0 a type of Tibetan, Nepalese, or North Indian dumpling (= a small piece of dough or pastry) that is filled with meat, fish, or vegetables with herbs and spices and cooked in steam:
One Himalayan specialty is the momo, a dumpling stuffed with vegetables, cottage cheese or minced yak meat, beef or pork.
As an appetizer at a white-tablecloth restaurant, the momo were plump but too heavy, enveloped in dough that was too thick and had a reheated, rubbery texture.
What caught the palate most of all was the yak meat and spice-filled momo, dumplings that no one seemed able to stop eating.
