Native Dish: Nepalese Yak Momos - NYC Immigrant Cuisine: Himalayan Yak Restaurant
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0:00 - 0:02(in Albanian) Welcome! Come inside!
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0:02 - 0:03(in Egyptian Arabic) Sit and join us!
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0:03 - 0:05(in Spanish) Try some Pollo Saltado!
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0:05 - 0:07(in Moroccan Arabic)
Would you like some soup? -
0:07 - 0:09(in Italian)
Would you like a biscuit? -
0:09 - 0:12[NATIVE DISH]
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0:12 - 0:13♪ music ♪
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0:13 - 0:15[WESTERN & CENTRAL NEPAL]
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0:20 - 0:23(Raksha) In Nepal, we don't get
to work in restaurants. -
0:23 - 0:25My mother was like,
"Oh, you're working in a restaurant?" -
0:25 - 0:27[Waitress, Himalayan Yak]
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0:27 - 0:31She thinks that in the United States,
there's no food from Nepal. -
0:31 - 0:34♪ music ♪
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0:41 - 0:45I'm from Nepal -- Mustang,
which is borderside of Tibet and Nepal. -
0:45 - 0:46[Manager, Himalayan Yak]
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0:46 - 0:47Mustang like a car, yeah...
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0:47 - 0:50very high altitude place,
cold desert area. -
0:50 - 0:53Hills, mountains,
it's a landlocked country. -
0:53 - 0:55It's very hard to grow rice in our places.
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0:56 - 0:59♪ music ♪
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1:01 - 1:04In South Asian countries
the situation is very low economics. -
1:04 - 1:08I came here 12 years ago
for better opportunity. -
1:08 - 1:11There was like very few Nepalese people
in Jackson Heights area -
1:11 - 1:15and there was only one Nepalese restaurant
-- this restaurant. -
1:16 - 1:19Nepalese food -- it's a little bit more
into Indian traditional, -
1:19 - 1:23more spicy, more juicy, rich, salty.
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1:28 - 1:30Usually in Nepal,
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1:30 - 1:32the people, they prepare food at home.
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1:32 - 1:35Most of the spices are homemade spices,
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1:35 - 1:39so they grind it, they dry it in the sun.
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1:39 - 1:41People living in the Himalayas,
in the cold areas, -
1:41 - 1:45they love to have the yak meat,
which is very sweet and delicious. -
1:46 - 1:49(Jimmy) Yak is like a wild animal,
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1:49 - 1:52long hair, long horns, long tails,
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1:52 - 1:54looks like a bison.
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1:54 - 1:56In Nepal, they use it as a pet animal also.
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1:56 - 1:59They always survive in very cold
and high altitude places. -
1:59 - 2:04[YAKS ARE INDIGENOUS TO HIMALAYAN REGIONS,
MONGOLIA, RUSSIA AND ALASKA] -
2:05 - 2:08The meat tastes a little bit
different than beef -- more tender. -
2:08 - 2:11It's not greasy like beef and
not too dry like buffalo. -
2:11 - 2:13We can make a lot of varieties...
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2:14 - 2:19Momo is a homemade dumpling
--it's a very common food in Nepal. -
2:19 - 2:21For Yak Meat Momo, we use whole wheat,
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2:21 - 2:22ground yak meat,
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2:22 - 2:26mixed with onions, cilantro,
garlic, ginger... -
2:26 - 2:28Jimbu (Himalayan onions),
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2:28 - 2:28some oil,
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2:28 - 2:30mix it up...
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2:30 - 2:33(Raksha) The dough, they have to make it
into very tiny pieces, -
2:33 - 2:34they roll it,
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2:34 - 2:37and then they make it into
a different shape. -
2:38 - 2:41(Jimmy) Steaming is our real way
to cook Yak Momo -
2:41 - 2:43because the fat,
when it boils, tastes better. -
2:45 - 2:48In Nepal, most of the ingredients,
we grow in our own gardens. -
2:48 - 2:50Over here, the Momo tastes
a little bit different -
2:50 - 2:53because even those kind of cilantro
you grow in high altitudes -
2:53 - 2:55than you grow here has a different taste.
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2:55 - 2:58Onions... different kinds of herbs also.
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2:58 - 3:02Our restaurant is actually based on
the community business. -
3:02 - 3:04This is a place where all the Nepalese,
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3:04 - 3:06Tibetan communities come over here
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3:06 - 3:10for gathering, holidays, weekend...
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3:10 - 3:13When I come in here
I feel like this is my home -
3:13 - 3:14because the taste,
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3:14 - 3:16the smell of the food,
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3:16 - 3:18the people here...
I feel like this is Nepal. -
3:18 - 3:22Here in Jackson Heights, I feel like
this is like Kathmandu Valley. -
3:22 - 3:24Leaving my country and coming here
in the United States, -
3:24 - 3:28now I get to taste
a lot of the traditional food here.
- Title:
- Native Dish: Nepalese Yak Momos - NYC Immigrant Cuisine: Himalayan Yak Restaurant
- Description:
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- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- Eating With My Five Senses
- Project:
- Native Dish: United Flavors of NYC
- Duration:
- 03:31
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