Meat is the basis of the diet, primarily mutton, with goat, horse, camel and yak meat dishes also on offer. The local cooking is quite distinctive.
Things to know: Many restaurants will add a sales tax.
National specialties:
• Traditional meals generally consist of boiled mutton with lots of fat and flour with either rice, pasta, noodles or dairy products.
• One local specialty is
Boodog; this is the whole carcass of a goat roasted from the inside – the entrails and bones are taken out through the throat, the carcass is
filled with burning hot stones and the neck tied tightly, and thus the goat is cooked from the inside to the outside.
National drinks:
•
Suutei tsai (salty tea with milk) is very popular.
• Mongolian vodka is excellent.
• Chinese and Korean beers are widely available.
Legal drinking age: 21 (minimum purchasing age).
Tipping: Not customary, but this is changing and, if leaving a tip, 10% is the norm.
NightlifeThere are evening
performances at the
State Opera and Ballet Theater,
State Drama Theater and
Puppet Theater. The
Folk Song and Dance Ensemble and
People’s Army Song and Dance Ensemble are in the capital. Other major towns also have
theaters.
Circus entertainment is also very popular. There is also a
cinema featuring English-language films, and large numbers of
bars,
discos and
restaurants in Ulaanbaatar.
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