'I have never paid at expensive restaurants' - Shakktii Aroraa

One particular dish you can't resist?
I'm not a hardcore non-vegetarian yet I can't resist Chicken Reshmi Kabab. I just love it!

Do you survive to eat or eat to survive?
Earlier I used to eat to survive, but now I don't know what has happened to me, but things have changed and now it's the other way round (smiles).

What kind of food do you prefer eating?
I prefer eating Healthy Food.

Do you cook?
Yes I cook amazing Maggie. I make it without using the spices supplied with the pack. Instead I use a mixture of different spices with milk in it. Believe me it tastes amazing. People find it hard to guess that it is the output of regular Maggie. My friends die to eat the Maggie cooked by me.

How good are you at recognizing spices?
I'm very bad at it (smiles). I can recognize only a handful of them, the ones I use in making Maggie.

Which is your Favorite fruit?
Leeches and Water melon.

Most expensive restaurant you have been to?
Actually I have been to many expensive restaurants, but haven't paid the bills there (laughs).

Any embarrassing situation you have faced while eating food?
Yes, actually I and my mom, dad had gone to see a guy for my sister and there the host offered me a dish which I could not resist. As soon as it was placed, I just started gulping it down and then finally dirtied my white shirt. And after this, when I faced my mother's angry look, it was like the end of my hunger.

How specific are you about table manners?
Not very much. Even if I'm at a posh restaurant I believe in maintaining basic etiquette.

What do you do for midnight cravings?
My dad loves chocolates and ice-creams, so we always have them at our place. When I feel hungry at midnight I pounce on them. But then I do equal magnitude of cardio the next day.

Strangest dish you have ever tried?
Once I had a lobster and then I realized I'm allergic to it. After consuming it my lower lip just swelled up and I couldn't talk.

Favorite sweet dish.
I love Indian Kulfi made of pure milk and rabdi.

Favorite drink.
In hard drinks it would be wine, which I have once in six months. My all time favorite daily is Irish cream. It's a coffee mixed with rum; it tastes like heaven.
 
Do you get advised by people to follow a proper diet?
Yes my gym trainer keeps a regular check on it and then my mother is a doctor. She doesn't even allow me to add a tea spoon of sugar in tea. So my diet is that rigid (smiles).

Reporter and Author: Pooja Shenoy