Just discovered "GO MONGO" on Saturday though it's been open a year (Doh!)...

It's right across from Suadiye Hotel, on the ground floor. Very nice ambiance, good music and delicious Mongolian Barbecue, as well as other Asian items on the menu (I saw some Thai dishes, for example).

One trip to the buffet bar is 20 YTL, all-you-can-eat is 30-something YTL, but one trip was enough! Beer and other drinks are typically-priced (5 to 8 YTL).

The waiter gives you a bowl and a flag to write your name and table number. At the raw-cold buffet, you put in as many veggies and chunks of frozen meat (and shrimp!) as you can fit in your bowl. You take a second smaller bowl and put your noodles and sauces (lots of choices: satay, hoisin, soya, garlic, chili pepper, cream, etc). You place your flag in your bowl and set the whole thing down on the window sill between the buffet and the kitchen.

Delivered to your table just minutes later: a pile of steaming noodles, veggies and meat with the sauces of your choice!

Entered the restaurant at 6pm and it was already nearly full - they asked if we had reservations so we guaranteed we'd be leaving in less than 90 minutes (Suadiye Movieplex up the street!). Every table had a "rezerve" sign on it.

Restaurant info:
Go Mongo
Adres Suadiye Plaj Yolu Sokak Suadiye Park
telefon: (216 - 410 32 23)
email: info@gomongo.com
web site: http://www.gomongo.com.tr

Hi

Thanks for the info. Will give it a try.

Sheri

Great name. Sounds good. Perhaps we should get out own "rezerve" and organsie an informal expat meet up there later this month.

Do you actually get to see them cooking on the "upturned shield"?

JC - agree with u.

Sheri

Oz: Yup, the whole kitchen's wall is glass. But I'd rather be chilling at my table, drinking a beer than hanging out in the buffet area, watching the cooks.

I'd be up for another Mongolian dinner this month - when's good?

This sounds absolutely fcuking fantastic. I'd be well up for this.

Ali: Right up your no-carb, all-protein alley - I don't think they can limit your filling up your bowl completely with frozen chunks of meat! And what with the pricey beer/alcohol, we just might still be able to understand you by the end of dinner...

I'd be up for organizing a small dinner party there, say around the middle of the month, Friday or Saturday night. Anyone else up for it?

Hi CdnRed

Count me in

Sheri

IN (how about Sat 16th of Dec). Will try and lower the tone by brining along some of the rabble from football.

I'm in, too.

Em and I would be keen for the 16th.

Since I have had a Mongolian BBQ tutorial with Cdn Red, I think I'm ready to try it. Count me in!

I have not had the tutorial but I'd like to try. Count me in.

Hi,
Count me in for Sat. 16th - sounds delish but I'm a bit suspicious - your description Cdn Red reminds me of a hotpot restaurant in China where you chose all your stuff , from wriggling live eels through bean shoots and the salted peanuts normally downed with beer, carried it across an enormous room ( stray eels inevitably flopping to the floor) and dumped it in a fondue dish. Trouble was everybody else at the table for 10 dumped their stuff in too (no such luxury as fondue forks) so the resulting mess was...irretrievable and indescribable...of course 'foreign experts' had to grin and eat all....