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> "...but for many Chinese, they would not want to eat the oysters without grilling them with mashed garlic and chili sauce.”

At first that sounded gross (I, I guess like the danish, prefer them raw with a little lemon), but now I kind of want to try it. I think I'm going to try to find a place in NYC that serves oysters this way.

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I live in Japan and I stopped eating raw oysters. The oysters that are consumed in Asia are quite different from the ones that grow in the Atlantic or the Mediterranean. They are just bland when row. They don't have this amazing sea taste that you would find in a "plateau de fruits de mer".

There are a great variety of oysters in any sea. Warmer climate facilitate faster growing, colder slower.

If you're eating bland ones are you in warm seas or eating from such? That bland taste happens when anything grows faster. Go up north, same in Western hemisphere.

there are quite a few things you can do with oysters, the British used to use them to pad meat pies out:

http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/beef-stout-oyster-p...

you can even brew with them:

http://www.merseabrewery.co.uk/beers/oyster-stout

(apparently the shells used to be used to clear the beer, which evolved to brewers starting adding them whole)

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