Asal Sweet

Would NOT go back. Custumer service was good but the sweets tasted a bit off. A little sour.
I think I can spend my money better else where.

A great sweet shop in Merrylands selling biscuits, slices, cakes - Persian sweets. There's also booths to sit at. We tried different biscuits, I particularly liked the coconut ones and the vanilla slice. Interesting rosewater flavours to the sweets. Not too expensive either.

The Asal Sweet store in Merrylands is a satellite store to the hard-to-find Granville parent. It's been open for about a year, and is a family business, building upon twenty-five years of pastry experience in Tehran, Iran. Their well-stocked counter is full of traditional Iranian shirini khoshk (dry sweets) and French-influenced shirini tar (moist sweets). This particular store specialises in cookies and the shirini nargili (coconut cookies) are amazing! They look like they’re going to be quite hard, but you’ll find they have moist centres. You’ll also find almond, saffron and sultana versions, all priced at a buck apiece, but it’s the coconut macaroon-style cookies that won me. Though if you're allergic to wheat, ask for naan berenji - they're a rice-based cookie, that's turned yellow with saffron (a typical Persian ingredient). As with most sweet shops from this part of the world, because cookies are common gifts and served to visitors to your home, they’re mostly bought by the kilo or ...read more