CHEF OWNERS OF MAKAKE AND RAMEN MOMO KUNSANG TSERING DHONDUPSSON AND ERNA PÉTURSDÓTTIR, AND HRAFNKELL SIGRÍÐARSON AND EGGERT GÍSLASON ÞORSTEINSSON FROM MAT BAR, JOINED FORCES FOR WHAT WAS MEANT TO BE AN EXPERIMENTAL POP-UP THAT HAS SINCE BECOME REYKJAVIK’S FIRST DUMPLING HOUSE.

“IF WE DID SOMETHING WELL AT SCHOOL WHEN I WAS A KID, WE WOULD GET A DUMPLING,” KUNSANG, PAUSES AS HE REMINISCES. “SO DUMPLINGS FOR ME, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN MY LIFE.”