Diwali Snacks shopping

As outlined in an earlier post, there is such an activity as "Snacks Shopping" during Diwali. This year there were a few additions to the list of shops from where we bought those snacks. Apart from Cafe Mysore at King's Circle and Sapre's at Goregaon, we bought stuff from Shri Krishna Sweets at Chembur and Anand Bhavan at King's Circle.

Each place is well-known for specific varieties of snacks and sweets and hence the need to buy different things from different shops. The fact that these shops are located in 3 different corners in Mumbai is not a deterrent for people like me (who travel by train anyways...now, try doing that by car in 3 hours on a working day).

The "Shri Krishna Sweets" thing cropped up quite late on the" radar" and needs some explanation. For those who do not know, "Shri Krishna Sweets" has sweets and snacks of the Tamil variety and is "headquartered" in Coimbatore. It has branches all over Tamilnadu and even in Bangalore. This shop in Chembur is a newly opened branch and is probably the only one in Mumbai. One of the specialty sweet items is what they call as "Mysurpa" (and what Maharashtrians call as "Mysore Pak"---no connection to Pakistan, as in "Indo Pak". The "Pak", I guess, stands for "sweet syrup").

So, it was that someone had gifted a box of Mysurpa from Shri Krishna Sweets much before Diwali and my mom took a liking to it. It was mon's desire to buy Mysurpa from there that drove me to Chembur this Diwali.
Armed with a list of items to buy (and the shops to buy them from), I reached Chembur and tried to locate the shop. It didn't take me long to find it since it is on N. G. Acharya Marg (the station road in Chembur East that runs parallel to the track). It is on the right hand side as we move from the station entrance towards Govandi.

I bought some 2.5 kg of Mysurpa and 2 kg of "Corn Flake" Halwa (yes, that's right...the salesperson said that they did not sell wheat halwa, only corn flakes).

Diwali is over and all the snacks and sweets have been exhausted too. Let's see if this shop figures in the list next Diwali.