Silkeborg. Best Oriental in Denmark: Mongolian Barbecue Restaurant, Silkeborg

News flash:  December 2010.  Holiday ad with coupon for a Mongolian Barbecue Grill and Buffet restaurant in Bristol, CT. Looks like a similar setup --  Excellent! Now to get there....

Danish Mongolian Barbecue

First, the best. The chef behind the glass, who takes your piled-up plate of raw ingredients and all the sauces you want, and sizzles them up over high heat, tosses and flips, and puts it all back on your plate just for you, as you stand there.

Chef, Mongolian Barbeque, Silkeborg, Denmark

One of Denmark's finest meals.  Move over, all ye tired and trite food places.  This idea is a winner.  Unassuming from the outside, but this said "Mongolian" --  in Denmark?  We had to try it.  Inside was traditional oriental.

Mongolian Barbecue Restaurant, Silkeborg, DK

Outside:  plain.

Silkeborg, DK. Mongolian Barbecue Restaurant

Be seated, and enjoy the house soup brought right away, to settle you in.

Ingredients bar, Mongolian Barbecue Restaurant, Silkeborg

Then, go to the cold raw ingredients bar, including half frozen beef and other meat and fish strips; pile up your plate; choose noodles, rice, as you like, veggies, things unknown....

Sauce, veggie, meat and fish bar, and spices, Oriental restaurant, Denmark

Then peruse the sauces bar at the end, and put on your own spices, any proportion you like --- you can come back for as much more as you like ....

Now, scroll up again to see the chef, complete with toque, in action.

Would somebody please bring that idea back over here.  Chinese food our way?  Nothing compared to this.  All you can eat.

Silkeborg - Tollund Man: Bog Man

This is Silkeborg, on Jutland, where a small museum houses, in a glass case, a man whose body was found in 1950.  It was remarkably preserved, in a peat bog.  Murder! The people cried. See ://www.silkeborgmuseum.dk/en/tollund.html But this turns out to have occurred long ago (350 BC), in the context probably of a sacrifice by early people.  That there are conflicting theories about what happened. He is not alone.  There are other corpses in other places, including a church (a woman there, found in 1938, the Elling Woman), and at the university town of Aarhus.

First, the man:  Exposures are easy for close-ups; but become darker stepping away.  The later pictures here show our need to brighten up a too-dark exposure, too yellow as it turns out, but such is life. And death. Maybe the spirits only allow tourists three accurately-tinted pictures.

Tollund Man, Silkeborg DK, rear head view. Early Iron Age.

Tollund Man, Silkeborg Museum, preserved in acidity of bog, showing curled position

Tollund Man (Bog Man), Silkeborg, Denmark, facial close-up

Recreated setting, location of Tolland Man in peat bog 1950, Silkeborg DK Museum

Bog man, Tollund Man, full body rear view, Silkeborg DK

Silkeborg, Denmark Museum. Tollund Man, frontal side  view

The acidity of the peat in the peat bog caused the remarkable preservation, like an extreme tanning process. See descriptions of what was found, theories, and archeological considerations at ://www.greatarchaeology.com/tollund_man.htm

Tollund man, 350 BC death, Silkeborg DK


Second, this was a community.  Here is one of the pots found in the area.  We have no idea of the celestial reflection shown, nothing supernatural here -- must just be from the glass case.

Cauldron, Iron Age, Silkeborg Museum, DK

Or is it.

Mwahhahahahha ... No! Not the pot! No! Aargh.