 We're gonna hold the stones? Yeah. Like, refish your way. You just picked up the sizzling stone, bro. Ow! Yo, Andrew, you gotta hear about this guy called Confucius. He's got some crazy ideas. Dude, is he the one who was talking about the duality between the good and the bad and the yin and the yang? No, it's not what you're doing. Oh, Genghis! What? What up, man? You made it over the wall? Have you ever had Mongolian food through the wall? No. No? No. No, we're going to get it. Let's go. Right now? Yeah. We're going to go right now. So you're going to invade? Let's go. OK. Welcome, everybody, to a very authentic Mongolian episode of Fung Gros Food. And you know that we cannot try authentic Mongolian food without an authentic Mongolian person. We got Tam. Tam, what up? Dude, so in America, a lot of people eat Mongolian beef and Mongolian grill. And only recently have you been hearing about Mongolian hot pot in the past few years. But what we want to do today is dive into some authentic Mongolian food and see if those Mongolian dishes are actually really Mongolian. In the entire Southern California, I believe there is only one authentic Mongolian restaurant. And we are here today. Yo, is this true? I read this online. There's a saying in Mongolia that says, meat is for humans. Grass is for animals. Yeah, we do that. Because we have a lot of meat, like 80% of it. 80% of the diet is meat. I'm excited to have some authentic Mongolian food. Yaoji di, let's go. So it's here. It shows one of the main sports of Natham, the national festival. First one is wrestling. Second one is horse racing. And the third one is archery. Instead of where's Waldo, it's where's Genghis, man. So we play like this. If you have four, then this. And if you get like four different, like this. And it means like you're lucky. Yo, Tam, we got a crazy spread here. I like, I've never seen food like this before. We need you to introduce each one. So this is hoshor. Hoshor, yeah. So it's like the most famous food. The national festival is the main food too. It's like a mix of Russian, Chinese, and Mongolian style. Hoshor. That's crispy and fluffy and juicy. That's good, wow. They will have some oil. Gonna be ready in like three or five minutes. That's good, the amount of onions and beef and the juice, watch this. Watch this. Tripple it. I'm gonna pour up some tea real quick. It's a milk tea. Milk, water, and tea, and salt. In Mongolia, traditionally, they serve a lot of different milks, right? Yeah, black milk, horse milk. We call it Eric. If it can be milked, they're going to milk it. To look. This is like bulletproof coffee where you throw the butter into the coffee. It's a very rich, like slightly salty. Which animal does this one come from? Cow. I'm the main dishes here. Wow, wow, we're gonna talk about this one. This is right now. Rocks, rocks. Those are hot rocks. Hot rocks. So this is hot rock. First, you guys need to collect the stones and then you need to fire the stones to get it really hot. It's not the fire, it's all about the stones. Why are you serving the stones? So it's a process. I'm gonna hold the stones now. You're gonna hold the stones? Yeah, like refresh your way. You just picked up the sizzling stone, bro. Hold on. It's really hot. Just be careful. Mine isn't. I'm gonna play it. Ow. Ow. Let me get that one. Let me trade you. Let me trade you, all right. You gotta take this one. Oh, it's really hot. That's hot. So after you burn your hand, we're gonna eat the meat. Lamb that was cooked with rocks. Yeah. Hot hot. Hot hot. Hot hot. Hot hot, yeah. No predominant spice. It's just straight to the earth. Wait, wait. This came with the hot hot, right? Yep. Okay, so how do we eat this? So it's a flour. Wow, look at this. Look at this. Unravel this. I'm gonna unravel this for you guys. You put the meat and then while at it later, you put the vegetables and then you put the flour on the top. So you just steam it. Oh, you put the flour on top. So let's go to this. So long. Looks like a stir-fry kind of chopped up noodle. And this is some battle food, man. You got to. David, we gotta fight after this. And we gotta get into fighting. Fry the meat and the vegetables first and put some water and then put the noodles on the top and steam it for a while. And then you just, check it out. Check it out. You guys know this book, right? Dumplings. It's in Chinese and Baozhi, right? Yeah, Baozhi. Oh, so it's the same word. It's the same word. Did you grab it with my hand? Yeah. Oh my gosh, this is huge. Look. Yeah, it's a piece of books. Books. So this is more like a moon. Okay, you see that like a moon, right? Like a, it's called sheep. And then there's like a, just a round of books. Like a circle one. Flavor between green onions, white onions, and the beef. Yo, this is really good. So this is Baozhi. So I'm going to use this with the milk tea. You know, like boil it with the, like a milk tea. You boil it in the milk tea. Yeah. Okay. So it's more like a healthy air food. You just dropped that dumpling into your milk tea. I've never seen that before. So you guys pour the milk tea on some dishes. Yeah, some, like day after, we just make some hot milk tea and just pour it inside. I'm dropping it in my milk tea. I'm going to have one regular too. I'm trying my milk tea dumpling. It's different now? Yeah, way more like moist. Mm, famous soup in New York. That looks great. It's called puta. Puta, puta, puta. Puta, puta. Okay. It's like a mix of so much food inside. So there's some noodles. Oh, some clear noodles. Meatballs, and sliced meat, and potatoes. When would you eat this? Like