From the Energy Chef of India to the Dancing Chef of India
Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi is a celebrity chef from India. Also known as “Energy Chef of India” is now a “Dancing Chef Of India”. Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi is one of the participants in the Jhalak Dhiklaja Season 9 Colors TV.
When we asked him how did he get into the Jhalak, He smiled and said during his childhood days he was a quiet and shy, his dad used to push him in the crowd to dance in family functions, but as he grew his liking for dance increased that’s why you can always see him dancing and sing on his show with popular lines call “Namak Shamak Namak Shamak Dal Dete Hain”
Personal Life
Hailing from North India, which, like the rest of India is rich in culture and cuisine, Chef Harpal is a music lover and is fluent in English and five Indian languages, namely Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Oriya and Telugu. He graduated from the catering school at Bhubaneshwar, a capital of Orissa. He spent his initial years in learning different international cuisines but later realized that his interest lay in unearthing the authentic regional Indian food.
Personal Achievements
The Man who has not only redefined cookery shows with his own unique style of humour and cooking in a real Punjabi desi style but also has been the Global Influencer which is why he was appealed twice by the Global Influencer Summit in the year of 2018 & 2019 as a Influencer Chef and also bagged the most recognized and admired face on Telelvision as a Chef of the year 2012 honoured by Golden Star Awards.
Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi, known as the most entertaining & energetic Chef, is a sought after name within the Indian Food industry. With a background of North India, and his reputation of crafting Fusion of Indian food with International Cuisine, Chef Harpal has added his desi tadka in the Fun & Young brand Dhadoom, Twist of Tadka, Broaster Chicken, The Treasury, BB Jaan and ready for the new Brand coming up soon in the market named BB Chick.
He was also appealed by the World Residence Sea to sample the array of Bollywood-esque gourment dishes from all the regions of India for the 160 guests across the world residing at the cruise ship.
He has crafted the menu for the restaurant Jashan (Hong Kong) and launched the biggest Lounge Bar De Nuevo in Jalandhar, Punjab.
Awards
Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi was awarded as Best Chef of the Year in the year 2016 by National Indo-Australian Cultural by the Victorian Council Australia in October 2014, for promoting Indian food and culture in Australia.
He also has achieved Iconic Achievers Award 2018.
Recent Achievements like Food Fusion Leadership Awards 2018 & Annapoorna Food Retail Award 2018.
Foodfood the pioneer in Food Television network in India awarded Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi as the most recognized face of the year in 2017.
Incidentally he is also the first Chef to have work tried his hands in a bollywood movie called BANKCHOR which was released in the mid of 2017.
Chef Harpal is amongst the top 5 food youtubers honoured by Google in the year 2014. Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi was further recognized as the top 100 channels on food on youtube.
Business Ventures
TV shows
When you eventually make a name for yourself, you start looking at how this profession can be turned into a viable business model and work around opportunities that keep coming to you. And that is why Chef Harpal decided to look beyond Television and venture into areas that made him try his skills into different things. “He remained focused on TV in the first few years. After tasting success, people started approaching him with the idea of starting a different business model and with it started his dream project- Turban Tadka Hospitality.”
Turban Tadka is a company that works around Television, digital platform, among many other things.
The company does 3 shows and all 3 of them have a unique proposition to offer to viewers; so apart from Turban Tadka, there is a travelogue – Desh Da Swaad and a program for Punjabi Television Network, PTC – Punjab De Super Chef. Barring Turban Tadka, both the shows are seasoning Based
Restaurants
There are a series of business verticals that the company is trying to focus and grow at present – with restaurants being one of the verticals. “He has 4 restaurants – one is Twist of Tadka in Bangalore housed at Hotel Stylotel, Twist of Tadka in Amritsar and Twist of Tadka in Bhopal. (link)
He has an up market restaurant BB Jaan in Jalandhar At Cabana Resort, Jalandhar. Bibi Jaan is usually the name given to the Head Lady of the house during the times of Nawab. Incidentally He has been trained under Begum Mumtaaz Khan of the Jagirdar family of Hyderabad.(link)
The Treasury at Cabana Resort, Jalandhar which is and all dining restaurant which serve Cusines around the world.(link)
Dhadoomhttp://dhadoom.com/ A young and fun brand by Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi now have the presence with the 21 operational outlets all over India and many more to come.
He is also working on restaurant around QSR format also “shares Chef Sokhi. Turban Tadka Hospitality is also working with lot of food companies, trying to work out recipes for them. For instance, he has worked with Chings and has done a lot of their BTL activities. “He helps to prepare new recipes and also Drive that brand through promotions and commercials.
The MD of the company helped him to get Associated with the brand called Sabi Foods in Australia and together they formed a brand called Sabrini that deals with a line of frozen food products. Today Sabrini is a popular brand both in Australia and New Zealand.(link od Sabrini food products )
Chef Sokhi has also launched his own non-stick cookware brand– Happy Chef. The brand has both the base line and the premium line of cookware.(link)
He says…….
“I am happy with whatever I have achieved in life and I am thankful to god for giving me all the power to prove myself as the worthy one”
“Namak Shamak Namak Shamak Dal Dete Hain Namak Shamak” – Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi.