S15 Ep4: Karan Gokani the founder of Hoppers on his love of Sri Lanka, his passion for cooking and the best dish he's ever eaten

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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My guest today is the founder of Hoppers - Karan Gokani. Combining his passion for cooking with his love of the country of Sri Lanka he has built a restaurant empire celebrating the food of Sri Lanka and Southern India. I went to Sri Lanka last year for the first time and completely fell in love with the food. I’ve been to Hoppers many times so I kind of knew what to expect but honestly it’s just the most amazing country and the most delicious food so it was brilliant to hear from Karan about his love for it it too.

I know I told you that this was going to just be a little short season for the month of February but already we have come to the last episode of this mini season – it’s gone very quickly but fear not as we are already recording the next – so hopefully wont be too long to wait.

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0:00.0	This episode of Desert Island Dishes is brought to you in partnership with the independent family-run butcher, HG Walter.
0:07.4	Now, I'm particularly excited about this because for over 10 years, I have been a customer of HG.
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0:34.1	You barely have to do anything for it to taste delicious.
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0:43.2	about the provenance of the food you eat. And so having a butcher you can trust like HG
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1:12.4	telling you all about HG Walter today. They're based in London, but they deliver nationwide and you can
1:18.3	find out more at www.hgwater.com. Thank you very much. Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
1:31.2	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
1:37.2	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
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