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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 10 hours agoCentral Asia is defined as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Mongolia is in East Asia.
Anyway, I don’t know much about Mongolia and can’t say anything about its food, except that they were historically also nomadic, so I wouldn’t expect much agricultural cuisine. Wikipedia seems to agree, saying “Mongolian cuisine predominantly consists of dairy products, meat, and animal fats”. Same appears to be true for Tuvans, Buryats, and Altai people, if you’re hinting at those.
If you have some particular traditional bread in mind, please share.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Weird definition then. I just called it that geometrically on my own.
Not sure about any native bread that got erased, I was just speculating. I was there in presence and saw no bread, only imported preserves of like spanish and turkish breads.
I also saw regular cultural erasure, or what seemed like it anyway, of the general local culture that used to be in that region.
For all I know it could equally be the fault of the climate or something else.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’m not familiar with the culture of those folks, but to my understanding nomadic culture is not really fit for modern urban living. So one can still have local dances and such, but generally life is gonna be the same as in European parts of Russia (or perhaps like in China, in the case of Mongolia). That’s why, for example, Kazakh apartments are pretty much indistinguishable from Russian ones, since both countries were urbanized together during the twentieth century. But different from Europe proper, which built towns since the Middle Ages.
As for bread, since they only got it somewhat recently, I’d expect they just borrowed Russian varieties. Plus the region seems to have influence from Central Asian and Chinese cuisine.