Local Finds & Bargains


There are a few Turkish places near where I live, I bought Arko, and a few Turkish aftershaves there. No Yemen, Arab places though.

The Pink Tea and Karak Coffee looks great.

Next time you pass Ambala get yourself a packet or two of Rasmalai.

Uncle Donny says yes you can, so you can.

The pistachio milk in the container is some truly mind blowing shit.
 
the pink tea was nice but the karak coffeee is a bit mehhhhh

not sure wherew in london youre from mate but just pop into your local chai wala for some karak chai, youll love it mate

yea ambala is nice, tbh i normally get my indian sweets from a shop called mushtaqs on stratford road in brum

mushtaqs is a pakistani sweet shop where as im pretty sure ambala is indian, so the difference is that the pakistani sweets are generally larger in size and you get more for your moneys worth but imo the indian sweets have more variety and are smaller in size

mate i love rasmalai its really really nice and also gulab jamaan

if you ever go to ambala not sure if they sell it but try out kaju barfi its made of cashew nuts so so long as you dont have a nut allergy and you like cashews youll love it mate, me and my mrs love it, its one of our favourite indian sweet, btw its an indian sweet not pakistani

 
I make my own gulab jamun (very) occasionally. Delicious, but when you look at how much oil and sugar you use it makes you pause! In Slough there's a handful of sweet shops, one of them is brilliant, it's almost like an old fashioned English sweet shop, wooden shelves and loads of delicious looking stuff. I never know what to ask for though and I swear the guy probably wonders what I'm even doing in there in the first place. Mind you is easy to spend too much money.
 

I live in Tooting, there are a number of mithai/sweet shops, a few Pakistani, one Punjabi, a few Gujarati and a few South Indian ones up the road.

They all have certain things they do better than others, but I have my favourites, but that changes, but you can't beat the classics of Gulab Jamun and so on.

All the places have roughly the same price per kg, I think those price fix!

Your place in Brum looks the bomb.

Balushahi - Mushtaq's Sweets

www.mushtaqs.com

That looks out of this world.


The sugar and oil is the good stuff!

Seriously though kudos to you for making your own.

As for not knowing what to ask for, you can get a mixed box if you ask, many do. It's a good way to try a lot of things and sometimes the unexpected choices can have some positive surprises.
 
Yeah I like trying stuff out. It would be too easy to just get gulab jamun, jalabee, pista barfi and carrot halwa all the time. There's a Royal Sweet place underneath slough Tesco that have a nice, well lit selection. Plenty of choice for a non expert, but I reckon matey in the dark old fashioned shop near the old Horlicks factory has some eclectic gems hidden away.
 
I love gajar (carrot) halwa, absolutely amazing stuff
 

Some excellent choices my friend!

They are classics for a reason.

I think you are underselling yourself! If you can make Gulab Jamun's I think you are pretty well versed!

saj1985 said:
I love gajar (carrot) halwa, absolutely amazing stuff
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Spot on. I had it a wedding when it was served warm with vanilla ice cream, it was dynamite.
 
just grabbed these molton brown ultra pure milk soap from a local shop 6 for £1, looks like they must've been for the wynn resort, just had a quick google search and it seems wynn resorts is in Las Vegas USA and it actually looks nice lol, either way proper bargain!

 

@pjgh you just reminded me mate because of your post about the yaqi helmet on the thread

I got this cheapo de razor from a local shop, thought I'd use it for manscaping as my Wilkinson sword plastic just broke as in the twisty bit of the head that goes in on the handle, so I thought I'll use this cheapy one anyways whilst opening it out the package I notice the handle is quite nice with decent weight to it, head feels cheapy but that's what you get for a couple of quid but flipping heck I was surprised when I saw the blade exposure, serious amount of exposure on this de razor, I've decided to use it for head shaving instead and I'm intrigued to see how it performs

Here's a few pics for you all,
to show you what I mean by the blade exposure

 
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