Balaji Seeval Store

If you are down on Medavakkam Main Road in Madipakkam, you will see Balaji Seeval Store. This is Chennai, so it gets really hot, and people are always looking for something to munch on during tea time. We specialize in seeval and all those crunchy, salty snacks that people here love. It’s a small shop, and the smell of fried snacks usually hangs in the air, which I don’t even notice anymore, but customers say it’s strong. We have been serving the Madipakkam area for a while, and most of our regulars come by every evening on their way home from work. They want a small packet of this or a half-kilo of that. The shelves are mostly filled with transparent plastic bags so people can see exactly what they are buying. I spend a lot of time tieing up those bags with rubber bands or weighing them on the old scale. Sometimes the traffic on the main road is so bad that people can’t even pull over their bikes to come in. I just sit there and watch the buses go by until someone finally stops. It’s not a fancy supermarket experience; it’s just a local snack shop where we talk about the weather or the local news while I pack their items. We don't have a website or anything like that, just our presence here on the busy road.