Eating see ham

for those of you who are not hokkien, see ham is cockels after all the mouth watering posting on sotong & ketam, i had cockels in my char kuey teow. it's been a while since i had them, - worried about getting hepatitis !
they tasted delicious and brought to mind the good old days when we ( my family and i ) had cockels by the dulang ( didn't need to worry about hepatitis then ). we would rinse them after buying them from the pasar and pour hot water over the whole lot. everyone would then grab a choice spot around the 'dulang', brave the hot vapour and with a small plate of chili waited for the hot boiled cockels to cool a bit.
as soon as someone was brave enough to put their hand in and grab a cockel out, the feast started ! it's ever person for him/herself.
now that's the way to eat cockels.