Its been awhile i have not updated this blog. Because there are two weeks to Uni exams. Study load, harsh winter and learning a difficult language (script), all giving some tough time in Mongolia.
Most foreigners, particularly westerners, complain about food in Mongolia. There is no variety of vegetables here. And Mongol meal is too heavy and meat-all-the-time. But there is no good quality rice here. For me food is delicious, but less variety of vegetables is a concern. Other than potato, carrot and radish, most of vegetables come from China. Compared to our part of the world, potatoes and tomato is too expensive here. Similarly, other vegetables like cabbage, eggplant and okra are exported. Same is the case with fruits, almost all exported from China. Dairy products are very nice and cheap in Mongolia. Sutay Sai is tea with milk and salt, its like Mongolian national drink, very famous and taken with every meal.
Some Mongol foods are exact similar to Hazaragi food.
Khuushuur (Pirki in Hazaragi): Khuushuur is the Mongolian name of Pirki, but the difference is that Pirki is filled with spinach or minced pottato but Khushuur is; mutton or beef filled in a round or oval piece of dough (flour with water). Its boiled in oil. Khushuur is part of almost every meal. Its very famous, and available everywhere. While writing this, water comes in my mouth. After posting it, i am gonna have Khushuur!
Buuz: (Manto in Hazaragi): Buuz is the Mongolian version of Manto. Its very similiar to Khuushuur. The difference is that; unlike Khuushuur, Buuz is round and steamed but not boiled in oil.
Khailmaq (Qaimaq): Mongolia is the best place for dairy products. Its of the best quality and very cheap. Khailmaq is the Mongol name for Qaimaq (cream). There are different items of dairy products, very much similiar to the ones in Bamyan.
Aruul (Qurood/t): Aruul is Quroot, dried yougurt. Its also very common. Qurood/t in Afghanistan is round or oval, but in Mongolia its in shape of square. Aruul in round are found in countryside.


Kaymak in Turkish, Kaymagh in Hazaragee, Khalimaq in Mongolian
Close enough
Thanks a lot dear for your contribution. May Hazaras live in peace and progress around the world. And all the Good Humans.
Actually, Mongolian Aaruul is also Khuruud. In central Khalha, especially in gobi aimags, Aaruul is called Khuruud or Qurood, spelled in many ways. Khuruud in Khalha Mongolia usually are around shaped as opposed to squared or rectangular. From what I observed, bigger around sized aaruul are called Khuruud or Qurood and smaller ones are called aaruul. Furthermore aaruul seems to be a general term for anything made out of aarts (fermented goat or cow milk) while khuruud is a name for bigger sized aaruul!! So, khuruud and aaruul are interchangeble in its meaning!!
Uighurs also call khuruud with same meaning and uzbekhs also call manto with same meaning.
We have manto (in Mongolian mantuu) too. It ‘s a buuz without meat.
We have the word buuz from the Chinese word “Baotzi”, I heard.
I’m a native Californian who has been to Mongolia four times. I like Mongol food a lot, especially buuz, aruul, khuushuur and suutei tsai. Here’s a blog post I did about a buuz joke- http://foxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/mongolia-monday-my-other-mongol-joke/
Cool, I finally stumbled to a site about this! I was daydreaming about it this morning (well technically evening dreaming as it was evening time ) and now I discover this site. Coincidence alright. Might be checking back!
Thank you. We are the same nations. I am attending this blog. Thank you