Nishi-Kasai is famous for its plentiful Indian restaurants, both North and South Indian styles, catering to a large local Indian community. Tokyo Mithai Wala is probably the city's only specialist Indian sweets shop. From outside the front window, it looks like a high-class French patisserie or chocolaterie, with rows of colorful bonbons arranged in a long glass showcase. Mostly made of flour, ghee and sugar, the sweet cakes are flavored with cardamom, coconut, rose, pistachio and chocolate, dusted with coconut and silver. If you can't choose from the wide array, the shop offers handy selection boxes of mixed "laddu" (round balls) or "burfi" (square cakes) to try.

Upstairs, the second floor is a bright and airy canteen offering street food, snacks and sweets from Delhi and Mumbai. The lunch menu offers sets with curry, bread and drink for around Y1,000. Pav Bhaji is a toasted roll that comes with a pea-and-potato curry. Chole Bhature is a chickpea curry that comes with two giant fried breads, while Aloo Puri is a potato curry and regular fried bread set. All the lunch sets come with hot chai or lassi.

You can also get vegetable samosas or cheese (paneer) pakodas, South Indian-style Masala Dosa (a large crepe with potato curry), and even Delhi-style pizza with paneer cheese, sweet corn and bell peppers. The perfect end to lunch is a single Galum Jamun, a deep-fried donut-like sponge served hot with cardamom syrup.

On Hindu festival days the shop also offers specialties such as Thandai, a delicious cocktail of almonds, fennel seed, pistachio, cashewnuts in milk flavored with saffron and cloves. For Holi festival, the menu includes Aloo Kachodi Chaat, a deep-fried flakey pastry stuffed with moong lentils and served with potato curry and chutney.