Bob Marley and Jesus watch you bite into a mutton pan roll

Allan Pereira of Candies, the man behind Bandra's most popular chain of snack shacks, is also an amateur mosaic artist. Drop by at the Pali Hill outlet to check out a giant new mosaic dedicated to peace

Plump foil plate of Lasagna, a scrumptious-tangy Prawn Pattice, a refreshing Lemonadeu00a0- you can't run out of reasons to drop by at any of Bandra's three Candies outlets. But here's one more. The Pali branch boasts a brand new, gigantic peace mosaic that brings together Bob Marley, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama.

Ambassadors of peace spread their message through a massive, colourful mosaic at Candies. PICs/SATYAJIT DESAIu00a0

You walk through the courtyard that carries sun-moon motifs, and wind your way to the roof. The climb is symbolic of proprietor and self-taught mosaic enthusiast Allan Pereira's design journey. So, while the patterns at the ground level are simple, small, even raw, they gradually get intricate as you move up, and by the time you step out into the Sky Garden, with ambassadors of peace in marble smiling down at you, you know that the amiable, bald man who talks little and smiles a lot, has put his heart into his art.

The Bandra resident painstakingly puts together coloured marble bits to create pensive faces of women, Biblical scenes, birds and abstracts. "It's therapeutic. The religious references aren't deliberate. I don't even read the Bible. These are just pretty images I may have seen somewhere. They've stayed with me," he says.u00a0