More Than Sweets: How Makkuse is Packaging Nepal’s Heritage

For 26-year-old Samiksha Shrestha, the taste of pustakari and gundpak brings back childhood memories. She remembers visiting a local sweet shop in Nardevi with her mother and insisting on buying the traditional treats every time they passed by.

“Whenever we crossed that road, I would always ask my mother to buy me those sweets,” she recalled with a smile.