The traditional Mongolian Cuisine primarily consists of dairy products and meat. Meat is either cooked, used as ingredient for soups or dumplings, or dried for winter (“Borts”).
I’d like to think that going to any kind of buffet is an act of rationalizing things which can be defined through this sentence: “the end justifies the means” (from Machiavellian philosophy). The end goal in Mongolian buffet (and other types of buffets) is to have a full stomach but getting there (the means) would require you to experiment and sometimes make you a glutton 
. BUT, on the other hand, I would like to twist it a little bit and say that even though you rationalize things, who says you can’t enjoy the means of achieving your end goal? The Mongolian buffet makes it more interesting because you decide what to put inside your bowl even though there’s only one way of cooking it. There is a variety of ingredients to choose from: meat, seafood, vegetables, rice, noodles. Have it your way,whether you want it to be sweet, spicy or savory. You can even do it more than once!
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I actually like stir-fried kind of foods and when I am hungry ( as in literally) and up for some Asian style cooking I eat at Mongolian Quick Stop. It’s quick and easy to eat.They have branches in most food courts ( Robinson’s Galleria, Gateway Mall etc..). Now this is how you execute this quick stop:
Step 1: Choose the size of the bowl. The smallest one is called Mongolian Quick box ( Php 78.00) next is Mongolian box Single ( Php 130.00) and the biggest one is Mongolian big box (Php 200+). If you’re really hungry and don’t wanna be too full, just have the single box, that would work. The picture above is a sample of the single box.
Step 2: Choose the ingredients that you want to include in the your meal. As far as I could remember, in the Galleria branch, the customer will be the one who will choose the things to be included in the bowl however in the Gateway branch it’s the crew who will do it for you. Well anyway, you can actually tell the crew on what not to include or if you want more of some vegetables, rice or noodles.
Step 3: Choose the sauce. You have the option to have it sweet, sweet and spicy or just spicy.
Step 4: Wait for your stir-fried meal then enjoy.
