What is Mongolian food like?
What is the food of the nomadic herders in the mongolian steppes? As to be expected, they primarily eat the products of their animals, meat and milk. Those simple base materials are processed with a surprising variety of methods, and combined with vegetables and hand made noodles. The most well known dish might be the Buuz (steamed filled pockets). Among the drinks the traditional Milk Tea, und Ayrag fermented from mare’s milk. But this is just a small display out of the variety of mongolian food. Mongolia is known as the Land of Five Animals–sheep, goats, cattle, horses, and camels. The main meats are mutton(Lonely Planet states that the “smell permeates everything” and that after foreigners have visited they say “it takes weeks to get ride of that mutton smell”) and beef. In the cities shops sell: beef, hamburger, smoked hammocks, sausages, hot dogs, and chicken. “The Mongol chickens have been described as ‘very athletic’.” The city of Ulaanbaatar is offering more variety, but in th
