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ISSUE 285 RS 40 17 August 2016 1 efb« 2073 WHERE GLUTTONY IS NOTThere is no such thing as A‘too much SIfood’ when Nit comes to NATHM’s annual Ananta Food Fiesta. 3 Kickstart//Out and About Newsfeed k ckstart or vegetables with it, with some extra Everything has to be in order, starting cheese or sauce. A lot of modifications from team management to allocation of have taken place in terms of garnishing people, delegation of authority to telling ! or appearance. Lots of changes have people what to do. The whole team has arrived but the basic ingredients and to be involved, and at the end of the day, facts about food are still the same. teamwork is the most important thing. What according to you is fine dining? What kinds of dishes are served for Fine Dining is not only about eating fine dining? or drinking, but it is about having a First of all, we have to focus on the wholesome experience. This is the menu selection and think about what experience that you won’t get in other kind of cuisines are to be served, what cafes or restaurants. The feel of wine kind of menu the guests want etc. Based and dine is very difficult to receive in on guest feedback and their preferences, other places, so fine dining for me is we prepare our menus. We cannot about having the perfect concept. change the dish drastically but make small changes based on guest requests. Tell us about your fine dining In Soaltee, we have mixed menus from experience. all over the world, so there are a lot Fine Dining for me or what we do here of multi cuisines. It is not our choice at Soaltee is that we follow exactly the of what we want to provide them, but authentic recipes and based on those their choice of what they want to eat. dishes, we get the exact ingredients. People might want Mexican food. It There are a lot of parameters that we may take a few minutes to prepare, but have to consider. Lots of experience is we will definitely get it to them on their needed as well as plenty of knowledge table. Food is changing every day and it about food and understanding about won’t remain constant, so only the base different cuisines. It is important to has to be formed. We are doing lots of know how to manage food and be promotions and festivals in our hotel so involved with purchasing, handling the we also take feedbacks for guests based ingredients, temperature or storage. on what they like. Know Fine Dining Yuvraj Pokharel is the expert in fine dining. His passion for food led us to him, where we found out more about what the experience entails. Fr!day asked him a few questions so our readers can know more about Hotel Soaltee’s celebrity chef. How did your passion for cooking never thought that I would become a start? head chef in 2 years. Food is the elementary component of life. If you look at the way food What do you have to say about the industry is growing today and see day-to- day changing ideas in the people getting involved, even you food industry? would want to be part of it. Nowadays, I have never worked in service sector a lot of cooking channels or for a long time but only in production information about food and cooking sector. Production is so huge that is present but earlier, knowledge about every day you are learning something different kinds of food was limited. and that is never ending. It has been There was no media highlighting food. almost 22 years since I first started When I was in India working part and everyday there are developments time at a hotel, I decided to follow and innovations in the food industry my passion for food and made up my whether it is styling, décor or mind to turn cooking into a living. I presentation. 15-20 years ago, there wanted to cook as well as enjoy the were very less cuisines and everything food. But I never thought I would be was very specific with narrow ideas. a chef, the dream was very far away. For example, Italian food only I thought that the people around me offered pizza or pasta and that was it. started from the basics as well, so I Nowadays, fusions have taken place felt like if I worked hard, slowly and inside the food industry. If you order gradually I could achieve it. But I pasta, you might get some side dishes Kickstart//Out and About 6 7 Kickstart//Top 5 Events PROMOTIONAL PARTY OF CHAPALI HEIGHT II Time: 6pm onwards T OP EVENTS OUT ABOUT Date: 5th August 2016 & Venue: Faces Lounge, Thamel Contact: Prajwol 9808917732; Rheena 9808023403 5 Hall of Fame is a promotional party for the upcoming movie Chapali Height II. It is organized by Yolo Entertainment. The main attractions of the party consist of the crew members of