One of the sights in Fort Cochin are the fishing nets, some say introduced from China during the time of Kubla Khan. The large structures still catch fish, but mainly they catch tourists. Large stones weigh a set of logs that drop nets into the water where they are left for a while and the net is raised by a series of ropes. I was eating some of that fish, cooked in tandoori style, last night when I asked if they had beer, there being none on the menu and I did not see any beer bottles on other tables. The waiter said that they did not have a license, they could not serve beer, but they had tea. So he brought a teapot with beer inside and a mug. At any rate, it set off the fish just fine after another hot day and evening. The tea cost about the price of a large beer.
