Bombay Duck appears as a signature dish in 1 India cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Bombay duck (bombil rava fry) · Mumbai
Bombil (lizardfish), semolina-coated and pan-fried. The Koli signature dish; the fish is named for the colonial-era post (Bombay Dak) that shipped it salted.
Bombay duck is not a duck but bombil, a lizardfish found off the Mumbai coast. The Koli community has salted and sun-scorched bombil on bamboo racks for centuries. The fresh fish is rava-coated and pan-fried in Koli kitchens and at Mahesh, Trishna and Gajalee. The colonial-era nickname came from salted bombil shipped as cargo (dak = mail).
Where to eat in Mumbai:
- Mahesh Lunch Home
- Trishna
- Gajalee