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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="168" data-total-count="2779">“In a single festival, you can eat Gujarati snacks while listening to performances in Tamil, and watching South Indian dance,” said Kalpana Fruitwala, an organizer.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="337" data-total-count="3116">For the event, Subash Chander, the owner of the popular Bombay Sweets &amp; Snacks in suburban Irving, creates a pack of Bengali mithai, milk- and nut-based sweets. It includes neon-pink chum chum (coconut-coated milk solids), and gulab jamun (syrup-soaked balls of deep-fried batter) filled with a silky mixture of cream and ground almonds.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="369" data-total-count="3485">On a recent afternoon, Mr. Chander was deeply concentrating on an enormous mixing bowl heated to exactly 450 degrees, making sure the milk and shredded coconut for the chum chum were being churned to the ideal softness. If the temperature rises even a few degrees, or the mixture is stirred for too long, he said, the treat loses its luxurious, slightly bouncy texture.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="139" data-total-count="3624">“You have to be very patient,” Mr. Chander said. “Only after 18 years have I figured out the secret to making chum chum this soft.”</p><figure id="media-100000005516018" class="media photo embedded layout-large-vertical media-100000005516018" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/11/01/dining/01DiwaliJump3/01DiwaliJump3-blog427.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group">
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="220" data-total-count="3844">The response at the festival makes all the care worthwhile. “All night, we have this big line that wraps around many times,” he said. “It got so long that the organizers had to install stands for people to wait.”</p><div id="story-ad-2" class="story-ad ad ad-placeholder nocontent robots-nocontent ">
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="264" data-total-count="4108" id="story-continues-5">Lalith Thota, who is busy preparing to open the restaurant <a href="http://www.india101.us/">India 101</a>, also in Irving, will make jangiri, a thick, patterned fritter soaked in sugar syrup (with a shape not unlike that State Fair of Texas staple, funnel cake) that is eaten widely in Andhra Pradesh.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="195" data-total-count="4303">Nearby, at the restaurant <a href="http://www.bawarchiirving.com/">Bawarchi Biryanis</a>, Anil Sukkagopal said his Diwali booth will serve Mysore pak, a rich, crumbly pastry made of ghee and chickpea flour that has its origins in Karnataka.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="209" data-total-count="4512">“We want to create an environment like the street markets in Bombay,” Mr. Sukkagopal said. “We’ll be yelling and shouting about our food. People will be crowding around. It’s a sensory experience.”</p><figure id="media-100000005516019" class="media photo embedded layout-small-vertical media-100000005516019" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/11/01/dining/01DiwaliJump4/01DiwaliJump4-master180.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group">
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="315" data-total-count="4827">At his booth, Naga Kolli, the owner of the South Indian restaurant <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/magazine/masala-dosa-to-die-for.html?_r=0">Saravanaa Bhavan</a>, in nearby Plano, will supplement a menu of dosas and idlis with payasam, a comforting, saffron-stained milk pudding popular in Tamil Nadu, where the dish is often consumed first thing in the morning on Diwali, right after prayers.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="202" data-total-count="5029">Testing the recipe in the restaurant’s kitchen, a cook tossed in just-fried cashews and raisins into a bubbling stainless steel vat filled with milk and vermicelli noodles, to add richness and crunch.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="253" data-total-count="5282">“We make it because it is made especially for Diwali in certain places,” Mr. Naga said, adding with a laugh, “The only disadvantage of payasam is that because it’s more of a liquid, people have a hard time walking around the festival with it.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="181" data-total-count="5463">The Dallas celebration has come a long way since 1994, when it began as a house party with about 50 guests, bootleg fireworks and catered food at Mr. Gupta’s home in North Dallas.</p><figure id="media-100000005516022" class="media photo embedded layout-small-vertical media-100000005516022" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/11/01/dining/01DiwaliJump5/01DiwaliJump5-master180.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group">
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="376" data-total-count="6931">The festival has played an enormous role in expanding the impact of the Indian community, whose population in the Dallas area alone <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2012/01/11/asian-indian-population-booming-in-dallas-fort-worth">more than doubled</a> between 2000 and 2010. There is now a petition going around the Coppell Independent School District to make Diwali an official school holiday, and last year a seasonal Diwali postage stamp had its Texas debut at the mela here.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="199" data-total-count="7130">On Saturday, vendors will arrive at the Cotton Bowl at 10 a.m. and not leave until well after midnight, when stalls once loaded with chum chum and biryani have been completely emptied of their goods.</p><button class="button comments-button  theme-speech-bubble-large" data-skip-to-para-id="">
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