Potala

Another place we stopped at during the Viva La Comida festival (previously here) was Potala, a Tibetan street cart usually located in Jackson Heights that sells momos. We love all sorts of dumplings and Potala had been on our list of places to try, so we were definitely going for momos.

For a very affordable $5 (their regular price), you get 8 momos, and the momos are not tiny. We got 8 beef momos and they came in one of those large styrofoam boxes with a small container of hot sauce (not pictured for some unknown reason).

I forgot, when biting into my first momo, that they can be really juicy and sometimes a little closer to soup dumplings in that respect, so it sort of spilled a bit before I realized it. The momos were so juicy and good. The meat itself was so flavorful that it didn't really even need hot sauce, but we added it anyway because we wanted to see what it tasted like. It was definitely hot, a lot more lingering heat than we were expecting, but it was good. The outsides of the momos are chewy and doughy, but just the right amount and not too thick.

The momos were quite filling, especially after the arepas (which we'll get to soon, hopefully), so it was a good thing we got the 2 things we wanted most at the start of our eating extravaganza. We would definitely pick up a box of momos again from the Potala cart. They were delicious!