The Hotel and Tourism Entrepreneurs of Mahottari have organized the Street Food Festival 2080 with the aim of increasing awareness and interest in local businesses and attractions. The festival, inaugurated by Bardibas Municipality Mayor Pralhad Kumar Kshetri, is being held five hundred meters away from the junction of the East-West Highway and the BP Highway. Various local delicacies from different regions are being showcased at the festival, organized by the Hotel and Tourism Entrepreneurs’ Association of Mahottari.
The festival, which began from the confluence of the East-West Highway and the bustling BP Highway (Bardibas-Sindhuli-Banepa road), aims to promote Bardibas’s extensive introduction, local culinary delights, and indigenous handicrafts to enhance interest and support from visitors. “Our main focus is to promote local potentialities to the general public, and the festival initiated at Bardibas, strategically located for tourism, aims to provide a taste of our original flavors and services for accommodation and dining,” says the association’s president Gunj Bahadur Karki. “We believe that our efforts to explore the tourism potentialities within Bardibas, including its proximity to Chure hills, will help in enhancing interest and support,” he adds.
The festival showcases local delicacies such as Sidra, Ghongi, dried fish, Sisnu, Timbur, Gundruk, Tama, Geda Gudi, and various sweets along with stalls of other popular dishes from different regions and a set of Newari cuisines. Students from Nirmal Lama Multiple Campus, Bardibas-11 Khayarmara, specializing in Hotel Management and Food and Dairy subjects, and students from Nathm Bardibas (Nepal Tourism and Hotel Management Institute, Bardibas) and Secondary School Bardibas-8 Hatilet, manage classes, providing visitors with new tastes during the festival. The festival has 50 stalls, each offering different delicacies, providing visitors with the opportunity to taste various dishes and experience Bardibas’s identity, flavor, and warm welcome, says the association’s secretary Narayan Ghimire.
For the past few days, Bardibas Industrial and Commerce Association, Hotel and Tourism Entrepreneurs’ Association Mahottari, and Bardibas Journalists Network Mahottari have been organizing rallies to introduce Bardibas’ tourism destinations. The festival also aims to support these walks. With an expected cost of around Rs. 1.5 million, the festival, which has begun, targets 50,000 attendees over the three days and invites everyone to come and enjoy the festival in Bardibas publicly.
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