- LITTLE SHEEP MONGOLIAN HOT POT For $18.99 a person, you can eat all this—and more.
According to the Institute of International Education, there are currently about 9,500 international students—a third of them Chinese—studying in Seattle. According to my (admittedly unscientific) research, more or less all of them can be found at Boiling Point at noon on any given day.
That’s certainly how it felt on a recent Thursday, when I took myself out for a lunch of hot lamb soup. The broth inside my little steel cauldron bubbled furiously as I tried to slurp the slippery, golden egg yolk up before it cooked through and lost its glow. As I maneuvered my spoon and chopsticks through the hot pot, I got distracted—trying to identify a wrinkly, possibly deep-fried piece of food (turns out it was tofu skin), panicking slightly that my lamb slices might already be overcooked. I looked up and saw what seemed like hundreds of Asian youths, all deftly stabbing their utensils between hot pots and bowls of rice while broth splashed onto my shirt.
I’m a good solo diner and no stranger to hot pot, but something about Boiling Point was stressing me out…
