“For lunch at school, the chefs usually make baked goods like huushur (a traditional fried meat pastry) with vegetables inside, or mashed potatoes with vegetables. They also serve buuz (Mongolian dumplings), or if we’re lucky, we get fried sweet potatoes and square pizza. Sometimes they also have fried tofu. I don’t usually eat meat at school because there’s too much sauce. The drinks are very good, I usually have fruit juices – in my opinion they taste better than soda. The best food at school is rice and seaweed, my class finishes the entire tray for this whenever they have it at lunch. Sometimes they also serve fried pumpkins, which I usually don’t eat because they have a bitter taste.”
“At home, I eat Mongolian food, like tsuivan (Mongolian fried noodles), for lunch. I like it a lot. I also like when my parents serve meat on a bone.” I also sometimes eat the same thing as breakfast, like shuultei gorol (soup with flour noodles).”
“I don’t live in a house, I live in an apartment, because I live in the capital city of Mongolia. I have my own room, but I did not have my own room before when I used to live in another apartment. My little brother sleeps with my mom and dad. It’s kind of clean in our home because we usually clean it, like once every 2 days.”
“I usually have to wash dishes, buy groceries (by myself), do laundry, sometimes iron, clean the floor (sweeping and mopping), and I also need to generally keep the house clean/tidy. I started doing chores when I was around five years old, and so I find it pretty easy.”
