Tour 5

This is a different kind of Kolkatte. The ingredients are all mixed and pressed in the hand and then put it to steam. A very nice taste when you have it in your mouth.

Tour 4

This Shanti's Sweet and Spicy Kolkatte. A treat to her costumers.

Tour 3

Beside the food container is a steel like box where she keeps sugar, kolkatte and scraped coconut. Shanti uses brown sugar to her spring hoppers and Putu.

Tour 3

The second tier of her container is where her Idiyappam or Spring Hoppers are kept. When she opened her food containers the spring hoppers looked fresh and pipping hot.

Tour 2

The first layer is where she keeps her Putu. In this picture Shanti has shown the various types of Putu she has done. She has also come up with Nestum Food. Great tasting stuff when eaten with sugar and scraped coconut.

Tour inside her mobile food court

This is Shanti's Mobile Food Court. Inside the large container she keeps warm Putu of various flavor and Spring Hoppers. Often her food is pipping hot.

Her Costumers

Shanti's costumers are from different races. She says that mostly her clients are Indians as they order her delicacies for various occasions. Some of them like to have a light meal in the night and so they go for Putu or Spring Hoppers. For instance if they have a small gathering or maybe even for festivals there will be ample orders and sometimes she finds it hard to cope but the determined lady says she loves her job and with the help of her family she will be able to cope up with whatever orders she gets.

Shanti feels that this business is god send because she and her husband have came along way and she says she still has room for improvement. Very soon Shanti is going to come up with different menus to satisfy the taste bud of her costumers

Shanti

This is Shanti in her mobile food court. Packing food for costumers. She said her clean mobile food court is her pride

On Her business

Some days she leaves the house as early as possible so as to get her delicacies to the on time. Sometimes orders are made and this means extra work. On such days the whole family including her children lends out their helping hand to their mother and father.

Now that her son is in college Shanti became more independent and now have a lot of costumers. They not only love her delicacies but also her as Shanti is a soft spoken people and many people love to stop by to buy and chat with her for a while

Her Pride

Shanti said most of her delicacies are prepared hygienically so as to attract more customers. When she first started her was with her all the way. She use to pillion ride on the motorbike. Her husband did not allow her to move b y herself taking account for safety. Once her son moved to college she decided to take matters in her hands by moving around on her own.

In the beginning it was hard as she was new. Once people begin to know here and hertempting delicacies the response was good.

All About Shanti

Shanti a mother of 3 children is a solo Putu Mayam (Spring Hoppers) vendor. How does her day starts. She smiled and said it is tedious but she is used to it after all this year. She says her days starts pretty early in the morning. Not only has she to tend to her school going children but to house work as well. Two of her children who are going to college is not to bad but she has to get her young boy Darshan off to school. Once house work done she has to prepare the ingredients for her business.

While she and her husband prepare the ingredients she had to tend to the steaming delicacies. Most of her delicacies are cooked by herself.