Officially Overwhelmed

So I thought I had seen it all.
We were recommended to go to a seafood restaurant in Hong Kong, "down by the fish market." Apparently you pick out your dinner from the tank while they're still swimming around. Yeah, right! So we show up in this area by the harbor and after walking down a few alleys, we start to see a lot of people wearing rubber boots. Like... fishermen... Somehow we found this place. Sat down, told them what we wanted, and they the waitress said, "OK, go across they way and pick your fish." OK...
I recognized most of the things over there, but other things seemed wild. Like what looked like a mussel whose digger thing/whatever was as big as my wrist. Or the crab whose body was somewhere between the size of a softball and a volleyball. Thank God I did not come across one of these monsters snorkeling. Yow!
We ended up with fish (steamed in spices, shallots, and soy sauce), scallops, crabs (no monsters), and shrimp. You could also order "vegetables": rice, noodles, or fried bok choi. I have never seen oysters like we had - breaded and deep fried. Now I have had fried oysters in New Orleans and Houston. Probably lucky if you get an oyster the size between a quarter and half dollar. I think thes oysters were about the size fo a pingpong ball to start with, so with the bread, bigger than a golf ball but smaller than a baseball. My friend Taki took home some of the left over crab and oysters. I said to him, "Holy Sh*t! You're having that for breakfast?!" He said, "Yeah, man, this stuff is great!"