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TIL that authentic Mongolian cuisine is mutton, mutton, and more mutton. (A “Mongolian barbecue” is neither Mongolian nor BBQ.) It is so monotonous that one travel author wrote “in 33 years of international travel [Mongolia] has without question the most pitiful food of any country I have visited”.

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