What kind of food Inner Mongolians usually eat

The traditional diet of Mongolians is relatively rugged, with mutton, milk, wild vegetables and pasta as the main ingredients. Cooking methods are relatively simple, with baking being the most famous. It is a great honor for the richness of the real, focusing on the original flavor of the raw materials. Specialties include roasted leg of lamb, whole lamb, hand-held lamb, cheese, horse milk wine, oat noodles, Zishan smoked chicken, jerky, Hada cake, Mongolian pies, honey hemp leaves, Dexingyuan siu mai and so on.

Traditional food is divided into white food and red food. White food is called Chaganid in Mongolian, and it is the milk products of cows, horses, sheep and camels. Red food is called Ulanid in Mongolian, which is meat products of cattle, sheep and other livestock. White food is the Mongolian food for honoring guests. According to Mongolian custom, white color indicates purity, auspiciousness and sublimity, so white food is the highest courtesy for Mongolian people to treat guests.

Expanded information;

The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has 2,781 species of wild higher plants, and the vegetation is composed of trees, shrubs, semi-scrub plants, herbaceous plants and other basic groups, of which the herbaceous plants have the widest distribution area. According to categories, there are 2208 species of seed plants, 62 species of ferns and 511 species of mosses. There are numerous wild vertebrates in the region, totaling 712 species.

There are mainly 1 species of Cyclostomia, 100 species of Ichthyostomia, 138 species of Mammalia, 436 species of Birds, 28 species of Reptilia, and 9 species of Amphibia. Among them, 116 species are listed in the national key protected animals, 26 species of first-class protected animals and 90 species of second-class protected animals.

The region has 128 species of migratory birds under the protection of the Agreement on the Protection of Migratory Birds and Habitat between the Governments of China and Japan, 45 species of migratory birds under the protection of the Agreement on the Protection of Migratory Birds and Habitat between the Governments of China and Australia, and 99 species of vertebrates of the Appendix Species of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

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