Hot pot spots you can’t miss

The exterior of Little Sheep in San Gabriel.

Diners gather around a self-cook station/table at Little Sheep in San Gabriel.

A closer look at at a dual hot pot at Little Sheep in San Gabriel.

Yuxiao Yang dines at Little Sheep in San Gabriel.

A steaming hot pot at Little Sheep in San Gabriel.

A cornucopia of ingredients ready for the hot pot at Little Sheep in San Gabriel.

Meat and vegetables, ready and waiting at Little Sheep.

At Kagaya in Little Tokyo, a table is set for Japanese shabu shabu.

At Seoul Garden in Koreatown, prime beef and greens is encircled by pan chan plates and ponzu dipping sauce, at right.

Prime beef and a plate of greens and other veggies, ready to go into the hot pot at Seoul Garden in Koreatown.

Prime beef and vegetables are prepared at Seoul Garden in Koreatown, which specializes in Korean hot pot.

A gruel, or porridge, is prepared in the remains of a prime beef hot pot at Seoul Garden in Koreatown. The final stage of the hot pot meal, the porridge includes rice, dried seaweed, an egg and sesame oil.

Exterior of OC & Lau in Garden Grove, specialists in Vietnamese hot pot.

The Nguyen family prepares a fermented fish hot pot, a traditional Vietnamese dish, at OC & Lau in Garden Grove. It comes with a boiling pot of broth, the raw fish and vegetables and noodles.

A plate of escargot with peppercorn at OC & Lau in Garden Grove.

Chilean sea bass at OC & Lau in Garden Grove.

Chilean sea bass is ready for the hot pot at OC & Lau in Garden Grove.

Chilean sea bass hot pot at OC & Lau in Garden Grove.

OC & Lau’s Chilean sea bass hot pot.

Chilean sea bass at OC & Lau in Garden Grove.

Suki Time, a Thai restaurant in Lomita that serves hot pots.

Two broths at Suki Time: tom yum on the left side of the pot and Thai herb broth with prime beef. The hot pots come with broth, a plate of raw meat, cabbage and other vegetables, and rice.

The tiger sauce is one of the many sauces on the condiment bar at Suki Time.

Two broths, the tom yum with pork belly, left, and Thai herb broth with prime beef at Suki Time in Lomita.

The menu at Boiling Point, a Taiwanese hot pot spot, which has several locations, including .

Diners at the Boiling Point.

Boiling Point serves a House Special hot pot - with sides - which comes with Napa, fermented tofu, sliced pork, enoki mushroom, kamaboko, pork meat balls, clam, quail egg, pork blood cake, pork intestine, nira, preserved vegetables, tomato and cilantro.