We made momo from scratch the first time ever. By we I mean not family, but like us, people, young people friends etc. Dough it up, roll it out, hole it up, and you get the wraps, the ever so scary pieces of momo engineering that we've always avoided because it feels like so much work and because the alternative is as easy as driving up to an H-mart and grabbing all of those stretchy wraps, storing them in your freezer for months at a time until they're desiccated and crumbly, and attempting to repair the broken ones before doing a half-good job of wrapping the momos.
The momo was great, particularly good when fried, or kothayed as we call it. Where did the word come from anyway and what does it mean? We had a conversation about that, and the conclusion was, no one knows it seems. And is it pronounced with a tongue- th or a sharp th like Thamel? Is it a newari word even, because momos are newari, but newars don't do the hard th, so many questions so few answers, the food itself was great, the vegetarian mo mo. The creating of the wrappers was labor intensive, but if you've got a large surface to roll your dough out on, it's not that bad at all, particularly if you need to roll it out like twice or thrice only.
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