Saturday, April 29, 2023

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb Hot Pot - 羊肉汤火锅

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, Smith Street

The name's a little confusing but these guys are Restaurant Manchurian. They've rebranded themselves with the name Manchurian Lamb Hot Pot - 羊肉汤火锅 but have for some reasons not updated their signage. Don't know when this happened. Menu's changed as well - some of the old stuff we used to have aren't available anymore. There's also a bit more emphasis on hot pot. 

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅,  lamb tendon skin 烤羊筋皮

Fortunately the lamb skewers are still on the menu. Like their tendon/meat thingy (烤羊筋皮) which seem to be chunkier than I remember them.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, lamb skewers 烤羊肉串

The regular 羊肉串儿 seemed to have lost a bit of their edge. Spice powdering was less intense and a bit more browning on the grill would have been great.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, lamb brains 锡纸烤羊脑

There's lamb brains which as I recall wasn't in their old menu. Came in a nice salty mala-esque sauce which was surprisingly light on the heat. No 麻 and not much 辣.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, yang zhou fried rice 扬州炒饭

Yang zhou fried rice - pretty bland. Needed the sauce from the lamb brain dish which did it wonders.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, lamb belly with mutton 草原肚包肉

Trying their lamb belly with mutton 草原肚包肉 for the first time. It's minced lamb that's bagged in lamb tripe - the closest thing to haggis for all the 'haggis' that they like to use on their menu which actually describes offal.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, lamb belly with mutton 草原肚包肉

Pretty good. Both the minced mutton and the stomach were tender. That green sauce on the side - I don't know what it was but it was refreshingly herbaceous and savoury. Kinda like a Chinese pesto.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, lamb ribs 宫廷锡纸烤羊排

Got ourselves some grilled lamb ribs. These were good.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, oil beijing oil flour 老北京油茶面

There's 油茶面 on the menu; something I am acquainted with from childhood as mee teh. It's mostly powdered fried onion, flour and sugar that one mixes with hot water to form a broth/paste. From experience, I know the decent ones can be difficult if not impossible to get these days because I've tried some and they're all lacking in the aroma from the fried onions.

I don't remember sesame seeds in the one which I grew up eating. This rendition even had raisins in them. Not bad tasting but the flavour didn't pack the punch I was hoping for and it wasn't as gooey as I liked.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, sheep milk tea 自炒羊奶茶

We ordered this because it said sheep milk tea (自炒羊奶茶) on the menu. I thought it would be tea with sheep's milk. Did not taste like tea. I was imagining that the milk might resemble goat's milk but it didn't as well. And it was salty.

满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb HotPot - 羊肉汤火锅, Smith Street

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