Inner Mongolian Delicious Flavors

One must taste the delicious Mongolian food when touring the beautiful grassland. The tender fat mutton, roast mutton leg, hand-served mutton are the most special flavors.

Quanyangxi (whole sheep Banquet) is the famous cuisine in every large restaurant in Hohhot. The banquet is completed by carefully selecting different parts of the sheep and then applying the cooking techniques of firing, steaming, quick-frying, roasting, stewing, deep-frying and boiling respectively. When the dishes are done, they are different in shape and color and the tastes are delicious. It is said that a regular whole sheep banquet serves a total of 108 dishes; among them, 20 are cold dishes and 88 are hot. Be sure to bring your appetite..

The second most famous dish is Shouzhuayangrou (hand-serve mutton), a delicious food popular among the commons in the Inner Mongolian region. Diners would sit around the boiled mutton served in a wooden plate, cut slices with a knife and use their hands to grab and dip the meat in the sauce and then eat. This is a very popular dish and when tourists are quests to the local people, this is a must-taste delicacy.