Seagull hotel

 

In good old days of pre covid 

Seagull is a quaint restaurant in Fort Cochin which has existed in the spot since the time we came to Cochin in the late eighties .

Its still the same old worldish placevbut now also a Beer Wine place

Since it was saturday it was crowded but we did manage to get a bayside table .

The view was the best with a well lit oil tanker berthed opposite the shimmering backwaters and sundry boats and a couple of navy frigates sailing by .

It was dark  to see sea gulls but they should be around too .

Lot of youngsters flocked to the place the beer bringing them in droves I think and on a distant table was a quiet old gentleman siping his draught slowly, and by the time we left he had finished four without batting an eyelid !

We had gone only for food as I am not particular on beer much ,maybe a cocktail or a frozen vodka .

We did have a huge chembilli polichathu fish which was very tasty .

Its masalas were well melded as it sat in its green canopy of a plantain leaf (the place wasnt lit well so the photo wasnt good )the flesh soft white with not much thorns to worry about.

The parotta was huge ,tomatoe fry crunchy french fries wasnt bad and the lime juice strangely for kerala cold 😁

Think a day other than saturday would have been better .

I was thinking of quayside in Diamond harbour Sydney .

Somehow there was a similarity in the long bay with ships gliding close to you and the smell of salty sea .

Imagine what Fort Cochin would be if it was owned by any other country than ours .

The place would be a throbbing pub restaurant museum shopping tourist center unlike the sad ill lit pot holed roads and the occasional restsurant filled to its gills broken pavements dark alleys and unkempt gardens .😢

With crores going waste the corporation of Cochin continues to exist with its catfights and swindle

Disgusting .

It was a fine evening 

Something different but we walked out feeling kerala is a garland but given to monkeys