Intrepid traveler, photographer and eater Uta Beyer has more on Mongolian cuisine following a recent visit to Mongolia. Here's what she writes about boortsog, the Mongolian national cookie:

"Well, over my years of travel, I have survived on bat in jungles of Borneo, nibbled on widgety grubs (giant Australian tree maggots) in the Australian outback, dined on cuy (guinea pig) in the Peruvian Andes and had seeminlgy endless meals of yak meat, butter and cheese in towns and villages in Tibet. But I think Mongolia might be the most challenging place of them all", says Julee on her travelogue mongolchine.blogspot.com.