Cricket great Sachin Tendulkar is a foodie but his first experience with Chinese cuisine ended in disappointment and he had to return home thirsty and hungry. Tendulkar was a great lover of his mother's cooking and it was not till he was nine-years-old that he first tried Chinese food. In the early 1980s, Chinese cuisine was becoming popular in Mumbai and having heard so much about it, his colony friends made a plan to go out for a meal together. "We each contributed 10 rupees ' which was a lot of money for me at that time ' and I was excited about trying something new," says Tendulkar.

Sachin Tendulkar