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9 hours ago, Smithy said:

I jsut realized that I've never knowingly eaten a snail, unless you want to count conch. Even then, it was a restaurant's treatment and not mine. How does one cook those snails? Steam? Boil? Bake? And how is the meat extracted from them? Some sort of pick, like a crabmeat pick?

The snails are usually stewed and, here, very spicy. You could use a crabmeat pick, but toothpicks are more commonly used. Most Chinese restaurants have toothpick dispensers on each table, whether they sell snails or not.

Conches are technically larger sea snails, although popular nomenclature distinguishes. 

5 hours ago, Smithy said:

I jsut realized that I've never knowingly eaten a snail, unless you want to count conch. Even then, it was a restaurant's treatment and not mine. How does one cook those snails? Steam? Boil? Bake? And how is the meat extracted from them? Some sort of pick, like a crabmeat pick?

The snails are usually stewed and, here, very spicy. You could use a crabmeat pick, but toothpicks are more commonly used. Most Chinese restaurants have toothpick dispensers on each table, whether they sell snails or not.

Conches and snails are technically larger sea snails, although popular nomenclature distinguishes. 

14 minutes ago, Smithy said:

I jsut realized that I've never knowingly eaten a snail, unless you want to count conch. Even then, it was a restaurant's treatment and not mine. How does one cook those snails? Steam? Boil? Bake? And how is the meat extracted from them? Some sort of pick, like a crabmeat pick?

The snails are usually stewed and, here, very spicy. You could use a crabmeat pick, but toothpicks are more commonly used. Most restaurants have toothpick dispensers on each table.

Conches and snails are technically larger sea snails, although popular nomenclature distinguishes.