It was a wretched and humiliating experience trying to regurgitate it, and to give some idea of how evil this oyster was, when I blew my nose a few minutes later a piece of the oyster came out through my nose.
One thing is certain, which is that I won’t be trying Whitstable No 1’s again in a hurry, but I couldn’t miss the chance to go to Japan’s equivalent of Whitstable, Itoshima, which is about an hour to the west of Fukuoka on Kyushu Island. There are no fancy restaurants at Itoshima – there are just a few polytunnels set up on the quayside, from which the fishermen sell their oysters by the kilo. A kilo gives you 20 oysters, which cost £10, which is one sixth of the price at La Poissonnerie. The system is that each table has a barbecue in the centre on which you cook the oysters for about five minutes, after which time most of them will have opened, and for those that haven’t you are given a shucking knife and a glove. They were just fabulous and I polished off 20, each of them slipping down with no trouble at all.
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