The Okra Oyster Capsules I Heard About at the Wet Market—Two Things I Only Realized After Looking Them Up at Home
I'm someone who really loves wandering through the wet market. If I don't make a loop there on a weekend morning, the whole week feels like something's missing. Last weekend, standing in front of the stall where I always buy vegetables, I overheard the auntie at the seafood stall next door chatting with a customer. She was saying how lots of people have been asking her how best to eat oysters, and that okra is a good thing too, and then she blurted out, "These two together are great for looking after your health." At the time I just found it amusing, but after I got home and put the groceries in the fridge, that sentence kept turning over in my head.
Honestly, I'm sensitive to the phrase "looking after your health," because in recent years too many people around me have lumped together wet-market common sense, elders' experience, and health supplements with pretty packaging printed all...