Ordos Restaurant

This restaurant delivers plenty of grassland favorites like puffed rice soaked in milk tea, all manner of grilled mutton and flasks of fermented mare’s milk liquor. But there’s more to Mongolian cuisine than mutton and milk. The steppe also offers up such wild indigenous wonders like crisp, tubular “desert scallion” sautéed with chillies and served cold or mashed with potatoes. Hearty oat (youmian) and buckwheat (qiaomai mian) noodles are generously sized and powerfully meaty – this is, after all, real Mongolian hospitality. To complete the experience, all tables are set in yurts, which are dim and dingy, but this, too, is true to Mongolian style.