From poultry farms to Delhi's first Oriental Restro-Lounge — this is the founder story of Saurabh Khanijo, Founder & Managing Director of Kylin Experience. At just 12 years old, Saurabh had to help steady his family's poultry and animal-feed business, Welgrow Feeds, after his father's sudden death — an experience worlds away from the fine-dining empire he would eventually build. In this episode, he traces that unlikely path: from industrial feed manufacturing to founding Kylin in 2005, Delhi's very first Oriental Restro-Lounge, now grown into a multi-brand hospitality group — Kylin Premier, Kylin SkyBar, Sartoria — under the publicly listed Rollatainer Ltd. He also opens up about The Ivy, a venture that rose fast and folded faster, and why knowing when to walk away matters as much as knowing when to start a new one. One of the episode's sharpest moments: Saurabh's take on "Indian Chinese" food. Having eaten across 15 cities in China, he argues it bears little resemblance to the real thing — a claim that lines up with culinary history, since Indian Chinese cuisine actually originated with Kolkata's Hakka Chinese community, not China itself. India's food-service industry is now worth roughly $85 billion and still growing fast, and Saurabh's journey — from feed mills to a listed hospitality group — is a masterclass in spotting a category gap and building a brand to fill it before anyone else does. Watch till the end for his honest take on failure, family, and why the hardest business lessons rarely come from business school.