Cuisine

Mongolia imports a large portion of its food due to its hard terrain and climate, and it mainly relies on canned food, cereals, and animal products such as mutton (tight matured sheep meat). If you're a finicky eater or have special cuisine requirements: 1) Make sure you're well-prepared by bringing the necessities. 2) Make sure the tour operator/cook understands your needs, and 3) stock up at the State Department Store Super Market. These are absolutely things to know before traveling to Mongolia.

Mongolians are sometimes misunderstood as having a particularly unhealthy cuisine consisting only of meat and dairy items. However, as more tourists visit Mongolia and learn about the country's sophisticated, well-balanced food, this misconception is steadily dissipating. Even if you're a vegetarian, you'll have no trouble finding cuisine in modern Mongolia, which ranges from non-vegetarian to vegetarian. Not only that, but you'll learn about Mongolian milk vodka and the unusual way of making dairy goods.