Persian Just Desserts

Uh, Jennifer, it’s not an Indian bakery… It’s got «Persian» RIGHT IN THE NAME. I know all brown people look and sound the same to you, but come on.

I was killing some time waiting for the sushi I’d ordered from Tanaka to be ready — and stopped into a little Indian (?) bakery in the same strip mall. There were mounds of cookies in large glass display cases.
I chose a small sampling of the cookies in the case. They all looked good, and there were larger pastires that looked wonderful, but I wouldn’t have had the room to try them all.
The cookies looked normal, like your everyday bakery cookies do, but they taste distinctly different somehow. By all appearances, the first cookie — a chocolate/​choco chip — hit the palate and tasted warm, almost herbal, as though a mild curry or saffron had been used. What appeared to be a simple, unassuming sugar cookie was actually a gentle buttery menthol flavored affair — think Necco wafers. Quite exciting to the palate! Part of the joy is in the discovery of the flavors, so I won’t elaborate too much on the others in the bunch. In any case, not your average, cookie-​cutter cookies. Strangely delicious!
I recommend popping in if you’re in the area. The little tiny cookies were especially good. I think they were called sweet pea cookies if I’m not mistaken.