the OUTDOORS movie and many other celebrities from the movie field. It also features 3D screen around the ANANTA NATHM venue, live projection and 360 degree lighting coverage. FOOD Fiesta 2016 ONE WORLD THeatre’S CROSSMANDU NatioNAL Time: 10.00 am onwards INTERNatioNAL PRODUCTION CHAMPIONSHIP 2016 Date: 13th August 2016, Saturday Date: 6th August 2016 Venue: NATHM Academy, Rabi Bhawan, Kathmandu OF ARJUNA’S DILEMMA Entry Fee: Rs. 150 Venue: Tinkune, Kathmandu Date: 2 September, 2016 Contact: Santosh Neupane 9841579943 Venue: Patan Museum, Lalitpur NATHM Food Fiesta is a food festival hosted yearly by the Crossmandu National Championship 2016 is organized by Nepal students of NATHM. The festival offers varieties of food stalls, Arjuna’s Dilemma is a 70 minute contemporary fusion opera by the American Motorcycle Federation(NMF) with the purpose of developing motorsports composer Douglas Cuomo, which had premiered in New York in the 2008 in Nepal. It is a training based championship. The riders will be given games as well as education stalls. The event is especially BAM Next Wave Festival. Organized by One World Theatre, the music drama basic technical training and guidance. They will be supervised by trained for all the food and music fanatics. This year COBWEB, is based on text from the ancient Indian epic, the Bhagavad Gita, and marshals. 30 off-road dirt bike riders will showcase their skills on the poetry of Kabir. It will be staged among the ruins of the Patan Durbar 550m off-road tracks. The event provides cash prizes and a platform to X-MANTRA and Sabin Rai & the Band are going to be Square in September. It involves many reputed opera singers/composer/ participate on international level. music director/stage designer and others from USA, India and other European performing along with other local bands. countries, as well as local Nepali artistes. PRODIGY MTB RACE 2016 Time: 7.30 onwards Date: 13th August 2016 Venue: Chobhar, Kathmandu Contact: Shyam 9803661496; Anuj 9801123621 ABIRAL Yatra 2073 Prodigy MTB Race is a mountain bike race designed for school level cyclists and is organized by Gnarly. It is exciting and fun while being safe YadaV KHAREL at the same time. The races are divided into 4 categories. Category A consists of grades 9 and 10 participants, B consists of grades 7 and 8, C Date: 5th and 6th August, 2016 legends of music through various consists of grades 5 and 6 while category D includes participants of grade Venue: Army Officers’ Club, 4 and below. There are two circuits, 2K for category A and B and a 0.5K Bhadrakali musical performances. This for the other two categories. All the participants will be given medals and event is dedicatedto Mr. Yadav certificates. The winners in each category will get exciting gift hampers. Ticket Available at: The Hidden Treasure (Kupondole, Lalitpur), Kharel who has contributed a Nanglo (Kamaladi, Kathmandu) and lot to the music industry with Nanglo Express (New Road, his lyrics. Yogesh Baidhya, Uday Kathmandu) Contact: 5538878 Sotang, Kunti Moktan, Lochan Bhattarai, Devika Bandana, MUSIC & PARTIES Abiral Yatra is the first musical Swaroop Raj Acharya, Satya Raj event organized by The Hidden Acharya and Milan Amatya will Treasure. The purpose of this be singing the songs written by ROYAL ENFIELD HeritaGE RIDE 2016 event is to honor the living Time: 7:00 AM Onwards HIT THE TRAILS Yadav Kharel. Date: 6 August 2016, Saturday Time: 7.00 am onwards Gathering Point: Royal Enfield Showroom, Naksal, Kathmandu Destination: Bhaktapur Durbar Square Date: 13th August 2016 Starting point: Cycle Cafe, Jamal, Kathmandu Destination: Shivapuri National Park, Sundarijal, Kathmandu Ticket price: For Nepalese: Rs.2000 (without bike), Rs. 500 (for bike), GET READY FOR THE For Foreigners: Rs. 3000 (without bike), Rs. 500 (for bike) Contact: 9851222031, 4020025 RED PARADE! Date: 11th to 15th August Venue: World Trade Center, Tripureshwor (Free entrance) Time: 10:00 A.M -7:00 P.M Royal Enfield Heritage Ride is organized by Royal Enfield Nepal. This ride event is organized to promote heritage sights of Nepal as well as the ride tourism of Here is a chance to witness the festival a little early this Nepal. All Royal Enfield riders can Join this ride. time: join the Teej celebration organized by Women’s Ride Route : Naksal – Kingsway (Durbarmarg) – Ghantaghar – Sahidgate – New Creation Center in association with Dabur Special Hair Oil Road – Rantapark – Sahidgate – Tripureshwor – Kupondol – Pulchowk – Jawalakhel on the ground floor of World Trade Center starting right – Pulchowk – Mangalbazar – Gwarko – Balkumari – Koteshwor – Thimi – Sallaghari from 11th to 15th August.