Being a cricket fanatic we Indians know so much about
Cricket ,players, Stats and all stuffs related with Cricket. We even watch Test
Cricket ball by ball when we are free . We follow all cricketers on twitter, retweet / favorite their tweets, but I am sure many of us still don’t know
about this Gentleman called Gogo. He has no relationship with Cricket but with
Cricketers and that is “Relationship of food “.
Gogo Govardhan is Originally a Chennian ,walked out of
Engineering college to join Hotel Management , moved to Japan and now based in
Australia and runs a restaurant called Madras Curry House. He is one of the
most favorite cook of Sachin Tendulkar and many Indian players, not only Indian
team even Australian team comes to his restaurant for Eat out quite often. In
last 10 years He has served almost all teams that have visited Australia for
Cricket. Sometimes he use to travel with Indian team in their tour matches to
different cities. Govardhan famously air-freighted 200 of his Indian spiced chops to Mumbai in 2004 for a private party for Sachin Tendulkar.
During a highly controversial Indian tour to Australia when
the Monkey Gate incident happened, both teams unknowingly landed up in Gogo’s restaurant,
then Justin Langer was the person to help Gogo in how to manage the situation and
temporary partition was created in restaurant to make separate space for both
teams. Even after the so much hype of issue both team were having same liking, at
least for Food.
He has got memorable gifts from so many cricketers who have visited Madras Curry House in last more than 10 years. Gogo has been personally rewarded by almost all world Class cricketers
who had food there. Gloves from Sachin Tendulkar, Match ball from Anil Kumble when
he took 600th Wicket, last match captain
cap from Wasim Akram, Signature book from Steve Waugh saying "Thanks Gogo for the best lamb shanks.".
Ending on Foodie thought as George Bernard Shaw has said "There is no sincerer love than the love of food".