Author Archives: Dolma Lama

Online order for delivery

During this research, I have learned a couple of new things about food in Kathmandu. One of them is this website (http://www.foodmandu.com/Restaurants.aspx). I thought this website was quite innovative. Basically, it has a list of restaurants in Kathmandu and you … Continue reading

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KFC

one of the article that I’m using for my paper from a local newspaper called Republica. http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=46677

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Bajeko Sekuwa- local fast food chain

I came across this fast food chain called Bajeko Sekuwa which literally means Grandfather’s Sekuwa (a dish that consist of roasted meat with traditional Nepali spices and its prepared in a Nepali country style on a open fire). The closest … Continue reading

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Monsanto in Nepal

Here is a article that talks about USAID trying to introduce Monsanto maize seeds in Nepal. more to come on how it relates to my research… http://nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=18674

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“Farmer’s markets” to “supermarkets”

  As I talked about in my presentation about change in food system in Nepal especially in Kathmandu, there is a slow shift in consumption from “farmer’s market” style grocery shopping to “supermarket” grocery shopping. The impact of this is … Continue reading

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Change in food system and nutrition

Here is a article that I found on how globalization through adoption of “western” fast food industry impacts developing countries. When observing just on the  surface it appears simply as “copy” or emulation of western food and not harming the … Continue reading

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Yak Donalds, Nepal- (Research blog)

Last summer, I travelled to a remote touriste area in Nepal called Mustang. The region is starting to become a major tourist destination for Nepalese as well foreigners. As a result, they are changing their traditional ways to cater to … Continue reading

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KFC and appropriation of western “fast food culture”in Nepal – Case study

Couple of years ago, when I was back home one summer, KFC and Pizza Hut had just opened and it was the newest buzz in the capital, Kathmandu. There were pictures in the local newspaper of people lined up out … Continue reading

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partial cultural experience

For our discussion, we decided to focus on Bhabha’s argument on the “partial culture” and the varieties of subcultures within a supposed one cultural group. Tishara and I agreed with Homi Bhabha’s argument that a “partial culture” that we experience … Continue reading

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Cafe discussion

In our café discussion, we talked about Judith Butler’s argument on heterosexuality as the “origin”, gender performance and whether coming out is actually liberating. I found Butler’s discussion on heterosexuality setting itself as the “origin and the ground of all … Continue reading

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