It is a thick kheer made with milk and bottle gourd. They are made from various materials including bamboo, rattan, nito ferns, and bottle gourd. Bottle gourd can be added to it. The pungi is traditionally made from a dried bottle gourd. Fish is fried in mustard oil or stewed with bottle gourd or spinach. Sphenarches caffer, the bottle gourd plume moth, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. "Lau chingri", a dish prepared with bottle gourd and prawn, is popular in West Bengal. The English name of "Lagenaria siceraria", "bottle gourd", reflects its use as a liquid container. The bottle gourd is a symbol of the Xian immortals.