[Sca-cooks] Mongolian BBQ

[Susan Fox-Davis]

 'Lainie wrote:

> Seven or eight years ago, in a Salvation Army in Eugene, I saw this...
> Thing. Big, heavy, dark wood table, roughly octogonal, about six feet
> across and about eighteen inches off the floor, maybe twenty-four. Studded
> all over with black nailheads, bit of old leather, dyed black, on the
> corners. In the middle was a big hole, and in the hole was a wok about
> thirty, maybe thirty-six inches across. Looked handmade. There was a couple
> of big spoons in it too. I couldn't figure out how the wok was fired, and
> how to keep from setting the table on fire, but I kept looking at it and
> thinking what a kick-ass party that would be! Take it to the war, get a few
> Westies drunk and... no wait. I don't think what I had in mind is legal...
> anyway, I didn't get it. It was too big to fit in the van, too big for the
> 500sq ft apartment, and I didn't have the $50 anyway. *SIGH* I hope whoever
> got it appreciates it...
>
> 'Lainie
> -maybe if I'd raided the kids' piggy banks...

Any restaurant supply store worth its salt will have a wok that size.  In our
area they do, anyway.

I think that one would cook with the wok over the stove, then bring it back to
this table apparatus to serve, with the diners squatting around it with
chopsticks in one hand and kumiss [these days, vodka] in the other,
Mongol-fashion.  Not a bad idea.

Selene, Outer Mongolia, er, Caid