after hangovers. Okay. Oh wow. This is that Mongolian pho. Yo, it's crazy. It almost smells like a pizza. That just warms up my soul right there. What about this stuff? Is it the salad? Is that potato salad? Yeah, it's a potato salad. Is that traditional? It's Russian influence. Oh, Russian potato salad. So this is Gulesh. It's not Mongolian. Came in when the Russian influence came in. For like 28 years ago, there was a Soviet Union. It's like more Russian influence, you know. Everybody got to learn Russian, right? Wait, Mongolian? Your parents speak Russian. Mongolia was part of the Soviet Union. This is a great transition point to talk about the Mongolian identity, because from my research, there were so many different nomadic tribes up there, and then they all kind of got mixed into one, right? By Genghis Khan. By Genghis Khan, okay. Genghis Khan unified them as one culture. It made Mongolia. It made Mongolia. Mongolian pride. It was established in 1206. But in Mulan, that's not Genghis Khan. More than Shengyu. No, Huns is like way back. Oh, it's way back. What do you think is the future now? Like what do people want? Because it is kind of like viewed as this like East Asian country. You guys look like a Japanese, a Korean, or a Chinese, but with like maybe like kind of like a twist, right? I think it's gonna be like safe and how do you say preserve? Preserve the nomadic lifestyle forever. Right, you think that that is the destiny of Mongolia? Yeah, that's the destiny. To preserve this nomadic lifestyle that existed thousands of years ago, and it will continue to exist. Talk to us about the Mongolian wrestling. Every sumo like the champions, I'm on going right. I heard that in Japan. So when a wrestler comes in, it's like, everybody's like, you know, getting proud and stuff. Cause they are like always big guys. I heard Genghis Khan was very open to different religions when he was. Yeah, it's not the religion anymore. It's like more way of life. Yeah, because if you were a shaman and you would have a spirit, the spirit comes into your body and you just talk like, you know, you talk to a person and you ask for real stuff, you know. Oh, okay. And he tells the real stuff. Tell us about your life in Mongolia cause you were actually a TV producer. Oh yeah. I had a TV channel, like a TV producer and an advertising agency. So I do graphic designs, videos and the TV contents and stuff. All the modern stuff. Modern stuff. So I tried to like develop the urban culture in the back of Mongolia. Mixing with the like ancient Mongolian cultures. They say Mongolian grill, like you go to the mall. They have a place that I actually like to go to called Great Khan. Is it the whole grill thing that's not authentic? If you go back to the 13th century, it's invented by, so the warriors camp anywhere. So they just put the shield, you know, the big, big shield and put the meats and just chop it with a spoon. It's almost like taking your hat off and then just cooking with your hat. That's a hot one. Do you think there's anything that Asian-Americans can take away from the Mongolian attitude you guys do, you know? Like, media is the big power now. So we just need to spread the cultures and stuff, education on that. You know what it is? How about this, how about this? We could be more Mongolian or Genghis-like in spreading our culture. Not in attacking though. Not in attacking physically. Aggressively, aggressively spreading our culture. Do you got any projects that you, cause I think that a lot of young Mongolian Americans are gonna see this video. The name is Ancient Urban Kit. So ancient, as we talk, this is the history. So I'm a kid from an ancient history country. Ancient country, right? And I'm an urban kid. So like it's a mix of ancient urban kit. So I'm doing a, same as you guys, YouTube show. Oh, okay. Yeah. So targeting some stuff. Is it gonna be a Mongolian or English or both? Both. Okay. So I'm gonna target Mongolians, educate some urban culture. Okay. Do some ancient culture. Just the fact that you came here and said, you know what, I'm gonna start my own Mongolian English media station. We'll publish it right now. Ancient Urban Kit. Ancient Urban Kit. I think you know what it is. Maybe in a very classic Mongolian fashion, your actions speak a lot louder in your words. Thank you. Love. Aren't you guys, thank you so much for watching that Mongolian episode of Fumble's Food. Huge shout out to Tim. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Oh. What is that? It's like, thank you. Barca. Barca. Tim at auk.world. Let us know in the comments below and also if there's any other cuisines around the area that you guys want us to try and delve deep into that are very interesting, let us know in the comments below too. All right, everybody. Thank you so much. This is Tim, David, Andrew from The Fun Grows. We just ate Mongolian food. Until next time, we out. Peace. So thank you for having me, guys. And I'm talking to the viewers and maybe I talked about wrong things or I don't know, like, how did they do so bad and good stuff? Right, right, right, right. I hope you guys will understand my, like, perspective. Perspective. And opinion. Also my English, you know. He just got here three months ago, okay? Maybe the way, you're saying maybe the way you said things. Said things wrong or, I don't know. So if some of the nuance or the detail got messed up, you're just like, hey, man, forgive me. Yeah, forgive me. This is just one of the many Mongolian people in the world, but he did share his opinion today. So thank you, Tim, and thank you for showing us this food.