On <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/thirteenkiller/275360.html" title="цагаан толгой (thirteenkiller) wrote...">her/his LJ</a>, цагаан толгой writes:

<quote>THEN, at six, I get to go to a party at my Mongolian teacher's apartment. She's gonna feed us terribly yummy Mongolian meat dumplings, some steamed and some fried. Oh Mongolia. How can the American versions of your food be so delicious? I'll tell you how. Mongols here use regular beef instead of GIANT CHUNKS OF UNADULTERATED MUTTON FAT.</quote>

Pretty much the same thing could be said of Chinese food.  Asa keeps raving about New York City, and I would say it's all about California.

Oh, and check out the other posts on that LJ.  This guy/girl is pretty hard-core about Mongolia.  One example: <q>I'm taking third year Chinese AND second year Russian in the fall! Woo wee!  And I'm taking third year Mongolian! And classical Mongolian!</q>  Yikes.  Studying Mongolia, so learning the languages of its two neighbors as well?  Pretty hard-core, if you ask me.