A lot of fish is available along the long coastline and the Bombay Prawn and Pomfret preparations are delicious. Further down south along the coast, in Goa, a Portuguese influence is evident in dishes like the sweet and sour Vindaloo, duck baffad, sorpotel and egg molie. In Kerala, lamb stew and appams, Malabar fried prawns and idlis, fish molie and dosai, rice puttu and sweetened coconut milk are the many combinations eaten at breakfast. Puttu is glutinous rice powder steamed like a pudding in a bamboo shoot. Kheer' or 'payasam' are equivalents of the rice pudding and 'Kulfi' is an Indian ice cream made in conical moulds and frozen.
Tea is drunk as a beverage in India.
Tea from the hills of Darjeeling and Kalimpong are boiled in milk and water and served with a liberal dose of sugar. Filtered coffee is a favorite among South Indians and is a very sweet, milky version of coffee. Many varieties of foreign whiskies, rum, even Tequila is available in India now. Indian beers like 'Kingfisher' and 'Kalyani' are mild in comparison to the Australian ones. Grover vineyards' have a good red and a decent pink.