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Are you Marathi by any chance? Jhinga or the alternative word Kolambi or Sungott is what I hear from Marathi or Konkani people, and not people from the North. I’ve never heard of river prawns growing in India, to be frank.
BTW, we also make Mangalorean yetti biriyani over here in the South. It is nothing like the Hyderabadi biriyani with it’s Mughlai influence. You could consider it as more of a casual biriyani.
They’re counted as western. Any group in India who speak Dravidian languages are considered as South Indian.