Oysters Steamed in the Half-Shell

When we lived in San francisco, every weekend, my hubby and I would frequent a mom-and-pop Chinese restaurant called The Eight Immortals on Taravel Street, which offers some of the most delicious Cantonese food at a very decent price. Whenever we dined in, the Steamed Oyster in the Half-Shell was the one dish I would always order—big, fat, luxuriously smooth oysters on the half shell steamed with ginger, green onion, and bathed in a savory soy sauce.

Now that we live in South