满族全羊铺 Manchurian Lamb Hot Pot - 羊肉汤火锅

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Got ourselves some grilled lamb ribs. These were good.

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.

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.