Source of this article: Taken from readers' contributions!
1: How to go to Mongolia is better, first take a car or plane to Erenhot, Inner Mongolia, and then take a bus from Erenhot to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, you can buy tickets directly online, or you can buy it on the spot at Erlian International Bus Station, there are not many people in the off-season and you don't need to queue up, there should be more people in the peak season, the bus for the return trip from Ulaanbaatar, you have to go to Ulaanbaatar to buy, or tapatrip Book in advance, keep warm before you go, try to wear more clothes and a hat, there is no air conditioning on the bus, it is really cold.
2: The price situation in Mongolia, vegetables are more expensive than in China, meat and dairy products are cheaper than in China, I feel that it is a paradise for meat eaters, vegetarians are not, for example, chili peppers are sold for 58.6 yuan a kilogram (27,900 mnt), and all kinds of mutton set fried rice noodles are only 10 or 20 yuan, the price I divide into 3 large pieces, the first one says the price of vegetables, fruits and meat, the second says the price of food, the third price of daily necessities, not much to say to take a look at it specifically.
The beef sold in the Mongolian vegetable market is like no money, 30 yuan per kilogram, a total of 14,000 MNT, this yellow fat beef looks very delicious at a glance.
The chili peppers sold in the Mongolian supermarket, because I am a southerner, I still want to eat a little chili pepper over there, but why are the same vegetables selling chili peppers so expensive, a kilogram of 27,900 MNTU (58.6 yuan), who eats this chili.
Sunflower oil sold in Mongolian supermarkets, this is indispensable cooking oil as long as you cook at home, a small pot is 5090 MNT, which is equivalent to 10.7 yuan, sunflower oil I am rare, generally like our family is buying peanut oil, as well as rapeseed oil, especially rapeseed oil when I was a child to cook my mother loves to use this, stir-fry is very fragrant.
There are also a lot of kimchi in the supermarket, all of which are kimchi imported from South Korea, and a box is 7790 mnt, which is equivalent to 16.3 yuan, but the amount of this kimchi is really small.
Small tomatoes are 4890 mnt a kilogram, which is equivalent to 10.2 yuan, and this kind of small tomatoes are now basically eaten as after-dinner fruits, or put in vegetable salads, and are rarely used to make dishes.
One of the local breads sold in the supermarket is 1850 MNT, which is equivalent to 3.8 yuan, and most locals buy it for breakfast.
Oranges are 5500 mnt a kilogram, equivalent to 11.5 yuan, winter is almost the season to eat oranges, mandarins, rake oranges and the like, every New Year, parents will put these fruits in the living room at home, and some peanuts and melon seeds, and relatives and friends will come to entertain them when they come to pay New Year's greetings.
After reading the vegetables and meat products sold in the Mongolian vegetable market, let's take a look at the price of local food for easy understanding.
This is a lamb stew set sold in a restaurant in Ulaanbaatar, which costs 22 yuan (10,400 montu) and contains shredded potatoes and braised lamb, a bit like our rice bowl, just pour the dish directly on top of the rice.
This is the mutton noodles on the left, a bowl of mutton noodles is almost all meat noodles can not be seen, is it rare to see such a situation where there is more meat than noodles, one is 19 yuan (9032 mnt), the right is the common vegetable salad, one is 15 yuan (7131 mnt), 2 together cost 34 yuan (16164 mnt).
This is a Mongolian mutton and vegetable soup, which costs 22 yuan (10,400 MNT) and contains carrots, mutton and potatoes.
This is a stir-fried mutton set, and it costs 22 yuan (10,400 MNT) to eat one serving, which is similar to the stewed mutton set already introduced above.
If you don't think enough lamb is enough, then half a large lamb chop like this in Mongolia is only 100 yuan (47,500 MNT).
After reading the price of food in Mongolia, I believe everyone can see it at a glance, let's take a look at the price of daily necessities.
This is a face towel sold in the local supermarket, the red towel is 83 yuan (39,000 mengtu) and the yellow towel is 41 yuan (19,000 mengtu).
