New Delhi Street Momos---Chinese/Nepalese/Japanese food In New Delhi……

New Delhi Street Momos---Chinese/Nepalese/Japanese food In New Delhi……

Here in New Delhi, people find it china’s snack, where as I find completely Tibetan and Nepalese snack served in Nepal, Hong Kong and streets of china.

Served hot on paper plates from the small stove pantry having small water steamer. You can find them in every corner of the street. So popular with kids and young crowd that they can eat instead of full meal in the evening.

Momos and dumpling have basically similar way of steam cooked fast food from Far East. But in India, especially in New Delhi, it is like second best selling snack on the streets.

We have thousands of small vendors on the streets of New Delhi .It is very reasonably priced, as only INR 4 FOR ONE PIECES, MEANS ONE CENT ONLY. On other hand in medium sized fine dine restaurants you can pay half a dolor for one pieces and in fine dine you can pay one dollar or INR 50 for one pieces.

But most strange part of this dish is it is selling like hot cake, because of fewer prices, different taste, easily available. 

I DONOT KNOW? But what I know that I have seen small food production houses, in west Delhi making thousands of vegetable momos every day for small street vendors those buy in bulk and cost on INR one. It is very strange think I have never seen like this before in Indian food industry. Momos has become a small scale industry in New Delhi, here with few hundred INR one can start a business and can make living of their family easily.

Untrained cooks, UN professional entrepreneurs and unemployed youth can make 20-50 USD or 500 to 2000 INR in a day or you can say only in 5-6 hours evening time sales.

SERVING TIME IN INDIA—EVENING 5 TO 11 PM

SERVED ---- STEAMED AND FRIED WITH SOUP OR THICK SAUCE OF GARLIC AND CHILLY.

SERVED---- 4 TO 8 PIECES PER ENTREE PLATE

PLACES TO EAT-----

 TIBETAN MARKET, CHANAKYA PALCE, EVERY STREET IN SHOPPING AREA, FINE FINE DINE CHINESE RESTAURANTS…In counting thousands of street vendors.

Normally in Nepal, China and Japan this snack is served in morning, as breakfast, but in New Delhi, we have very less breakfast eat outs, so it is available in the evening only, and most popular eat out in New Delhi is Tibetan refuge settlement on the bank of river Yamuna, near Kasmiri Gate Metro Station. Second best place in Delhi is Chanakaya  Puri shopping complex, here we have 12-15 shops those are the earliest momos eat out restaurants, it is South of Delhi and ideally located in the diplomatic area of the nation.

Otherwise, you can find at least 10-12 street vendors in every shopping area of the city doing brisk sales, in the evening time. Also find street vendors in front of any college or University in the city doing good sales of steamed vegetable and chicken momos.

BEST FINE DINE CHINESH AND JAPANESE RESTRURANTS IN NEW DELHI—almost every five start hotel serves momos and dumpling,.

As dumplings are basically made out of raw fish as filling and outer overlapping with steamed rice. Momos have steamed chopped vegetable or meat as filling and outer layer made out of flour. Both dishes are best served after steamer of water. Normally served with soup and sauce made out of garlic red chilly and china’s spices.

Momos are also called Tibetan dumplings. (The word "momos" is pronounced with the same "o" sound as in "so-so.")

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Momo (dumpling)

The Tibetan word momo is a loanword from the Chinese mómo

Momos are a traditional delicacy in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling district and Ladakh. They are one of the most popular fast food in Nepal and many other South Asian region populated with people of Nepali origin and people of hilly origin. They are also common in places with noticeable Nepalese and Tibetan diaspora, such as Assam, Delhi, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal.

Momo: Nepalese baked well

Momo (Nepali: म:म:Tibetan: མོག་མོག་, Wylie: mog mog; ) is a type of pastry native to Nepal as well as among the Tibetans. It is similar to the Mongolian buuz or the Chinese jiaozi.

The Tibetan word momo is a loanword from the Chinese mómo (馍馍)

MOMOS Recipe

Dough for wrappers:

2.5 cups All-purpose flour
1 tablespoon oil
1 cup water
Pinch of salt

Dough
In a bowl combines flour, oil, salt and water. Mix well; knead until tight in texture, about 8-10 min.

Filling for Veg

Cabbage is used a lot in New Delhi; just chop it in small size season with salt green chili and black paper.

Filling for non veg

Take chopped and steamed pieces of fish or chicken or lamb or pork, season it well as per your Chili

Preparations

It is tricky part you need skilled hand to make 4-5 inch ball shape with rolled dough. Than fill you’re filling close the ball shape dish. Steam for 10-12 minutes serves with chilly sauce or soup.

You can also fry them; no deep fry just swallow fry

In china they make filling out of stocked fish mixed with chicken egg both yellow and white.

In Japan, they use rice as outer wrap and raw fish as filling server with sauce made of vinegar and garlic etc.

By Shailesh Sharma Pokhriyal….

.19^th Nov.2011, while going out to eat kebabs, but find says Momos…