Samrat Dairy Sweet

Out on Judges Bunglows Road in the Bodakdev area of Surat, things stay pretty busy. Samrat Dairy Sweet is right there at 7 4222, and it is a place where we spend most of our morning setting things out. The milk comes in early, usually before the sun is even up, and we have to get it sorted. The glass counters are filled with different sweets that we make throughout the day. You can usually smell the sugar and the ghee if you stand near the back. It gets quite warm in the kitchen area where the big pots are. We have some people who have been coming here for years just to get their daily milk or a box of something for their kids. The floor is made of tiles that we have to mop a few times a day because it gets sticky. Sometimes the traffic on the road gets backed up and people just pull over to wait it out here. We have some stools if anyone wants to sit, but most people just take their bags and head out. We don't have a big sign or anything too flashy. It is just a dairy shop where we work from morning until late at night. The fridge hums in the corner and we just keep the shelves stocked with whatever we have made that day. It is simple work but it keeps us busy. Most of the time we just talk about the local news while we wait.