Al-Naimat Sweets & Restaurant

Al-Naimat offers "all kinds of Pakistani, Indian, and Bangladeshi cuisine," but even if you never make it past the sweets counter, you can still get your veggies from gajar halwa (top photo; about $1), grated carrots prepared with clarified butter, milk, sugar, and perhaps cardamom, and topped with sliced almonds. Also look for pale green dudhi halwa, made from squash.

On another occasion, a pistachio-flecked square of almond burfi (bottom photo; 75 cents) hovered somewhere between fudge and marzipan.

Al-Naimat Sweets & Restaurant
37-03 74th St. (37th Rd.-Roosevelt Ave.), Jackson Heights, Queens
718-476-1100