Mongolian Barbecue

Address:
9200 N Lamar Blvd
Ste 100
Austin, TX 78753
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(Part of Town: North)
Phone: 512-837-4898
Cost:
Type of Food: Chinese

For those who haven't been to a Mongolian BarBQ before let me take a moment to explain. You go down a cafeteria style line, and put into the empty bowl they've given you all the fresh raw ingredients that you want cooked on the big "shield" by the nice "mongol." You pick your vegetables, if you want it meat, skip the noodles, skip the soy sauce, and skip the combination sauce which has soy sace in it, and season to taste with ginger, garlic, wine, and other options, and then eat a nice healthy meal. (Oh, and if you go at dinner skip the dumplings, and check to see if the soups are safe, I've never asked since I don't care for the soup.)

When you get your bowl of ingredients and sauce up to the nice man at the grill, tell him, or the waiter who greets you there, that you need the grill cleaned, and your food cooked alone (or if your friends and family have no soy sauce then identify the other bowls yours can be cooked along side.) The same utencil is used for all meals on the grill at any given time, so if other folks have soy sauce you'll get contamination. They are happy to clean the grill, though you may get moved back a few slots in line to help keep it flowing freely.

The food is good and the staff very nice and accomodating, and at roughly $10 per person, for the meal and a drink, this is a reasonably priced dinner. (Lunch is closer to $8 per person.)