A three-ingredient sweet -- sugar, ghee, and Bengal gram -- that melts in the mouth. Despite the name, Chennai reportedly sells more Mysore Pak than Mysore itself, and the city has settled into two distinct schools of preparation.
Multiple locations across the city serve the soft "mysurpa" style -- this is the most popular takeaway sweet from Chennai, and the version most visitors end up buying a box of before leaving.
A genuinely different texture preference, also available across multiple locations. If you've only had the soft version, the crumbly style is worth trying as a comparison -- they're different enough that "Mysore Pak" undersells the range within the category.
Jalebi, Adhirasam, Payasam, Boli, and Kozhukkatta round out Chennai's sweet-stop options, available widely across the city's sweet shops and festival-season stalls.
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