Share your Mongolian BBQ knowledge

[MrFilthyIke]

Moscow has an excellent Mongolian (actually more Tartar) BBQ chain. Lots of meat choices, including horse, eggs (which you can have cooked with the meat+veggies or fried on the side), lots of veggie choices, all kinds of herbs and sauces, and my favorite condiment--peanuts. I always add a bunch of those. Don't know how Mongolian it is, but I like it.

One of the few ethnic cuisines that is done very well in teh city.

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Now YOU'RE Mongolian BBQ sounds a hell of a lot tastier than the Stateside stuff...Mmmm, must go to Moscow...

 

[MrFilthyIke]

And not to sound like a broken record, but that's what I love about this place. Start off talking D&D, end up exchanging hot sauce recipes.

Sweet, ain't it.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Didn't I just say this place causes me to spend more money? Crap! Now I'm tempted to drive to Williamsburg...

If D&D doesn't break your bank, the buffet will.

Hell, I can fly into PHF (Newport News) any time I want...WHERE was this place again?

 

[Uzumaki]

Great Kahn's Mongolian BBQ is the only one I know around here. I'd reckon it's all tasty stuff. This place has a selection of beef, pork, chicken, or turkey for the meats; the vegetables available are water chesnuts (pile 'em on), bell peppers, carrots, tomatoes, onion, sprouts, tofu, and a few more I'm probably forgetting. Sauces are the G.K Souace (house recipe), soy, lemon sauce, hot sauce, really hot sauce, and a bunch of garlic. And of course, noodles, which are dished out by a waiter who will usually give you buttloads if you ask nicely for them.

Atmosphere is standard of a fast food place. No Mongolian decorations, but it's clean. The grills are scraped clean after a couple of fries, and only one dish is cooked up at a time, so you don't get any of your plate mixed up with anyone else's. It's a little on the expensive side at $7.00 for an entree and a drink, but I always cram the bowl until it's overflowing, so I feel like I get my money's worth.

 

[Desdichado]

Wow, choose from four meats, huh? (Can you detect the sarcasm?) I'm used to using four different meats -- from a selection of about 15. Beef, pork, chicken and turkey is good to start, but you need to add New York Strip Steak, Porterhouse steak, shrimp, crawfish, grouper, crab, duck, lamb, scallops, calamari, and -- I know I'm forgetting one or two -- to compete with what I'm used to.

 

[Torm]

Wow, choose from four meats, huh? (Can you detect the sarcasm?) I'm used to using four different meats -- from a selection of about 15. Beef, pork, chicken and turkey is good to start, but you need to add New York Strip Steak, Porterhouse steak, shrimp, crawfish, grouper, crab, duck, lamb, scallops, calamari, and -- I know I'm forgetting one or two -- to compete with what I'm used to.

Right - BD's makes up in quantity of selection where they fail in quality. The best BBQ's I've been to have only offered four meats - usually shaved beef, shaved chicken, shaved pork, and shrimp. And a chef that is expert with each one's nuances and gives each dish a great deal of individual attention.

BD's is good, but I always get aggitated when they sit my food on the grill and then walk away for extended periods of time - there's nothing worse than knowing from experience that I picked ingredients that could have been a masterpiece, and instead they resulted in dried up, overcooked (if still delicious on a more pedestrian level) meat.

I just realized rereading that that I am a Mongolian BBQ snob. But you know what? So be it.

 

[Desdichado]

I just realized rereading that that I am a Mongolian BBQ snob. But you know what? So be it.

Oh, me too. Which is why I refuse to go to BD's during peak business hours where my plate doesn't get the attention it deserves, and why I cringe if someone I don't already know is good is cooking my food.

It helped to be on first name basis with the local grillers and go to lunch sometime between 10:30 and 11:00 AM. Unfortunately, my glory days of going once a week, bantering with grillers like old friends and being hit on by meathead waitresses trying to buff up their tip are long gone. Sadly, the turnover in employees is greater than I'd like.

 

[FraserRonald]

There's a chain around Ontario Canada, and possibly beyond, called "The Mongolian Grill." Lots of meat choices, including seafood, a few veggies, and plenty of herbs/spices, sauces and oils. I love it. The one in twon is right by the University of Waterloo on University Ave.

Good times.

 

[Umbran]

Wow, choose from four meats, huh? (Can you detect the sarcasm?) I'm used to using four different meats -- from a selection of about 15.

The best BBQ's I've been to have only offered four meats - usually shaved beef, shaved chicken, shaved pork, and shrimp.

This is exactly what I was talking about when I said afficionadoes gave me diffeent answers. It's like the old chili "beans/no-beans" arguements.

 

[Desdichado]

This is exactly what I was talking about when I said afficionadoes gave me diffeent answers. It's like the old chili "beans/no-beans" arguements.

Which is another argument I'd be willing to chime in on.