Dehradun, Nov. 1 -- Culinary Chronicles

It's all about Momo - Pleated little white dumplings steamed, sauteed or fried are dominating the Indian streets.

Momo would not be as fashionable in their lands of origin as they are in India these days. Their lineage goes to Tibet but their counterpart foods exist in Nepal, Bhutan, Ladakh and their cousins in Japan are called ghoza, buuz in Mongolia, baozi in China, mantu in Afghanistan, mandu in Korea and manti in Turkey.

Might be sighted at many nooks and corners in the present day, but the only place that served good momo till the early nineties was at Amitash, The Rice Bowl on the Mall Road by Yangchen Lhatsang, or the local Tibetan vendors sold them outside Wynberg-Allen School only during...