Kidsmomo » dumplings http://www.kidsmomo.com Kidsmomo believes a bookshelf should only be bare when someone's reading what was on it, so we're all about introducing kids to books and series they'll love! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:27:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kidsmomo — Good to the Last Bite http://www.kidsmomo.com/2009/kidsmomo-good-to-the-last-bite/ http://www.kidsmomo.com/2009/kidsmomo-good-to-the-last-bite/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:24:04 +0000 Karen http://www.kidsmomo.com/?p=900 The other day, a couple friends and I went on a food crawl — which means that we dedicated the afternoon to snacking at a bunch of different places. The idea is to eat only a little at each spot, but no matter what, we always end the day so stuffed that we’re barely able to stand upright. To put it in children’s book terms: you know August Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and how he falls into the river of chocolate because he’s such a glutton? Yeah, that was us.

One of our stops was a cafe where they sold tons of fried snacks through a gigantic window opening onto the street. We didn’t know what anything was called or what was in it, so in a mad haze of greedy anticipation, we just pointed to this, that, and the other thing, and oh, why not, one of those things too. In the frenzy of ordering, I didn’t notice this poster until it was too late:

frozen_momo

WHA?! Frozen momo?!

Then I turned around and noticed this explanatory sign:

momo_dumpling

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh…

Turns out that momo is a type of South Asian dumpling! There are lots of different kinds of fillings, from goat to yak meat to cheese. But it made me wonder… if a dumpling made out of chicken is called chicken momo and a dumpling made out of pork is called pork momo, then what exactly is kidsmomo?

Yikes!

— Karen

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