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Delhi Madan Lal Halwai Sweet Shop: Madanlal confectionery of Old Delhi is famous for the sweets of Desi Ghee. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Shah Rukh Khan, Imtiaz Ali have been crazy about it.
Highlights
- Madanlal confectionery is famous for desi ghee sweets.
- Came from Lahore to Haridwar, after partition started selling sweets in Delhi.
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Shah Rukh Khan have been crazy about this shop.
Among all these shops, food shops at first number have been considered as hub of big politicians and celebrities. However, even today many of these people come here and taste the dishes of these shops. On the other hand, if the matter of Madanlal confectionery is done, then it is said that the sweets of this shop used to go to Parliament once and former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to Indira Gandhi and Bollywood’s big celebrities Shah Rukh Khan, Imtiaz Ali to Raj Kapoor have been crazy about this shop.
Rupabh, who is the seventh generation of Madan Lal Halwai, said that this shop was started by his great -grandfather Madanlal in Lahore city of Pakistan. But there came a time when he came from Lahore to Haridwar to get his housemate shaved and suddenly the country was divided from behind, due to which he could never go back to Pakistan and hence he thought of doing something by staying here. He further told that after that his great -grandfather came from Haridwar towards Delhi and then he came to Delhi and started selling some sweets by selling gold coils in his ears and started selling it in Old Delhi. Slowly, he bought a small shop while selling sweets, after which he drove this shop so well that from big politicians to big celebrities became crazy about his sweets.
That’s why big politicians and celebrities come here
The biggest thing about this sweets shop is that this is the shop ever since they started, they have never made sweets without desi ghee. At the same time, raspberry to Pinni and many other sweets have been their specialty. Whose crazy people are many big people, especially Bollywood’s big director Imtiaz Ali and like to eat Gulab Jamun of his shop very much. The rates of shop sweets go from at least ₹ 500 kg to ₹ 800 kg. This shop is still present in the name of Madanlal Halwai on Sadar Bazar police station road in Old Delhi. At the same time, the shop is open from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm.