Updated On: 26 September, 2021 08:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Nidhi Lodaya
One of Mumbai’s oldest and fondest sweet shops has imported a packaging technique from Germany to ensure the sweets arrive at their destination with flavours intact

Not replacing mawa with maida is what prevents their gulab jamun from having a hard, rubbery texture
As a Mumbaikar, it’s is likely that you’ve sampled Jhama’s mithai at some point in your life. The 60-year-old, family-run sweet shop with a home in Chembur Camp is known for its traditional, melt-in-the-mouth gulab jamun and sev-barfi.
The brand, launched in 1948 by Jhamamal Lulla, a post-Partition refugee, recently pivoted to online deliveries by launching a website that acts as an online store. It’s what the family’s young business minds wanted to explore given the COVID-accelerated migration to digital. Through their website, they are now delivering pan-India and “on special requests we are also delivering internationally but that is not on our website yet,” says Rishay Lulla,Lulla, the family’s third generation entrepreneur helming the business.