Eating in China
Oysters with rough layered shells; one opened shell shows the oyster meat.

Oyster

牡蠣Mǔlì

A bivalve shellfish with two hinged shell halves; the omelet uses the shucked meat.

Type
Fish and seafood

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

A bivalve shellfish with two hinged shell halves; the omelet uses the shucked meat.

In the kitchen

Cooked with egg and starch in the Taiwanese oyster omelet.

Do not assume the oysters in the Taiwanese omelet are Pacific oysters.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有牡蠣吗?

Does this dish contain Oyster?

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