A three-ingredient sweet -- sugar, ghee, and Bengal gram -- that melts in the mouth. Chennai reportedly sells more Mysore Pak than the city of Mysore itself, and the city has settled into two distinct, genuinely different preparation styles.
Available across multiple locations, this is the most popular takeaway sweet from Chennai -- the version most visitors end up buying before heading home.
A different texture preference entirely, also widely available -- worth trying both styles side by side if you want to understand why "Mysore Pak" undersells the range within this one sweet.
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