In Mongolia, there's a snack loved by Mongolians called "aarul" which are little nuggets of dried cheese or milk curds. It has a sharp, slightly chalky taste. Think parmesan powder but pressed into little balls and alone (no spaghetti to complement it). I can probably eat two or three of these curds but anymore is difficult.
Yesterday, I went out and got ice cream bars from a shop down the street. We had some ice cream bars in the weeks prior and they have always been delicious and creamy. Yesterday's ice cream bars were unusually cheap, 10 cents instead of the usual 45 or so cents but I assumed it was because in the past we got the chocolate-dipped ice cream bars.
The bars were white and looked delicious and Aaron and I had no clue something was wrong until the first bite. It was fairly creamy but the aftertaste was of aarul. Ice cold sharp cheese bars. I tried my best and ate several tiny bites of mine but then my throat just couldn't handle it anymore. It's weird to expect extremely sweet and get extremely savoury.
We've memorized the package to prevent making the same mistake twice. It's hard to read packages sometimes. You don't want to stand in the store for minutes on end wondering whether zairmag (ice cream) will actually be written somewhere on the wrapper.
mc
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Hey Aaron and MC, glad to hear you are doing well, it's not even been a month yet and you already have lots of interesting stories to tell, I love reading them!
Take care,
Mirna :-)
don't forget the suutei tsai to go along with your aarul...yum! :/
We've actually developed a taste for suutei tsai... think watery cream of mushroom soup and it goes down pretty well.
mc
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