Little Sheep hot pot restaurant in Wulan Avenue, Kundulun district, Baotou [Photo/baotounews.com.cn]

Established in August 1999 in Baotou, North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the Little Sheep hot pot restaurant is a catering enterprise engaged in hot pot, condiments production and mutton processing.

It was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June 2008. However, it was acquired by Yum! Brands Inc, the largest foreign fast-food chain in China, and was delisted on Feb 2, 2012.

Little Sheep is truly an international restaurant chain, with more than 300 hot pot outlets in many provinces and cities around China, as well as in some overseas countries, including the United States, Japan, Canada, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates.

The restaurant chain offers a new recipe for hot pot soup. It combines dozens of nutritious ingredients in a less complicated way than that of previous versions, so that people needn’t worry about how well the separate ingredient flavors will blend together. The mutton flavor of the innovative soup is less strong but still fresh. The new recipe is proving healthier and more convenient than traditional ones.

In addition, the restaurant provides selected mutton from Inner Mongolia Grassland, and the classy mutton are all at an average age of six months, fresh and tender in taste.

The Little Sheep hot pot restaurant has won a good reputation for its strict food quality control systems, good tastes and favorable price.