momo

Tibetan Kitchen · New York

Chef selecting fresh ginger and aromatics at an early morning market, blue pre-dawn light filtering through the stalls

6:14 AM

She arrives at the market before the city wakes, pressing her thumb into ginger to test the moisture.

Hands rolling dough in long sheets across a flour-dusted wooden table, kitchen radio visible in background

10:40 AM

The dough is rolled until it remembers nothing of the flour it came from.

Single momo in cross-section close-up, showing the juicy filling and thin hand-pinched pleated wrapper

2:51 PM

One pleat for every year she has been making them.

Intimate restaurant dining room at golden hour with candles lit, every table full but somehow quiet and warm

7:22 PM

By evening, every table is taken. The room is full and somehow still quiet.

momo

Tibetan Kitchen · Tribeca