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March 5th, 2009

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Happy Tsagaan Sar!

Younghusband and Roy (mutantfrog.com) celebrate Mongolian New Year with Genghis KhanPictured from L to R: Younghusband, Genghis Khan and Roy Berman

Last weekend I met up with Roy of Mutantfrog.com during his eventful adventure in Nagoya (a soon-to-be-published post). He was just in time for the local celebration of the Mongolian lunisolar New Year festival Tsagaan Sar. We met up with CA commenter Aceface at an amazing local Mongolian restaurant, the inside of which resembles a large yurt. We ate, drank and were merry. There was traditional clothing (as pictured above) and traditional socialist Mongolian karaoke. Best of all we were treated to a performance of Khöömii, the famous “throat-singing” of Mongolia. I have embedded a short two-minute sample of a Mongolian man playing the Morin Khuur and singing for your pleasure.

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Curzon
March 5, 2009
11:48 pm
Loved the video -- thanks for the post.
Joe Jones
March 6, 2009
12:55 am
Maybe I'm just uncultured, but the video really reminded me of a kid belching The Star-Spangled Banner on "America's Funniest Home Videos."
Roy Berman
March 6, 2009
5:39 am
Were those bursts of static in the file straight out of your camera? If not, I'd try reconverting it.
Younghusband
March 6, 2009
2:04 pm
Dunno where the static came from. I am replacing the video now.
Aceface
March 6, 2009
2:51 pm
Roy certainly looked like Young Leon Trotsky with that hat.
Munro Ferguson
March 6, 2009
9:30 pm
Very cool. Did you chaps toss back any ayrag?
Roy Berman
March 8, 2009
9:00 am
I tasted a version of ayrag in Kazakhstan (with Curzon) and found it pretty nasty. I meant to order some anyway at the restaurant the other night but it just slipped my mind, as the Mongolians kept bringing around shots of Chingis brand vodka.
Younghusband
March 10, 2009
2:38 pm
Roy visits Nagoya
Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » My trip to Nagoya
March 14, 2009
12:24 pm
[...] well as Younghusband and his wife, for a Tsagaan Sar, aka Mongolian New Year, party. (Younghusband blogged about this party.) Much lamb was involved, as well as Mongolian karaoke, being made to dress up in traditional [...]