The prices of the three kinds of laundry detergent sold in Mongolian supermarkets from left to right are 23.95 yuan (11,300 mengtu), 64.78 yuan (30,700 yuan), and 47.49 yuan (22,500 mengtu).
3: The oil price in Mongolia, diesel is 3600 MNT a liter, which is equivalent to 7.5 yuan a liter, and the oil price of 92 is 2520 MNT (5.3 yuan a liter), and 95 oil is 3790 MNT (7.9 yuan a liter), I don't know what you think of this oil price, is it expensive or cheap.
4: In Genghis Khan Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the sky has just finished the goose feather university, the ground is thick snow, and then I happened to see a lot of people wearing Mongolian traditional costumes walking there, I was curious to run over and take a look, there was no one around, as if I was the only one standing there stupidly taking pictures, the weather was really cold, more than 20 degrees below zero.
I don't know if you have found a problem, that is, the clothes they wear are a bit like the clothes of a certain dynasty in our ancient times, the more I look at it, the more it looks, the more it looks, but I can't remember where it is.
5: In the suburbs of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, many local people like to raise this kind of puppy, almost every herdsman has one, leading the puppy to wander around in the snow, these puppies are not afraid of the cold.
The clothes worn by the local herdsmen in Ulaanbaatar are similar to those of the people in the Inner Mongolia grassland, there is not much difference, and they are so happy to look at.
6: I walked around the city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, went to the National University of Education, there are many kiosks on the road, these canteens are very similar to our canteens in the late 80s and early 90s, there are many snacks that only the post-70s and post-80s have eaten, although the commissary is relatively simple and simple, but the cleaning is quite clean, in the commissary I also met a young lady who can speak Chinese, in the local vegetable market and supermarket I actually did not see the sale of lamb rolls, is it that the people of Ulaanbaatar do not eat this?
This is the Mongolian National University of Education, and it looks like it's similar to the junior high school I was in when I was studying, because it's relatively small and not very big.
I didn't know what it was after looking at it for a long time, it felt a bit like the entrance of the subway, a circular underpass.
This is the commissary on the side of the road in Ulaanbaatar, which is different from the big supermarkets in Mongolia, where there are only a few big supermarkets, not many.
The Mongolian lady in the commissary is a cashier, but she can speak Chinese, and her Chinese is learned from customers by herself, because many of the people who come to buy things are Chinese, and when she listens more, she will naturally speak a little Chinese daily language.
7: After seeing so much life in Mongolian cities, let's take a look at the life of the local rural people, the local herders basically live in yurts, and generally rely on firewood for heating in winter, and there is no heating in the yurts, just like the yurts in the picture below.
The herdsmen's yurt is also where I live
8: The local herdsmen eat actually quite simple, basically potatoes, mutton, carrots, cabbage, and chaotic vegetables, and they don't have a variety of steaks like what they see on the Internet.
Mongolian local rice
9: The herdsmen's children, basically put near the house for them to play, when it is time to eat, they will come back to eat, which reminds me of when I was a child I lived in the countryside, adults have to be busy with the work in the field during the day, so there is no time to care about me and my sister, every day in the field, I and my sister when we were hungry to cook and eat, at that time it doesn't matter whether it tastes good or not, as long as you can eat a full meal, it is already very good, now I think about it is still very nostalgic, although there is no money, but I feel very happy.
Twin Mongolian little girls from herdsmen's family
Twin Mongolian little girls from herdsmen's family
10: I went to a local herdsman's house, did not go empty-handed, brought a little food, this herdsman sister is still very enthusiastic, seeing us cold and shivering, quickly ready to make us a cup of tea, Mongolian herdsmen's tea, and ours is different, we are directly take the tea to drink, and they have to knock the tea cakes, break the tea cakes before making tea.
The eldest sister of the Mongolian herdsman is knocking on tea cakes
11: The herdsman's eldest sister also raised some sheep and calves at home, usually she is alone in the family to take care of these work, her husband works in Ulaanbaatar, because of the work in the city, the income is a little higher, the income of the local ordinary people, only more than 1,000 yuan a month, and working in the big city may exceed 2,000 yuan, and you can mail money to home once a week.