KATHMANDU, JANUARY 9
Five-star hotels in the country should have a menu offering Nepali food for the promotion of Nepali cuisine globally, said senior chefs from Nepal.
During a reception organised in honour of the newly elected working committee of the Chefs Association of Nepal here last evening, they wanted fivestar hotels to promote Nepali food.
The Association's newly elected President Shyam Bahadur Lama said Nepali chefs were responsible for promoting Nepali food and the support of hotel entrepreneurs was necessary for this.
The Association, established in 1996, had registered the Chefs Association Foundation in 2015 and offered various trainings in culinary arts through the foundation. The foundation's executive director Resham Lama said over 500 people have received training.
The Association has been providing short-term training on food safety and workplace safety to students of Hotel Management.
The Association's former president Pushpa Thapa Magar, Jeet Bahadur Lama, Shree Krishna Lama, Ratna Bahadur Thapa, Govinda Narasingha KC, Shree Ram Adhikari and Khadga Bikram Lama, among other speakers, said the Association should work towards transferring skills and creating environment for using only Nepali chefs in Nepali hotels.
As per the statistics shared by the Association, there are currently 60 per cent Nepali and 40 per cent foreign chefs in hotels of Nepal.
Meanwhile, the Association's recently concluded ninth convention unanimously elected a 17-member working committee with Shyam Bahadur Lama as president for a two-year term.
Thakur Prasad Poudel is the first vice-president, Shivahari Ghimire the vice-president, Shree Krishna Gajurel the general-secretary, Hemraj Poudel the secretary and Ram Krishna Thapa the treasurer of the working committee.
A version of this article appears in the print on January 10, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
