Yeah I spend a lot of time looking things up. It’s confounding because different parts of the country/ies may use different terms.
Mithai means sweets. Not sure if it’s just Pakistani or if the word is also used in India. I’ve only encountered it on Pakistani places but there is the famous Bombay Sweets and a couple of Bangladeshi sweets places that don’t use the word that I know of.
Dahi is a common word for yogurt so when you see that word the dish will have yogurt, usually as a topping of some sort rather than a background ingredient. Barey is just the name this particular dish/ingredient - I’ve never encountered this one before - a dumpling made from a flour made from black lentils.
Vada is a fried snack. Mehdu vada is a donut made from fermented lentils, a savory, not sweet, donut, obviously.
Keema is minced meat, so a samosa keema is a samosa with a filling of some kind of minced meat curry.
Qalaqand, also spelled Kalakand, is a sweet made of a ‘milk cake.’ Think a Pakistani version of Tres Leches. I’d never encountered this one before, either.
Barfee, also burfi, barfi, is a fudge like sweet made from sweetened condensed milk and flavored with things like pistachio, almond, coconut, carrot, etc.
Ladoo is harder for me to define, I’ve had so many different varieties, but they’re (almost always) round!
I don’t know how many places there are that are sweets shops like this. I generally avoid them. They’re dangerously addictive.
