Saturday, 10 April 2010

Mongolian Grille

I love the concept of this restaurant.  It's a buffet, but raw.  Mushrooms, peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, onions, peanuts, water chestnuts, baby corn, sprouts, chicken, beef, pork (freeze-dried, it looks like), eggs, noodles, sauces with names like Mongolian and Sesame Oil.  heh.  You pick your bowl size & then put whatever you want into it.  At the end of the line is a big open flat grill, in the shape of a circle.  The chefs take your bowl of raw ingredients & cook it for you right there as you watch.  They have neat tricks that they do while they cook, as well.  They walk around the circular grill w/ their sticks & just sorta push the food around, squirting water & soy on the grill at random times so nothing burns.  Then, when it's finished, they scoop it into a new bowl & send you on your way! 

The legend/history is that this is the way warriors cooked back in the day, and that they would use their helmets as bowls.  Isn't that neat?  But can you imagine - what if you didn't wash your helmet out all the way before placing it back on your head?  LOL 

With the noodle dish of your creation, you are also served a scoop of white sticky rice and a bowl of an amazing egg drop soup!  It could be from a package, I have no idea how they make it, but it's delicious!  My favorite egg drop soup so far anyway.  : )



Bon Apetit!  : ) 

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