Lip Service

This has been something that we had learned to enjoy for years now, but not till just recently did we see things in a new light.

Our first time was, of course, a bit apprehensive of what to expect but well, we guess everyone have to start somewhere. Just how well one's experience is depends on the situation and how one reacts to it, we guess.

Our first time, we were curious, we admit! Of course, we did try and act as if we were cool about it.

How would our experience be like? Would it be the same as how we saw other people enjoying it?

How would it feel as it pass through our lips? Would it be cold or not? Is it slimy? Would it taste salty? Or sourish?

Were we suppose to let it slip around our tongue before swallowing?

So many questions. Not really like us - so we just took the plunge. Didn't even bother closing our eyes.

Well, we must say that oysters really taste lovely. Except that we only take ours with a dash of lemon and a pinch of salt. No tobasco sauce, thank you. Oysters don't have that strong taste we get with cockles that infest our char kuey teow.

Now, what did we find new about oysters then? That it's an aphrodisiac? No. But rather, that they look like...lips.

It's a mighty shame we didn't bring the iXus to take a better macro of the actual oyster we had.

See, we were out at dinner at this chinese restaurant and was enjoying our curry seafood noodles when we started on the oysters. Now all our past oyster-mooching were done in restaurants where it comes served in a nice platter with crushed ice and you have a small fork to use, not chopsticks. With chopsticks, we'd to get a grip on the oyster and so for the first time we see...lips.

The others didn't appreciate our point of view. And well, we always thought that the aphrodisiac was in the way people glugged down the oyster.