Cutting a grand silhouette under a gold crescent moon on the corner of Lakemba’s main drag and Railway Parade, Dhaka Delight immediately caught my eye. This long, thin Bangladeshi pastry store is a great place to load up on sugar, especially while sitting in a window seat watching this suburb come to life on a sleepy Sunday morning. Being familiar with Indian sweets, I wasn’t surprised to recognise some of the range from this close subcontinental neighbour. Dhaka Delight’s Gulab Jamun ($2/each) are a particularly delicious rendition of a sweet I’ve been eating since childhood. Like many sweets from the Indian subcontinent, they’re made using milk powder in place of where we might put flour. This gives sweets like this one a creamy, milky richness that’s offset by the cardamom and rose water flavouring the sugar syrup they’re soaked in. Some of the sweets I hadn’t seen before were the Cream Toasts ($3/each), which looked like unbaked miniature hotdogs in ...read more
