Ambika Gandotra is better known as Soniya of Main Kab Saans Banoongi fame where she plays the daughter-in-law of Vandana Pathak. As a Kashmiri it does surprise that she’s given up on non-veg. Apparently, the sight of slaughtered animals forced her to give up on non-veg food. But she’s still enjoying her food. To know how read on.

Is food the elixir of life? It’s not an elixir but definitely an integral part of my life

Are you a foodie? Even though I’m diet conscious I love eating my salads and veg curries

Are you a veg or non-veg? Post this Shivratri, I’ve turned into a vegetarian

Favourite cuisine: Indian

Favourite dish: Earlier mutton biryani. Now, I like my salads, rajma chawal

Favourite restaurant: Indigo, Peshawari, Mainland China, Urban Tadka

A must at my breakfast table… Milk in any form. Be it shakes of with Bournvita

Sugar or Sugarfree for my tea/coffee… I never use low calorie sugar as you never know it might have some side effect

Lunch generally consists of… Salads, sprouts, curd, chapatti or chawal, any sabzi

For high tea I have… glucose biscuits or rusk

Dinner generally consists of… salads or soup or merely a brown bread sandwich

Dessert delights… Choco mousse royale ice cream, walnut brownie

One thing I can't resist… any ice cream

My favourtie drink (non-alcoholic)… Peach ice tea

My favourite drink (alcoholic)… Bloody Mary cocktail, beer

For a date I… start with red wine, follow it up veg appetizers and then a light dinner

At parties I have… salads and desserts

Experiment with food? Not when I’m really hungry. Usually, I ask the waiter for his suggestion

Most unusual dish I've tasted… This was at Zodiac grill and I was a non-vegetarian then. It was a concoction of brinjal, fish, egg whites in tartar sauce

On the streets, I love to have… Paani puri but once in a blue moon

One place I would never eat again… Well, I won’t name any. If it’s not good food then the company makes up for it.

Do you cook? Yes, at times

Your favourite recipe… I can make good bread/cheese rolls . Among the dishes, I can cook soya. I can’t tell the recipe as it comes to me spontaneously at the time of cooking. It’s basically involved adding few things here and there. Right now, I’m hungry so I better head to the kitchen.