Yesterday we decided that it was definitely time for us to get out of the house and get around the town. Since we have started playing Wii I have noticed Sat isn’t pushing me to leave the house as much, which I don’t mind, but I don’t think it is so good for him. If he doesn’t play outside for at least an hour every day he gets a little. . . well, mean. 
We haven’t been geocaching in a few weeks (thank you Wii) so decided to do a couple of errands and then hit some new caches as well as some “We’ve been meaning to” caches in our area. Well, our first stop went pretty badly. I had decided not to print the logs because we don’t always use them and these caches were local and had no hints that would be useful anyway. Our first stop was “Bison on a Bun” which was supposed to be at Chicago on a Bun down by UTC. Well, we didn’t get out until almost noon so as you can imagine the place was CRAWLING with lunch-goers. After about 10 minutes of looking like wandering idiots we decided that this just wasn’t the best time to be here so needed to come back later. 0-1.
After that we headed to Sears to go and pick up a few things. We had seen an ad in the paper that morning advertising a microfiber car care set which we just happened to be in the market for! Sat recently purchased a waterless car wash product that requires the use of 4 microfiber cloths. We have them, but they are currently being used for other things. But anyway, this package was on sale for cheap so to Sears we headed! We had picked up a few other things and were at the check out and when the woman told us the total we were a little shocked. We had forgotten to read the fine print on the ad. . . Who starts a sale on Sunday?! I mean seriously! So we passed on the car kit but Sat did score some new blue shorts and I got a belt and a new work bag. Yay.
After that somewhat disappointing trip I was getting a little tired and. . . well, in my afternoon funk and Sat was mad that we went to Sears specifically for the one product we didn’t get. We were both hungry and after a little bit of bickering (aren’t we cute?) we decided to try out the “new” Mongolian Hot Pot place on Clairemont Mesa.
We had seen this place a few months ago and wondered what it was (the main sign is not in English) but Sat had driven past it again later and seen that it was Little Sheep Hot Pot. After doing some quick Google searching we realized that we HAD to try this place! The reviews were great and it sounded like fun. Hot Pot is just Chinese fondue minus the cheese. Intimidating, but fun. I was super nervous (as usual) and as we got to the place I was totally ready to skip it. it is in this kind of seedy looking strip mall and doesn’t really look all that impressive from the street. Parking sucked too – but it was 1 pm. Well we found a spot and headed in (me so nervous I thought I would puke, but I think I hid it well. . .)
The place was AWESOME! You walk in and you think that you are in this super upscale asian restaurant. Clean lines, great pictures on the wall, plush boothes. it was just really nice. The servers were also super awesome. They told us how it worked, gave us tips on how much to order, the order to cook things in, etc. It was a really fun/neat experience and although pricey ($40 for the both of us at lunch but LOTS of leftovers), I am DEFINITELY going to have to take the next person that visits me there!
I just feel bad because we forgot to bring out camera in and though I did take a few pictures with my phone once the food got there we totally forgot to take pictures of it! So I guess you will just have to go for yourself to check it out. Oh, I should mention, Little Sheep is well known for their potato noodles and they will reccommend them. Sat and I do not. They weren’t aweful, they just were not that good. I couldn’t chew them, no matter how long I cooked them, so if you like chasing a wide noodle around a hot pot of soup and then swallowing it whole, go for it. But if not, pass.
Our Order:
1/2 Veggie Mushroom soup base – awesome if you like ’srooms
1/2 House Original soup base – super awesome
Veggie Combo – it was okay. Mostly leafy greens and cabbage. I would order the veggies al a carte next time and not get the combo
Pork Loin Slices – AWESOME! It is raw, thinly sliced pork loin that you cook yourself. Super tasty and a LOT of it! The picture on the menu, that is one serving. . .
Frozen Tofu – Sat liked it a lot, I’ll pass next time. It is like eating a sponge.
Wide Potato Noodles – just thins slices of potatoes that you cook and eat like a noodle. Not so good if you are used to “traditional” noodles. Super chewy and difficult to get out of the pot.
Spicy Veggie BBQ Skewers – I think Sat is going to sneak off to LSHP at least once a week from now on for these. He was in LOVE! Great flavor, great veggies
Darnit, another long post! The intro might be a little long but I think it is necessary to give you the info. . . who knows, maybe I will pare it down later. We really do need to get better about posting. Had we just forced ourselves to write every night we wouldn’t have these long posts! Anyway, hopefully there will be more to come later today, either written by me or Sat. We still have so much to tell! I bet you are DYING to known about the “Lettuce Challenge”.
~Col
