Mongolia is place of meat and milk. Meat in the winter (mostly sheep) and dairy in the summer. They sometimes use some veg, but in so small quantities it is actually seen as spice ( they use small wild garlic and onions in soup). This is their traditionnal way of eating and they want to keep it like this.
There are a lot of chinese/mongolian there too, and they love vegetables, and they love mixing many different ingredient/veg for colourful dishes. Many also have gardens where they grow things. The mongolians are very suspiscious against the chinese way of eating.
They think the reason that the chinese eat so many different ingredients, is that he is POOR. yes, they truly believe this. They say, the chinese eat all these different veg, because they cannot afford to be selective, that is, to eat proper food, real food, like sheep.
The mongolian they say, do not have to eat leafs and things like that because they can afford to eat only the best: meat and dairy....
they also think that veg are very dirty, because they grow on shit....(manure...) and this really scare them. They'll make sure to stay away fron such dirty things as vegetables. (even the most traditionnal mongolian nomads have no idea that manure can be used to fertilize... they don't actually care, since they are nomads, not growing/eating veg)
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