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| Bombay duck
Language: English
Description: A small fish native to Bombay, this is bommaloe macchi, the name of which the British found difficult to pronounce, hence "Bombay duck". It is dried and salted, impregnated with asafoetida and made into a crispy deep-fried fish starter or used as an accompaniment to curry. It is also used to flavour other dishes.
| This is the fish used in "Bombay duck" kindly photographed by Siddharth Dasgupta in Kolkata. He points out that there are flies on the fish, typical of many markets. |
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Latin: Harpodon nehereus
Ethnicity: Indian Subcontinent
Also known as: bombil, bommaloe machchi, bummaloe, sookha bomil, sookha boomla
See foods and dishes: asafoetida
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