Kv Sweets

You can find us on Old Market Road in Piravom. It’s an old street, and we’ve been part of it for a while now. The shop is usually filled with the smell of frying oil and boiling milk. We start making the sweets early in the morning so they are fresh when the market gets busy. We have these glass counters where we put out the laddoos, jalebis, and whatever else we made that day. It isn't a large place, so when three or four people come in at once, it feels quite full. We spend a lot of our time in the back kitchen area. It’s hot work, standing over the large vats, stirring things until they thicken up just right. We don’t use any machines for the shaping; we do most of it by hand. On festival days, it gets really chaotic and we barely have time to breathe, let alone sit down. The rest of the time, it’s just a steady stream of locals stopping by for a small paper bag of snacks. We know most of the kids who come in with their parents, pointing at the brightly colored pieces behind the glass. The floor is usually a bit sticky no matter how much we scrub it, but that’s just how sweet shops are. We just keep making the batches and serving them over the counter until the trays are empty. It’s a simple way to make a living.