Chef Deepanker Khosla is a man with passion in his voice. In the pre-dinner calm in Haoma, his restaurant and urban farm in the heart of Bangkok, Chef DK sat down to chat about his unique spin on Indian food, winning Sourcing category at the Food Made Good HK Awards and his journey since he opened Haoma almost four years ago, excitedly explaining how he raises fish under the garden or how he unearths centuries' old recipes from across his native India with equal delight.
He cites David Attenborough documentaries - “the only thing we were allowed to watch on a Sunday afternoon” - as planting the seed of environmental awareness in young Deepanker's mind. “His mesmerising voice has been telling us to look after the planet since we were kids,” he says, recalling memories of his childhood in Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India.