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Tradition says
The maharaja, tired of the royal kitchen's repertoire, asked Madappa for something new. He made a fudge of gram flour, ghee and sugar syrup - paka in Kannada - and the king liked it enough to have him open a shop outside the palace so the public could taste it. That shop is this one.
Historians say
The shop where Mysore Pak began. Run today by the descendants of Kakasura Madappa, the royal cook who created the sweet; his great-grandson still runs it. Sells both the soft ghee block and the crunchy type.