TNN/Nov 04, 2021, 10:38AM IST
While the foodies know the city of Lucknow for its delicious kebabs, many are not aware that the city also owns the crown of having India’s most expensive sweet, Exotica that comes at a whopping price of Rs 50000 per kilogram. Designed and developed by the popular sweet shop Chhappan Bhog, the dry mithai is now world recognized Exotica is a bite-size dessert that is made with 7-8 ingredients sourced from different parts of the world, blueberries sourced from USA, macadamia from South Africa and Australia, hazelnut from Europe, pine nuts, saffron and mamra badam from other parts of the world one batch of Exotica takes 6-7 hours of making and is only available at the Sadar Bazaar, Lucknow store.Exotica comes in a wooden treasure box - (sandook), which adds to the beauty and USP of this dessert and also increases the shelf life of sweets by 20-30 days.” The most interesting part of this sweet is the outer coating which is made of pure edible gold.
