Mongolia / 3 (someone) wanted to know how vegetarians survive in Mongolia)
The Mongolian diet is essentially made of meat and flour, which is combined with the addition of a limited selection of dairy products.
Since we went to dinner every night from families who ate mostly meat, out of habit, sure, but mostly out of necessity, had well-founded fear of having to reject and even often offend our guests. As you know, I'm not a vegetarian regretted that fits the need to eat meat or fish: I disgust, not even as a child I loved to eat. But do not start from the assumption that others understand and share. Do not get it in Italy, where vegetarians have all the raw material they need, let alone in a country where you have to import almost everything except for milk and meat - even if it is a country where there is great respect for animals, to which there ' is a hypocritical.
When we have agreed the itinerary and travel arrangements with the managers of the hostel and I s. we pointed out the problem food, before leaving, however, there the hostel we met some young Israelis returning from the Gobi, even though they had specified that the same needs, in most cases they had to try to eat the edible and discard the rest.
So the fact that he never missed a dinner and he never refused anything or offended anyone, we may thank our interpreter, who was always careful to let us have an alternative vegetarian we saw a couple of times the expression of almost anguished man who we would prepare the dinner, but she has always take the trouble to explain to them what to do, any aid.
Apart from the early days (when we had a little 'stocks of charges made to UB, where now you can find anything) and a few rare exceptions, we almost always ate carrots and potatoes for lunch and dinner, accompanied with rice, pasta or noodles or as a filling buuz (steamed dumplings that are usually stuffed with mutton) and khuushuur (stuffed fried ravioli), recipes Byamba ha provato ad adattare per noi - "se dicessi a mia madre che ho messo nei buuz questo ripieno non ci crederebbe". Una dieta forse monotona, ma non abbiamo mai sofferto la fame, nè ci saremmo mai sognati di lamentarci. E i khuushuur non erano affatto male. Una sera ho anche aiutato Byamba a prepararli; mi guardava mentre mettevo dell'impegno nel chiudere dei ravioli palesemente deformi, dicendomi di quando in quando: so cute .
Posso consigliare un ristorante vegano a UB (strategicamente vicino all'ostello e non proprio preso d'assalto dalla gente del luogo, ma questo non gli toglie niente), dove abbiamo mangiato piatti mongoli in versione vegan davvero deliziosi.
Naturalmente ci è capitato di assaggiare other specialties, though diplomatically say that we can not go to Mongolia for the delights of the palate. A family of farmers there did taste yak milk (very intense flavor, almost wild), we tested the aaruul (cheese flavor ... "difficult" version "chipboard" and version spaccadenti - breaks teeth Western : they are convinced that this cheese is one of the reasons why they have good teeth - I say that they have good teeth because it is not in their tradition of eating sweets as such). On the way we bought from nomads Airaga (fermented mare's milk, slightly alcoholic, the Mongols drink by the gallon) and Guanaba (inns) we have drank the famous salty tea with milk (I do not mind, meant more as a "soup" that as a tea). Tested for you even vodka distilled from mare's milk.
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