all the way to Malacca for dinner and back
July 21, 2008
It was all Rozita’s idea to drive all the way to the Portuguese Settlement in Malacca to have seafood and come back KL again. I had to go pee twice on the way because Ijam drove so fast and I got freaked. You know, some back seat no seatbelts? By 9.30pm, and we’re still not eating. I was so hungry that by the time the first dish came – the vege, I was already almost gulping my food. I don’t eat shellfish. So many people are crazy for oysters so I attempted to try it. With some squeezed lemon juice and some sambal asam, obediently under Rozita’s tutelage, I put the entire oyster in my mouth. I heard that some people just swallow it instead of chewing. I thought hey, no problem, if I could swallow pills, I could do this. Hell, no! The oyster lingered on my tongue touching my tonsil for a good 10 seconds as I contemplated in my head – Chew! Swallow! Chew! Swallow!
I chewed. An entire blast of metallic juice came tsunami in my mouth and I almost puked! As hard as I tried to swallow it, I spat it out. Ohhhhhhhhhh, I had chills and then goosebumps! Ewwwwwwww!!! Oysters suck! Rozita had me in video and she’s proud of it. To replace the wasted oyster, I consoled myself into ravaging the crabs and shrimps. Especially the crabs because I ate 4 and a half of them! Mmmmmm… Yummy… In the end, lesson learnt was – never be greedy. I am not feeling so good today… It was Rozita’s treat (lovely), and I won’t be anywhere near craving crabs again in the near future. Oysters are banned in this lifetime.
This is written 2 days after the seafood mania: I had bad diarrheoa and still having. Rozita and Ijam also. Must be the oysters. It had to be – EVIL!!!
