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Little Lamb

72 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6NA Full details & map

Restaurant: Chinese

Time Out says 1 Users say 1/5 Rate it

By Time Out Editors Posted: Jan 27 2010

Mongolian hotpot is a communal affair, and young groups of Chinese stream into Little Lamb to cook choice titbits in bowls of bubbling stock. The restaurant is small and simply furnished, with a dark wooden bar at the rear and plain wooden tables, each with a hotplate inset. There's a similarly attired room in the basement. Choose your stock (you can have up to three, partitioned in the same bowl) and the raw ingredients to cook, from a long list of meat, seafood, mushrooms, beancurd, vegetables and noodles. The £20 set meal is a good deal, entitling diners (minimum of two) to a stock and five ingredients. We plumped for 'herbal tonic and spicy twin-flavours pot' - half tangy, half faintly medicinal - into which we chucked lamb, tea-tree mushrooms, rice cakes, wax gourd (like sliced marrow) and pea shoots. Portions are enormous: the mushrooms were chewy and ungainly; rice cakes came as slippery lozenges. The plateful of wafer-thin sliced lamb was cooked in a trice, as were the leafy pea shoots, yet as our eating-bowls were scarcely bigger than tea-cups, attempts to keep up with the cooking process resulted in scalded tongues. Good messy fun nonetheless.

Tags: Asian, Chinese, Groups, Something different, Central, Chinatown, Budget, Restaurant

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Little Lamb details

Address

Little Lamb

72 Shaftesbury Avenue W1D 6NA

Transport Piccadilly Circus tube

Telephone

020 7287 8078

Meals served noon-10.30pm daily.

Set meal £20 per person (minimum 2).

Credit cards MC, V

Facilities

Babies and children admitted

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By Maganta - Jan 19 2012

1/5

I have travelled in Thailand, India and Africa and event the dirtiest street food stall in either of those places had better hygiene than Little Lamb.
The prawns, bamboo and squid were good but the rest of the food did not look fresh at all.
The waitress’ hands –specially her nails- looked disgusting. With no permission, she took my chop sticks and pick up a piece of crab form the table and put it back on the plate!
I am not squeamish nor picky about food but a food lover and cook often myself, this place was absolutely disgusting!