Hot Pot at Xiao Fei Yang

This past weekend my fellow Mandarin House classmates/apartment-mates gathered together to go for Hot Pot in Shanghai. The restaurant is called "Xiao Fei Yang" -- translated by the restaurant as "Little Sheep". Check out the location by clicking here and going to Google Maps.

Here are some photos of the experience.

Greetings from the Little Sheep! (Who is about to get eaten!)




Some peanuts to hold us over until the main food came:


The guy who brought the peanuts and cherry tomatoes:


Ordering the hot pot:


Further negotiation:



Here's the centerpiece, and half-hot and half-not hot pot. This may be more precisely a "Mongolian Hot Pot". Order it by saying yi ban la, yi ban bu-la. Then grab the menu and point at whatever else you want to throw into the hot pot ...


Check out the piles of meat that arrived. And there was more on a cart next to the table:


That evening, we learned the striking difference between an uncooked and a cooked shrimp:




In addition to all the food, we probably ordered 15 or more large bottles of Tsingtao beer. Price tag: 65 RMB/person for the entire meal. Not bad at all ... enjoy!