Himalayan Bazaar on El Cajon Boulevard in La Mesa stocks thousands of Indian and Nepalese grocery items inside a storefront at the La Mesa Crossroads shopping center. The shelves carry one of the deepest bulk-spice selections in east San Diego County — turmeric, cumin, coriander, fenugreek, and dozens of whole and ground blends — alongside the prepared-meal components that supply home cooks in the same El Cajon Boulevard corridor served by Aromas of India further west. A frozen-foods section runs deep with take-and-bake samosas, pre-rolled paratha and chapati doughs, and ready-to-heat curries, while a front display area sells incense, copper cookware, and Nepalese home-décor imports. The store opened in 2012 under the same ownership as the adjoining Himalayan Cuisine restaurant, creating a grocery-to-table pipeline where shoppers source raw spices on one side and order a finished chicken tikka masala or momo platter on the other — a dual-format model without parallel among specialty food vendors like La Mesa Village Farmers Market on Spring Street. The inventory spans sub-continental rice varieties including aged Basmati and Sona Masoori, more than two dozen lentil and pulse types for dal preparation, and a dedicated section of Nepali-specific ingredients alongside a full wall of loose-stick and cone incense sourced from the subcontinent.