Deepak Masala Store

Our little shop is Deepak Masala Store, and we are located in Shahdara, right in the Chhota Bazar at number 494. If you walk into the market, you can usually smell the spices before you even see the sign. We’ve got bags of turmeric, chili, and cumin sitting out. It’s a very old building, so the floors are a bit uneven and the wooden shelves are sagging a little under the weight of the jars. We’ve been here in Chhota Bazar for quite a long time. It’s a family thing, really. We spend our mornings grinding some of the mixes and packing them into smaller bags. It gets very crowded in the evenings when everyone is getting things for dinner. There’s not much room to move around inside when more than three people come in at once. We don’t have a website or anything like that. People just know where we are. Sometimes we run out of something because the delivery didn't show up on time, but that’s just part of running a shop in this area. We drink a lot of tea and talk to the regulars who have been buying from us since they were kids. It’s a simple life, surrounded by the smell of spices all day. The door squeaks every time someone opens it, but we never got around to oiling it. The scale we use is a bit old, but it still works perfectly fine for what we need.