Mumbai is defined partly by its fishing community, just like it is partly by Bollywood. We get our seafood weighed in the market, bargaining for the produce. But with bombil, we don't have to raise our voice with the fishmonger. It's cheap anyway. And that's one of the main reasons why the city's indigenous Koli community swears by it, outside of many other factors that we will address in this article.

Bombil is found closer to the coastline than most other fish