The chicken and the dumpling represent the moment Christian and Monica fell in love with each other. Christian fell in love while sharing a warm plate of momos (Nepalian dumplings) with Monica on a cold December night. Monica fell in love with Christian when they both laughed uncontrollably together at her chicken joke, not because it was funny, but because she had so much trouble telling it. As one of their first gifts to each other, Christian got Monica a dumpling squishmallow and Monica got Christian a chicken squishmallow. So, which do you think came first: the chicken or the dumpling?