While it is a growing fashion to want to be the first person to have done something or other, I doubt that 34-year-old Wu Tiandong, is feeling fashionable. That's because he is the first foreign national to have been arrested in Bihar for violating prohibition, yaniki anti-booze law. In Bihar for work, he was arrested for being in possession of a bottle or two. As if it wasn't bad enough, that poor Tiangdong was in jail, a sly sub-editor somewhere served up this headline: Hakka noodles in prison for Chinese who landed in soup.

Turns out poor Tiangdong can't eat Indian prison food because it too spicy. So, he was on a 'prison-sponsored' diet of Hakka noodles and boiled vegetables (a diet which might drive some to alcohol) said the news report, sniffily.
I particularly sympathise with this story as a person who was shocked to discover that there is no alcohol allowed on the Lakshadweep islands when I was going there on vacation some years ago. Chalo, I thought, they don't sell it, but surely I could take some along? That too was forbidden under a list of scary consequences. I considered sneaking some in a bottle of shampoo but finally relented to the pleading of my extremely law-abiding companion.