Prabal Gurung: Momos!
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Prabal Gurung’s new memoir, Walk Like a Girl, tells his life story: how he went from being a bullied queer boy in Nepal who was always an outsider to starting his own label in New York City, designing gowns for First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey.
Prabal says he loves all kinds of food, but he is OBSESSED with momos, the steamed dumplings from his home country. He tells host Rachel Belle why they're so special to him and which A-list celebrity asked him to take her out for her first momo, when none of his friends or dates seemed interested.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:23.4 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into |
| 0:27.3 | the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:32.4 | Today on the program, Prabul Gurung, Nepali-American fashion designer, and author of the brand new memoir, Walk Like a Girl. |
| 0:41.3 | The book tells Proble's life story, how he went from being a bullied queer boy in Nepal who was |
| 0:46.6 | always an outsider to starting his own label in New York City and designing gowns for First Lady |
| 0:52.0 | Michelle Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Oprah Winfrey. |
| 0:56.0 | And on the food front, |
| 0:57.6 | Probble is obsessed with momos, |
| 1:00.9 | steamed Nepali dumplings. |
| 1:02.9 | I think the minute I meet someone who says, |
| 1:05.3 | let's go have a momo on a first date or second date, |
| 1:07.5 | I'll be like, okay, let's get married. |
| 1:09.7 | Proble tells me why momos are so special, why he pretends to hate Italian food, and |
| 1:15.6 | which A-List celebrity called him up and asked him to take her out for her very first |
| 1:20.3 | momo. |
| 1:21.2 | And from Ralph Lauren and Gucci restaurants to a $4,100 Louave Air Loom Tomato Leather Clutch, |
| 1:27.9 | food and fashion are colliding like never before. |
| 1:31.4 | I chat with a few experts about |
| 1:32.9 | why we are wearing tin sardines on our shirts |
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