Cooking it up

With adjacent cooking stations inside the kitchen at a popular five-star in Worli, Seefah Ketchaiyo and Karan Bane's first interaction in 2011, ironically, wasn't great. "He's really naughty, and sometimes, he would come by and fool around at my station. So, one day, I got irritated and said, 'Hey, why are you in my space?' I think after that, he thought I was egotistical, but he was kind and helpful and so, I got to like him," Ketchaiyo recalls. In the weeks that followed, the Thai chef tried flirting with Bane.