When it comes to Momo's the imagination is your limits and we're going to prove
it today! -We're proving it right now.
Yes we are.
Hey there GRRR travelers! So here I am with my friend Ashish of Honeyguide
apps and today we are on a momo hunt. We're here too what...?
Celebrate the religion of Kathmandu momos, which comes in all its varieties, colors, shapes, sizes. We'll celebrate all of that. -Excellent!
We had a very brief night last night, trying to do a momo hunts. This time we're gonna do it proper! -Yes.
We're gonna do justice to this great city of momos today. Rock and roll?
Rock and roll.
Lot of dust on my camera (wipes it off).
Welcome to Kathmandu! - Thank you! (laughing)
When I first arrived, I wasn't eating it, but now I started chewing on it. It's a little gritty. It's like a pre-appetizer.
What is the shop or the restaurant that we're going to?
The Bagmati Sweets shop.
it's actually a sweet shop and it also sells momos.
So what is this place known for? -The paneer momo.
Ok.
Have a seat.
This place is so packed so it's okay that you share places with somebody else sitting out.
He's sitting out there , but it's okay to share a table with him. It's ok. -It's ok. -Yeah.
They are really famous in Kathmandu for their cheese momos. It's cottage cheese actually.
Paneer is.. it's not exactly the kind of cheese we're used to...
Like in the West. But it cottage cheese. We don't eat cow meat but we do eat cow milk.
Okay, so we should be showering (it) in tomato sauce. -Ohhhhh.
So these are like chunks of paneer. Paneer and then I'm thinking it's onions ...
It's very subtle. I can taste the cilantro.
If it were not for the tomato it would almost be... bland. -Bland -Yeah the sauce is very salty.
Paneer is ... it does have a subtle taste. If you eat it without the sauce it's subtle.But
With the sauce, I think it gives it the perfect combination
of subtle and flavors. Bai, (Asks how much it costs in Nepali) ...it's 100 rupees, so it comes to about one u.s. dollars.
For all of this? It's about 10 or... - 10 of them.
This is the commercial hub of Kathmandu... New Road.
There's a pork momo joint around the corner here.
We could go there and then we could go eat the buff momos. How about that?
Okay, you're gonna have to eat it though.. - Oh yes. I will, I will.
I know the challenge. Challenge accepted. We've got this deal then.
He'll try the meat stuff and I'll try the veggie stuff. That way, every viewer out there
is covered.
New Dish Restaurant Homely Chinese Food... that's seriously the name? Homely Chinese Food?
Homely Chinese Food.
Apparently these guys don't do half plates. I'm going to have to eat the entire plate.
Oh yeah? You're going down in two dishes!!! -If you come here during lunch time, it's one of the favorite lunch spots so..
for the new road area. -yeah . -And they're really big on these pork momos.
Not many places serve pork in Kathmandu. But you can put in a whole bunch of stuff.
This is based on vinegar. -ooh, I can smell it. - Hot and dangerous stuff right here. What you can do is you
can basically put all this stuff in the soup to make it flavored and the clear
soup is all sort of Chinese because the dumplings they have is... - Ahhhh
Ok, we're getting fusion here. -Put a little bit of this this, the vinegar with
chilli. -Okay. - It does have slightly bit of meaty flavor to it and so this is
the water that they use to cook the momos, so all the flavor goes into
the soup. - Oh and it just drains through the bottom.
Good? - Yeah. -Like it?
It's perfect. It's a little vinegary but that's... that's not necessarily a bad thing.
That's good, it's nice. It's clear. it's a clean broth it feels like.
You poke holes in it? -Mmm hmm. Make sure that soup goes inside. - So it is very Chinese soup dumplings. - Yes, it is, it is.
It's very Chinese influenced, this momo, except for the spices probably.
This is New Road. This a shopping district ?- Yeah, this is the old
shopping district. You also have a lot of really fast food and snacks shops and all that.
Narayan dai ko masangilliko famous Momo. They serve one of these ...the buff Momos.
It's very similar to the Everest Momo. But let's give it a shot. It's really
close there in terms of Everest momo. in terms of the competition for buff
momos. -Oh yeah? And this is easy for travelers to find because it's right on
the edge of Durbar Square. - And they also have buff momos and cheese momos.
How about we go for cheese veg momos? So you can help me? -Ok.
And I see right here, there's kind of like a sauce.- Yeah, a sauce. Soy beans, peanuts and
labse and the rest of what he said is a secret . Trade secret. -Ah that's what makes
the momos so famous! -As I said it's the sauce that really makes the
momo, you know, really stand out. - Ooh. -Yes... yes. -Nice. This looks amazing.
Okay, it does remind me a little bit of the Everest momos. -Yes, yes, yes, yes... so this one is big on
spices and flavors. -Okay so let's cut it open just to see what what's inside.
Okay so you said this is real cheese versus paneer cheese? Cheese-cheese.
Not paneer but cheese cheese. - Cheese cheese... - Vegetable and cheese. I would not be
surprised if this is yak cheese. I would not be surprised. - You said this is real cheese.
