, tiger prawn, veggie combo platter (which comes with napa cabbage, tong ho [which I knew as crown daisy], bok choy, pumpkin, and some red bell pepper), enoki mushrooms, sweet corn, udon noodles, and frozen tofu.We forgot / weren't told how much comes with each item so this was a bit too much for a family of four with two kids, but we finished nearly all of it. I would say skipping the corn and tofu would've been a good amount. All the proteins and vegetables went really well with the tasty broth, and we didn't need sauces. We all had fun, one kid discovered that they really like enoki mushrooms, and I was very happy that tong ho was in the veggie combo.Things to note: Everything is a la carte, including sauces. The servers didn't explain anything and the menu could use some additional details for a few items. If you've never done hot pot, or want to avoid under- or over-ordering, I would recommend just asking your server for details/clarifications.Details:There is one burner per table, but they do have divided pots so you can choose two broths. Servers don't come by too frequently, but I noticed one standing nearby all the time, so I think it would've been very easy to ask for anything additional we needed. But you'll have to ask.The menu notes a few items as "recommended items" which was helpful, but it doesn't describe what's in the combo options, or note how big they are. So we winged it.The servers were all courteous, and after the fact, I realized that if we'd asked for details, I'm sure we would've gotten them. But it'd be nice if the menu just had the details for the combo options, or noted somewhere a rough estimate of how many items is the right amount for a given number of people. I would say you probably want to go with at least a group of four if you want a variety of proteins and vegetables for everyone.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Baby Bok Choy, Udon Noodle, Hot Pot, Enoki Mushroom

Jade Huang

Yesterday's happiness was given by Happy LambToday's happiness is given by the sad lambIt is no longer a happy little sheep that helps itself

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 2

Jelly2 Tasty

Not the best hot pot ever.Feels like they nickel and dime you on everything. It doesn't even come with rice or any veggies. Most non-AYCE hot pot comes with some base amount of veggies and rice or noodles if not rice *and* noodles.It's difficult to eat there as a couple since everything is extra. Makes it really hard to get all the accoutrements without ordering too much food for two. Plus all the platters are huge, so if you want more than one thing you're going to be saddled with a ton of leftovers.Also not knowing how it works or having it explained at the beginning, we didn't order everything we needed right away, until we noticed we weren't getting vegetables, carbs, or other sides. I feel like now that I know I could have ordered more intelligently, but A., I shouldn't have to eat here more than once just to have the meal go as expected, and B., why would I even bother to come again after the first time didn't go right?And don't tell me to just go to AYCE. I avoid AYCE on purpose because I don't like fighting the crowds of cheapskates and having my meat orders "throttled" to keep me from eating my fill.The sauce bar has hardly anything on it but they charge per person. And don't tell me it's 'cuz you get sesame balls. Sesame balls are a dim sum item; it's an odd thing to have on a sauce bar (also they're a thing that should be enjoyed fresh and hot, not lukewarm and sitting out for god knows how long). They already have a whole selection of other sweets so it's just plain weird to offer them separately. Plus they waited until almost the end of service to put out more green onion and cilantro. I expect an additional fee bar to have more choices and not have various buckets go unfilled for an hour. I'd rather they get rid of the sauce bar entirely, put the sesame balls on the dessert menu, and only let you choose 1 or 2 sauces/toppings per person than that fiasco.They don't have my favorite sauce or soup bases. All the soup bases have medicinal herbs in it which are not my thing; even taking care to order a soup base that did not mention any medicinal ingredients I still got a medicinal soup base. And the mushroom soup base was 99% king and had literally half a shiitake in the whole thing.The lamb rosette was frozen and stuck into a bed of ice and took half the meal to thaw enough to separate into slices to cook them. The meat seems "fresh" enough (considering it has to be frozen) but that's not enough to save it when the overall experience was lacking. Not to mention that fresh food should be a given, not a bonus.The service was uneven. There was a lack of coordination among servers such that at the beginning we got asked repeatedly whether we had ordered but after that it was really hard to get someone's attention to get refills or even to *order more food* - which pads your tips, guys. I feel like I shouldn't have to tell you this.

Food: 1

Service: 3

Dan Lu

Great food great service, reservation for party need to have enryone there to be seated. One of our group went to the wrong branch and was about 40 min late, they still kept our seats and was seated not long after the whole party is presence, very nice service. The food is needless to say, greatn!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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Happy Lamb Hot Pot | Mountain View

102 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041
(650) 386-5061