[RWebb]

"do a little digging on where these techniques came from and how they evolved."

- are we going to invade China? This style of cooking was invented by the Mongols, for a nomadic, horse-based existence. If you don't kill a wild animal, you kill a horse, cook whichever over the fire/coals and load up a saddle animal with the rest. Then you move on until you run out of meat.