Food is the best way to break the ice among strangers. We all love food be it the chaats, fast food or the seven-course dinner at a high-end restaurant. Food is the best topic on any given day. We can go on and on about the pros and cons of good food. Not only fans even their favourite Bollywood stars love food, they too are known to have some favourite dishes that they love to binge on during their cheat meal days. Well, who can resist those sizzling hot momos or binge on that paani puri? But do you know a secret, there are some food items named after Bollywood celebrities
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Yes, you read that right. there are some fans who go the extra mile for their favourite Bollywood stars. If some name their restaurant after their idol, some name dishes after their favourite star. So if we have a restaurant named Bhaijaanz after Salman Khan, then we have Chicken Sanju Baba named after Sanjay Dutt.
7 Bollywood celebrities who have food items named after them
Sanjay Dutt:
Dutt loves good food and is a mean cook himself. Once, Sanjay Dutt visited a popular restaurant on Mohammed Ali Road. He suggested a recipe to the chef that soon became famous. Chicken Sanju Baba is a dish curated by Sanjay Dutt and is quite popular. Fans love to visit this restaurant to gorge on Sanju Baba’s recipe.
Priyanka Chopra:
The actress who is winning hearts across the globe has an exotic milkshake named after her. Priyanka’s song Exotic went on to be a winner. A milkshake bar in West Hollywood, Millions of Milkshakes has named a shake after Priyanka’s song. The milkshake is made with banana, almonds, and topped with caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream, with a hint of ginseng.
Deepika Padukone
The Piku star loves to gorge on South Indian food. As a tribute to the actress a restaurant in Austin, Texas, USA has named a dosa after her.
Ranbir Kapoor
The actor was in Chandigarh to promote his film Raajneeti. Ranbir visited a dhabha where he was served a special chicken dish by the owner. Later the Dhabha owner named the chicken dish after Ranbir Kapoor.
Akshay Kumar
During the shoot of ‘Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobara’, some of the movie’s scenes were shot in a resort in Oman. The resort made a special cocktail and named ‘Shoiabtini’ after Akshay Kumar’s character in the movie.
Kareena Kapoor
The actress is a self-confessed foodie and loves Chinese. Bebo also loves to gorge on pizzas on her cheat days. After Kareena acquired a size zero figure that soon became a rage, an Italian pizza joint in Delhi came up with a Kareena size zero pizza as a tribute to her. The thin crust pizza is topped with diced chicken, red chillies, baby corn, onions, and low-fat cheese.
Huma Qureshi
Qureshi a frequent visitor to Italy always ordered a specific made to order dish. She gave special instructions to the chef to make one of its kind veggie dishes. The restaurant, thus, decided to name the dish after her. Named ‘Huma Qureshi’s Favourite’, the dish is made with assorted vegetables all cooked in minimal oil.
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