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Best Momo in San Francisco

“Himalayan steamers with a tomato-sesame achar that does half the talking. Kathmandu runs on these.”

Momo

What the real thing tastes like

Nepal's national obsession: pleated steamers of spiced buffalo, chicken, or vegetable, served with jhol or golbheda achar — a tomato-sesame-timur chutney whose Sichuan-pepper cousin numbing lifts everything. The steam-line variants (kothey pan-fried, jhol swimming in warm achar broth) each have partisans. Kathmandu's momo shops are the city's social infrastructure.

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The achar is the review's centre of gravity — dumplings rated good and chutneys rated life-changing. Timur's citrus-numbing buzz is the note visitors chase afterwards, and jhol momo's warm-bath format wins converts in every comment thread.

Order it here when it has

  • achar alchemy
  • juicy interiors
  • variant spectrum
  • student-priced

Walk away when you see

  • bland without the achar
  • buffalo surprises some

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