U.S. restaurant chain BD’s Mongolian Barbecue has apparently opened up a joint in UB:
IN ONE fell swoop, Billy Downs brought Mongolian barbecue back to Mongolia and gave the exotic country its first taste of one of the most American of businesses, the franchise restaurant.
BD’s Mongolian Barbecue, a Michigan-based company that opened its first restaurant in a Detroit suburb in 1992, cut the ribbon on a store in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator in May. The restaurant is the first US franchise restaurant in Mongolia, just as President George Bush, a fan of barbecue of all types, yesterday became the first US president to visit the country.
BD’s has 27 franchised operations in nine states, as well as Ulan Bator, where franchisee Myagmar Esunmunkh runs the Mongolian Youth Development Foundation, a non-profit foundation set up in 1995. In 2004, Mr Downs and Mr Esunmunkh agreed to a deal in which Ulan Bator would get a BD’s and a portion of the profits would go to Mr Esunmunkh’s foundation.
It also means as many as 70 jobs for Mongolians.
Where or not Mongolian BBQ is actually Mongolian is questionable, of course.
And just to make this clear, to the best of my knowledge, none of my in-laws look like this.
Note: One wonders what the locals think of the "Mongo" name, Mongo being the Chinese name for the country.
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What’s Mongolian barbecue? How’s it cooked? Ingredients? Taste?
Unrelated, Korea needs to learn from Hong Kong on how to deal (strict adherence to law and order) with violent ideological scum bags.
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....20030.html
kimbob,
It is raw veggie and meat with any sauces that you want to put in the bowl and gave it to the chef who will cook it on giant steel grill with a large chopsticks. It is in many Chinese restaurant in US.
Thirty minutes until lunch…
Re: Mongo.
That’s like a watermelon distributor having a shucking and jiving Jim Crow character as a mascott.
Just, ewww.
Mongo Man’s outfit does look like old Chinese sentry !
That “Mongo” is just the abbreviation of the English word “Mongolian” methinks. Chinese for Mongolia, besides nasty words, is ?? menggu, ?? in Korean. A bit far from mongo.
Mongoman is cartoonish, but he’s not a racial caricature. He’s simply a restaurant mascot like Ronald or the Colonel.
I guess they got Mongo man from some of them Chinese/Hong Kong TV serials they show about history and war… but they left out the big wooly hats!