Fresh Live Giant Clams For Dinner!
Last night’s traffic was awful! Going home I first passed through C-5 and it was totally jammed! I was able to make a lucky u-turn and tried going through EDSA, but just the same, EDSA was a parking lot! I made another lucky u-turn and made it back to Farmer’s Market parking lot in Cubao
It was past dinner time. I was getting hungry. Went inside the Dampa area and no surprise, did not find any cooked meats to my liking. I went down to the wet market and found…. GIANT CLAMS! “Halaan”. Biggest I’ve seen so far. Rare. The sellers themselves said these were rarely sold in the local markets. Usually they are exported. The seller said divers using compressed air suits do the harvesting of these deep sea clams. I don’t really know how deep.
These giant halaan clams cost 100 pesos per kilo. I added 20 pesos to ask the sellers to open the clams for me and put them in a plastic back for my dinner. How did the clams taste? Extremely salty! I think they put too much salt in the water they were dunked in for them to spit out mud and sand. I think next time I should wash these clams. I feel like I had salt overdose.
When I got home I had to wash over the salt with calamansi in water and some raw honey. That wasn’t enough. I got 1 tablespoon of ghee plus 3 tablespoons of organic white rice. Now that neutralized that terrible salt overdose. It was just instinct for me… what was available that I could grab and neutralize this salt overdose thing?
Maybe in the future I will get these clams for the kids. But after allowing them to spit their mud in salty water, I’ll replace the salty water with less salty water just to normalize things.
I took pictures of the giant halaan clams!
