Himalayan Momo Nepalese Brand Dumplings made in the USA with chicken. I dipped them in tomato based chili sauce. I ate a bunch yesterday with the same sauce plus tomato based sesame sauce with chili in it. The only real difference is that the sesame sauce was kind of orange and kind of hot, and the chili sauce was red and a lot hotter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(food)
https://himalayan-momo.com/ One of the many ingredients in the dumplings is asafetida, also spelled asafoetida. Wikipedia says the English name is derived from asa, a latinised form of Persian azā, meaning 'mastic', and Latin foetidus meaning 'smelling, fetid', which refers to its strong sulfurous odour. It's the dried latex (gum oleoresin) exuded from the rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula, perennial herbs the giant fennel genus of the carrot, celery, and parsley family, Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae). Umbellifers are aromatic plants with umbrella-shaped flowers and the family includes anise, caraway, celery, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, parsley, carrots, parsnips and a bunch of other good things. There are also some things in the family you don't want to eat like giant hogweed and poison hemlock. Asafetida, the only thing I knowingly ate with the word "fetid" in the name of it, has a pungent smell of rotting onions or sulfur. The dumplings were frozen and still reeked strongly of onions. Stronger than onions themselves smell, but the smell dissipates with cooking. The flavor on its own is extremely unpleasant, like concentrated rotten garlic, and when cooked it adds an onion-like flavor. It's used in a lot of Indian cuisine.
This fetid-ass seasoning has some interesting nicknames. In English and many other Germanic languages it's called Devil's dung or a less polite equivalent. It has other similar nicknames in other languages, and what it all boils down to is, this stuff smells and tastes like Satan's A**hole. If you're still wondering why anyone would want to cook with this crap, it seems to be mainly religion these days. Many of the various and sundry religions of India eat it. Jains, Brahmins and Sikhs all eat it. Hare Krishnas aren't allowed to consume onions or garlic so they eat it. This stuff has a long history and even Alexander The Great carried around his "stinkfinger" to season his food. But these dumplings have onions as the second ingredient in the filling and have scallions in them too, so they could have done without the flavor straight out of Old Scratch's backside. Despite all that, they weren't bad if you like onions like I do, and I might get more sometime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida