The heady aroma of dilpasand announces the presence of the bakery well before I actually see it. Sri Surya Bakery, near the now-shuttered Kapali theatre in Bengaluru’s Majestic area, is plain and simple, save for some mirrors on the wall.

It serves the perennially popular bisi breadu (freshly baked hot bread), buns, and other carb-laden delicacies: flaky vegetable puff, crispy rusk, crumbly spicy nippattu (fried gram flour), sticky sweet honey cake oozing with jam, tea buns stuffed with aloo palya (potato curry). And of course the iconic dilpasand, a puff filled with sweetened coconut and tutti frutti.

An octogenarian with a ‘namam’ on his forehead walks in to buy bread. “I have been buying bread for breakfast from here for years,” he smiles.A migrant worker and shop staff communicate in broken Hindi and a packet of benne (butter) biscuits is sold.

Manning the cash counter this Sunday evening is 28-year-old Aditya, an accountant at Ernst & Young. He is the fourth generation in his family to work at an ‘Iyengar bakery’. His great-grandfather H.S. Thirumalachar is said to have started Bengaluru’s very first first Iyengar bakery, B. B. Bakery in 1898....Read more

Source web page:The Hindu