Cockles. Never in my life I could put this creature into my mouth.
Had a hearty dinner with the usual at Boon Lay Market few weeks ago. As an appetizer, they ordered cockles to start the meal with. I seriously do not know what's so nice about cockles and to think of the way they live and fed on, it seriously turned me off.
The way that this plate of cockles is been served is pretty simple. Boiled. And the best part is, it is not even evenly cooked.. A demonstration of how-to-eat-a-bloody-cockles was given by Jimmy. It stinks and it is really bloody but then, Jimmy seems to love every tiny bit of it. Hahahhaha
Boiled cockles are sold at many hawker centres in Singapore and are used in laksa, char kway teow and even steamboats. Cockles are sold freshly cooked as a snack in the United Kingdom, particularly around the parts of the British coastline which are inhabited by cockles. Boiled then seasoned with malt vinegar and white pepper, they can be bought from seafood stalls, alongside mussels, whelks, jellied eels, crabs and shrimps. Cockles are also available pickled in jars, and more recently, have been sold in sealed packets (with vinegar) containing a plastic two-pronged fork. A meal of cockles fried with bacon, served with laver bread, is known as a traditional Welsh breakfast.
I have repeatedly telling my friends that consumption of raw cockles can be linked to hepatitis but no one seems to believe me.
My favourite and they are the MUST order dishes when I visit any hawker centres. =D
