Mumbai-based Gwen D'mello like to make French toast, cheese-stuffed pockets, pancakes or chili potatoes. She likes to cook things that are easy and quick to make and are also tasty and sumptuous. D'mello even goes a step further to garnish her all-time favourite French toast with some chocolate syrup.

The few times that Nafisa D'mello does cook for herself, she mostly relies on effortless cooking. Whenever she enters the kitchen to cook something, it is mostly basic food that does not require too many ingredients or a lot of time. So, when she does, it is mostly dishes like fried potatoes or omelettes.

Even Andrea Saldanha, another Mumbaikar would choose home-cooked food over fast food, even though she likes to eat both. While the 23-year-old rarely enters the kitchen, when she does, it is usually to make her favourite snacks that often extend to Continental dishes. According to her mother some of her favourite dishes include Mysore dosa, French fries, cheese sandwich, fried fish, and chicken fry. She even makes a combination of Mysore dosa and cheese sandwich, which her daughter likes.

In Hanshika Shetty’s home as her mother Mamta Shetty makes Afghani Chicken, which she believes is their favourite, along with seafood. Even as her 53-year-old mother Mamta makes rasam and rice, along with dishes from fish and chicken often, her daughter has a completely different take on food. Shetty says she doesn’t enter the kitchen that often but when she does, pasta is her go-to dish because it is the only dish Shetty knows to make perfectly. Diya Maniar, on the other hand, loves cooking and makes parathas, Amritsari kulchas, and even Chinese dishes very often but her speciality lies in making family-approved khaman dhokla. Maniar also enjoys the classic Mumbai sandwich, which is her go-to snack on any given day. 

Gen-Z in Mumbai believe a common misconception about them and food is that people assume that they solely gravitate towards quick and convenient options. They also believe that people think they only like junk food and follow an unhealthy diet but that is not true.