Actress Isha Koppikar is an absolute foodie, but a conservative one. "My biggest adventure in a restaurant is limited to eating a duck and rabbit meat. I have not eaten a crocodile," she laughs. A true-blue Mangalorean, Isha loves her spicy tangy fish curry with rice. The actress does believe in 'eating healthy' but let's go when she wants to. Excerpts from an interview...


Pics/Shadab Khan. Location Courtesy: The Central Kitchen, Sion 

Mangalorean flavours
I love the full-bodied taste of Mangalorean food. I grew up on Konkani fish curry and rice. One of my favourite dishes is Batata Saung. It is a spicy potato curry that gets its red colour from Byadagi chillies. I remember craving for it when I was away from home for my school camps. I had gone to Nepal for a school picnic when I was in the sixth standard. My desire to eat Batata Saung reached such a point that I phoned my grandmother from the hotel's reception, saying, "Annamma, I want to eat Batata Saung once I come home."