Melroy Melvin Creado - The International Food Explorer is crazy about Mumbai Street Foods.
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Name –
Melroy Melvin Creado
Instagram handle - @melroycreadophotography
What is your favourite food memory from childhood?
Eating
Mango pulp as a dessert almost every day during the mango season.
What’s your favourite comfort food?
Maggie will
be always top the list since it's easy to cook as well as you can have a
variety of different styles that you can experiment it with.
3 reasons why you consider yourself a Foodie?
Fortunately,
my job on cruise line has offered me the magnanimous opportunity to explore
food cuisines across the globe. Apart from this, I am constantly in search for comfort food.
Food is
the best excuse to hang out with friends and family.
No compromises
made with the food or the carvings. Because you are what you eat.
What’s the strangest dish you’ve ever tried?
Real
Chinese food. It's completely different from the Indian Chinese that I love.
If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Chicken
fried rice from the popular street restaurants because the real taste of Indian
Chinese is on streets.
What kind of oil do you use most of all?
Sunflower
oil is mostly used at home.
Which is the most over-rated food cuisine?
Japanese.
As lately I see too many people posting craving sushi.
Any quirky food dishes combinations you have invented or love feasting on?
I haven't
invented it but I love feasting on chapati and sugar. It’s universal and can be
had for breakfast or even at lunch.
Your take on:
Keto diets
– Highly recommend for people who want to make changes in their body in terms
of muscle building or losing weight.
Intermittent
fasting – Not everyone's cup of tea but if you're in process of a weight loss
programs it will surely help.
Fusion
food cuisine – Kills the uniqueness of the single dish.
Which superfoods have impressed you the most?
Bananas
and eggs. It's a basic necessity for me as it's everything that keeps my body
going fully enriched.
What are your favourites?
Indian
Chinese and Mughlai.
Indian
street food – Mostly chats from the streets. The most favourite being Pani
Puri. The bigger the puri, the more the pani, ha ha.
Indian
dessert – Kaju katri is the only Indian desert I eat and love it.
Hidden gem
restaurant of your city (and why) – I wouldn't say there's one in specific as
I've travelled to many countries. I never ever have got the taste of Mumbai
anywhere in the world no matter which restaurant I have ventured into. Mumbai
food has a totally unique essence.
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Over-rated
Indian restaurant in your city (and why) – Borivali biryani center, They did
have a good variety of options with good taste but in a matter of years people
dine or eat there just for the name of the place.
The
restaurant you keep going back to - BOSTON in Jogeshwari. It's like our
family restaurant as we dine there on various occasions (amazing Mughlai food
and great atmosphere)
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How do you detox your body after an overdose of eating out?
Eating
more of fruit instead of full meals the next day. Fresh Juices (avoid tetra
packs) are helpful and something that cools down the body. A chilled lassi or
coconut water does wonders.
Any health foods you swear by?
Nothing in
particular. Food in moderation is healthy. But yes, chicken is something which
would be my top priority.