Mehak Dhawan - Try to Make Your Niche, Try to Bring Something Different and Meaningful Through Your Content (Food Blogger From India)

I think not just a dish but whole experience makes a dish/restaurant worth it. It’s a mix of everything like how the dish is made, ingredients, details, plating, service hospitality everything counts.

1. Tell us about your background and journey.

I am born and brought up in Delhi and always loved exploring new places with family and friends. In college joined spoon du as a photo director and from there the love for clicking food pictures started and in July 2016 I started this page.

 

2. When did you decide that you wanted to create content on food and how did you start? 

1 July 2016, 3rd year college 

 

3.  Is food blogging your passion and if yes then how did you find it? 

Yes, it’s both my passion and profession.

 

4. Are there any courses or skills that one can learn to be a blogger? 

Not at all, I feel the journey itself is full of learning, each day is a new learning. But nowadays you have skilled courses and certificates which one can learn from.

 

5.  Which is your favourite, cuisine, and dish?

Love Asian and Indian. Sushi and butter chicken. 

 

6. Which restaurants/food joints would you recommend to food lovers?

Actually, there are lots it totally depends on the kind of food you want to have and mood. For all recommendations check my page hahaha.

 

7. What makes you appreciate a particular dish or a restaurant and talk about it on your blog?

I think not just a dish but whole experience makes a dish/restaurant worth it. It’s a mix of everything like how the dish is made, ingredients, details, plating, service hospitality everything counts.

 

8. Can food blogging become a regular career? 

Yes, it can.

 

9. Any advice that would like to give to the budding food bloggers? 

Try to Make your niche, try to bring something different and meaningful through your content. 

 

10. What challenges did you face during this journey and what did you learn from them? 

Lots, when I started this industry, was its early stages so a lot of things I learnt, how to work with brands, how to charge, how to make your production better, how to add meaning to content, how to get different content so yes learning never end, with each day and mistake it’s a new learning. 

Interviewed By - Shashank Sehgal