Morning, what thing this hotels smell like smoke everywhere. Yes
It drifts back into the hotel, but today is Ulaanbataar exploration day. Let's go one thing that's really obvious
I'm just walking around Mongolia for day and a half is that
It's influenced by so many cultures. It's influenced definitely by the Chinese because Manchurians ruled there for hundreds of years also
Russia occupied it and then for some reason. I don't know why there's a huge
Korean influence here because a lot of the restaurants you go to, a lot of the supermarkets, a lot of the hotels are actually Korean
Franchises they got compound coffee. Ye, mart the hotel
I'm staying at J hotel is actually a Korean hotel, and I found that this is really not many places that actually sells
Mongolian Traditional Mongolian Food which
consists of dumplings, a lot of lamb, stir fried noodle basically Foods that are very substantial
Has a lot of fat content so even right now the market. I'm in this big grocery market
This is the Korean market in the capital on that mango six,
This is a Korean cafe, but I think I did manage to find a well, I think is authentic Mongolian restaurant
I'll go there next I know this is not Mongolian
But it is delicious. I mean really delicious hmm. One thing that's really surprising about Mongolia
Is that it is a huge country in the 18th largest country in the world, but the population is only around three million
I was trying to film and they told me not to
This is the food court in the in the supermarket and I see pasta
And like a lot of pasta Ramen and that one stall had like really traditional
Mongolian food there were dumplings a lot of noodles that's the first time
I saw like a place is selling mostly Mongolian traditional cuisine, since I got here. this restaurant here called the Modern Nomads
That's supposed to have really traditional Mongolian food. Let's go for lunch
I'm kind of confused like a store. Oh here. We go. I
They have live traditional concerts here in June. I was a little confused when I came here
I saw this on the table, so obviously I thought it was food
And I was about to put it inside my mouth these are actually animal bones from horse Sheep camel and goats
And you throw them in the air you ask your questions
So it's kind of like a fortune-telling device like a calcium enriched Magic 8-ball
let's give this a try. Am I going to enjoy my meal here? and
As you can see here I have one horse one camel two goats and when sheep "good for the other part"
Okay
I don't know if I did that right
I wish there was like ten people here with me so we can like order a lot and eat it all
Oh my goodness here it comes
Wow
Just ate, literally a whole lamb, I think and
The food was so fatty
Then I feel like if you cut me open right now
Nothing would leak out because my blood is all congealed that was really good my first taste of traditional Mongolian food really happy
Let's go walk around it is going on over here
I saw a lot of political protest
people with Banners and flags
Let me find out what's going on. There's the great Khan himself
you know being part Mongolian
I might be related to that guy
so I found out behind me today's the last day to advertise for
for
the
elections and
The blue are for the democratic party, and that's apparently who the younger generation the young people really want to prevail
Yes that explains all the flags and banners. I saw when I just arrived in this country
I've always wished for one of these cars for as long as I could remember and what my parents got me instead were skates?
Okay, you know what skating was fun too. No, not as fun more work. Wow. This is cool. I love ancient temples and
Museums
Look at this thing
That's so cool
The temple Museum of children Lama these are in Chinese called Tian Bing Tian Jiang or heavenly Soldiers heavenly Warriors
This thing just exudes history
I
Sorry, I didn't allow any photos or videos in there, bro. So excited about seeing a washer my room, and I said washer and dryer
Correction only washer so that led to
What is going on here that is how I'm drying my clothes. I wish I never did laundry so day's almost gone
That's kind of what happens when you take a nap
But it was much needed it was I had to sleep off all the lamb and now I
Don't know am I just like just like a walking example of gluttony because I'm about to go to dinner
Because I consumed the whole
Sheep during lunch. I'm actually voluntarily going into a vegan restaurant
I'm now about to eat the thing that the thing I ate for lunch eats
All the time does that make sense this is remind anyone else of Korean banchan?
Hmm. I got to tell you and I'm being a hundred percent real here
This is fantastic the spinach
That's really got the vegetarian stuff tastes like this like all the time I
I'd be down for that
Got some vegan dumplings and something that looks like lamb, but probably isn't
it's curry
and
It's pretty tasty spicy
The thing that looks like me, but isn't me?
It's just like a vegetable meatball like tons of different veggies mixed together. The first initial taste is kind of weird
But actually it's not bad, it's pretty good. This is the veggie dumpling
It looks like it has some tofu carrots cabbage mushrooms inside add some chili and whatever this is
That I don't love I mean all I can really taste is the dough
Hey I've got an idea
Wasn't the best idea.
There's just too much dough. I really can't taste the filling. I'm not a huge fan. Oh let's try the fried dumpling.
I'm sure this is is some sort of cheese
slightly better
It is crunchy on the outside I cannot add much flavour although not a bad first vegetarian restaurant experience
would I do it consistently
No, but that was pretty tasty especially the spinach man, that was like heavenly
Maybe it's made from like heaven grass cuz I had some vegetarian food I'm gonna reward myself with a avocado