What do you mean? ..- Yak cheese is not real cheese. - Yak cheese is real cheese, what are you talking about?
There is goat cheese, there is buffalo cheese, there is cow cheese and there is yak cheese. What are you talking about?
I mean like CHEESE-cheese... I guess I'm meaning like American cheese. (laughs)
So American cheese is basically from the cow, right? - Yes. - So yak is like the cousin of the cow.
(Ashish is totally schooling me on cheese *laughs*)
I know but it's got a different texture and taste and thickness and.. fattiness.
Yeah true. It tastes better!
Okay let me try it.
Wow, look at that. All that goodness!
Okay, that's good too. You wanna try it?
Or you know what it tastes like? - I know what it tastes like. I'm going to wait for you to finish more of it.
then I'm going to come in valiantly help you on the fifth one.
(laughs)That's fair. That's fair, I made him eat
like all the other ones. All the meaty ones. - Finish in one shot ,come on man, come on.
Yes there you go.
I can taste it now. The cheese is ... it stands out. But I feel like it's got a richer taste?
Maybe it's yak cheese. -(Asking in Nepali) Yak cheese. That's what it is. - yeah, i really like it actually.
And also, it's not as subtle as the paneer momo. Paneer momo is pretty subtle.
I want to say it's like a cross between American and cheddar but more like refined.
You noticed these places have very few menu items , you eventually have three
items. The buff, the veggie and choila chula. The place we went to yesterday the Everest momo
they only hand one thing in the menu and people love it I mean you do one
thing really well and it's good enough.
So you have chicken momo, your fish momo, and chocolate...
Is khuwa like milk solids?- Oh milk solids, yes, that's what it is. They sell
chocolate mom buy the piece. -Ohh 75.. 75 ruppees per piece! I think we can do khuwa momo and chocolate momo.
I like that idea.
Chocolate momos. Khuwa momo.
Ok watch out calories. Watch out Chris' waistline . Wow this looks like a flower. - Yup it does, it does. -you've had this before Ashish?
No no, i've not. Iv'e never come to this place.
We've got our momos here. Our chocolate and ... - Flowery chocolate momo - Khuwa. And Khuwa momos.
Right out of the refrigerator so it might be hard chocolate.
It almost feels like a
sin that we're destroying the symmetry of the beauty of the momo for
our gastronomical satisfaction. - Whoa whoa, whoa! What's going on there let's see.... (both) ooh.
That's all like... you can see the layers. -Mmm hmm.
That's what Tinker does whenever I talk about food. Shes like.. (smacks lips) Was it cold? Was it frozen? - yeah I think it
was frozen to begin with. Chocolate momos!
Wow -Good?
Very gooey in my mouth. And this will be our fifth momo and that will be our sixth momo.
The shell part is a bit doughy right?you taste that? It's like a hard dough.
Good. As a dessert, it would probably get a three but as a momo dessert...
This would be a five. Well I mean I think this is a place
where you would probably have like.. you come with your girlfriends and you have
your tea and your coffee and you kind of have one of these and it would be like
oh you know... like a cute thing to do. That's the khuwa. It's like a thin paste. -Right that's the khuwa right
there and you also put in some coconut in there. - You can see that?
Yeah, the brown brown stuff is probably coconut. Oh and this yeah you're right
there's a little shading right there. Okay, let's dig in... I was anticipating
like sugary sweet that's like yes it's got the coconut I've got the texture I
was anticipating a different dessert like burfi. -Uh, no. Burfi they put in a lot
of sugar in there but khuwal is not.. it's just milk. -It is very creamy and milky and I
can taste the coconut. It tastes good. If I had to rate it- Ilike it, concept is a five.
As a momo, skin is a little tough so it doesn't mush together. they're not making love
to each other. Maybe like a 3.5. -I absolutely dig khuwa.
The way I came up with its idea to film Momo's is that I was actually google
searching for different foods around in Nepal and Kathmandu and one of the best
articles I came across was "12 different types of momos" in Nepal. I looked at the website title and
it was Honeyguide Apps and I knew it belonged to Ashish because we met last year
in Nepal . But also you you have this app that is also very special and I
think very socially conscious? So what we would expect to do with Honeyguide is we
basically wanna create a platform, a refuge so to speak from mountain lovers
to add people that people that depend upon the mountain,... mountain communities to come
together so that we can see for example, like lodge owners, there are
the porters, there are trekking guides that depend upon the mountain for
likelihood but then these people really do not have direct market access and if
we connect the people who love the mountain, the trekkers the also socialize directly,
I think we're looking at a lot of really amazing stories, amazing
experiences ...and some equitable distribution of income to all
these mountain communities too and that is what Honeyguides is all about.
In addition to that , we also provide if you need experience
into services but in the mountains you also need a lot of the information, high
quality, well researched information that you can count on when you
actually need it and we also specialize in that and we also bring that
scholarly mind to write about food.
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