A recent post featuring a recipe for a “Mongolian Fondue” on the website of Quebec’s provincial alcohol monopoly, the SAQ, has drawn criticism on Instagram from those concerned with the amount of research and care put into the entity’s recipe development.
The recipe features on the SAQ’s Inspiration page part of their “Fondue at the Cottage” recipe series and includes such non-Mongolian ingredients as coconut milk and lemon grass. It is also complemented by sambal oelek, an Indonesian chili sauce featured in many of the SAQ’s generic “Asian” recipes.
A post on the SAQ’s Instagram page yesterday prompted commenters to decry the recipe for being dubbed “Mongolian,” some even calling it “malhonnête” (dishonest). Among them, local food blogger and Chinese-Asian cuisine specialist Jason Lee (Shut Up and Eat) commented: “If you’re going to create a pseudo recipe for the sake of selling wines, at least make it believable instead of yellow-washing a