Xilingol - Mongolian 8 Delicacies

There are many tasty cuisines in Inner Mongolia. You should definitely not miss the 8 delicacies recommended below!

1.Mongolia Morning Tea

Different from Cantonese morning tea, the most important and necessary of Mongolia morning tea is the hand-served mutton, together with the milk tea, which makes up the most authentic Mongolia morning tea.

2.Mongolia Hand-served Mutton

Wu Zhu Mu Qin mutton is the main ingredient of the Mongolia hand-served meat. It’s generally bone with some meat, hence the name, and is different from Xinjiang hand meat.

3.Xilingol Instant-boiled Mutton

Xilingol instant-boiled mutton uses Sunite mutton as the ingredient. The Sunite mutton is quite famous in northern China. The famous restaurant in Beijing Dong Lai Shun Restaurant’s mutton is from Xilingol.

4.Grill Meat on Stone

This is the traditional way of cooking in nomadic people’s life. Put the fresh lamb on the hot volcanic stone, with the hissing sound and the fragrance overflowing to your nose. After being braised, it retains the original flavor of mutton and tastes tender but not greasy.

5.Air-dried Beef

Air-dried beef is the traditional method of storing meat in Mongolia. The dried meat is easy to carry and store, and is known as "the army food of Genghis khan". In winter, herdsmen will make the dried meat of beef, mutton or steak. 

6.Butter Roll

Butter roll is a classic food of nomads in Xilingol. It is also one of the daily pasta dishes, usually eat with air-dried mutton soup, fresh mutton soup, milk tea and so on.

7.Koumiss 

Koumiss have rich nutrition and medical valuable. Local people believe that the Koumiss is beneficial to health. Mongolian doctor has formed unique koumiss therapy for treating diseases, but maybe not everyone will accept the sour taste.

8.Mongolia Dairy Products

In the process of raising livestock, Mongolian people have mastered and created their own method of making various kinds of dairy products with the milk of livestock.