Hair Om Sweets

The shop sits right on New Sanganer Road in Sodala. If you’ve been through here, you know how loud and busy the traffic gets. We spend most of our time in the back where the large pots are. Making sweets is mostly about patience and heat. We start with the milk and sugar early in the morning, usually before the sun is even fully up. The smell of frying ghee usually fills the space by eight. We aren't a big factory or anything, just a local sweet shop where we make things by hand. Some days the barfi sets just right, and other days we have to work a bit harder at it. Sodala is a place where people are always rushing to work, so we sell a lot of snacks to folks passing by. We have the usual stuff like laddoos and jalebis. It’s a messy job, honestly. There's flour on the counters and the floor gets sticky, but we clean up as we go. We don’t have fancy packaging or big lights. Most of our customers are the same people who live in the lanes behind the shop. They come in for a half-kilo of something when they have guests or just want a treat after dinner. It’s a simple business. We just make the food, put it in the glass cases, and wait for the day to finish. That’s how it goes here in Jaipur.