MONGOLIAN FOOD

Ever since I moved to Kamloops one of the things that I really wanted to do is to try foods from different parts of the world and every time I walked by Victoria Street downtown there is this restaurant that always caught my eye.

HOJA

The restaurant is called Hoja Mongolian Grill and I don't know why I found the ''HOJA'' part hilarious. Anyways, seeing this restaurant every time as I walked downtown made me crave Mongolian food because it is something I had never tried before. So one day, my friends and I  decided to give this place a try. We go into the restaurant and I must say the set up was neat and fantastic.

Inside HOJA

My friends and I were really excited once we got right in and immediately went to grab food as we had gone in during the buffet hours. Mongolian restaurants operate in a very unique way and this is due to the fact that they let you pick everything you want eat in raw form prior to cooking them in front of you while you watch.There were like 15 different items that we had options to pick from. These options ranged from a variety of meats to vegetables and also included different types of pasta not forgetting the most popular Asian food which is rice. You get to pick all these types of foods in raw form according to your tastes and preferences and choose spices along with different sauces and oils for the whole mixture. After picking everything we would like to eat, we headed to the chef who was at the front of the restaurant who artistically stir fried our food until it was all ready.

Highly customizable food selection process

The Chef stir frying the food

Once the food was ready, we went to eat and my biggest fear was the fact that I had mixed things without any thoughts during the food selection process but to my surprise it tasted fantastic and I absolutely loved it. It felt like a crazy scientific experiment where one just mixes things for the sake and ends up making something amazing. I had a bite of my friends food too and I must say theirs was amazing as well. The most interesting fact is that all our foods tasted different but the consistent bit of it was the fact that all tasted delicious. WE ALL LOVED IT!!

My Experiment.

I came to the conclusion that once can never get tired of eating at this restaurant because of the high levels of customization. This enables you invent different tastes based on the mixtures you create and there are thousands and thousands of tastes you can create with different forms of customization. For people who watch what they eat, this is the perfect restaurant for you as you handpick what you eat in proportions you choose to and you also get to regulate amount of oils,sauce and spices to add to the mixture.

I must conclude by saying Hoja Mongolian Grill is a fantastic restaurant and it's a place where I am definitely going back.

A+ restaurant

P/S I am now hungry -_-