My daughter Deb and the mud snails.

I have left Borneo for almost 40 years, and when I manage to get a trip home, I like my sister to prepare this mud snail aka Los for me.

My sister Elizabeth cooked these mud snails for me, and they remembered the time, my daughter Deb came to visit.

Susan Suan

I borrow my facebook friend's photo because it shows better how the snails aka Los look like. To cook them, you have to chop off the end, and you suck the front bit. Some times if the morsel of snail doesn't come out, you suck the end gently, and then it will dislodge the snail, and you suck the front.

In Singapore, some call them the kissing snail, as you make the chutch chutch sound and the kissy action when you eat them.. 

• Ann Chin This is the photo for one of my stories. Big 

  
  

  daughter who just returned from Mexico's favourite story. 

  
  

  We went to Bintangnor where my brother in law Kallang 

  
  

  was a principal. The house was dark. They bought lots of 

  
  

  local food, and there was so much that they didn't cook 

  
  

  the LOs. Someone forgot to put a cover on the bucket of 

  
  

  the Los. 

  
  

  he next morning, the Los were all over the small dark 

  
  

  kitchen. My daughter remembers finding the Los. Kallang 

  
  

  and Elizabeth remembered it too.

  
  

  
  

  Whenever I see Los on my visits home, I remember this 

  
  

  story. 

  
  

  Would be fantastic of I can use it in my welcome home 

  
  

  story.

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  Law Vun Ngee Hahaha...... Ann. During my childhood 

  
  

  years, which was much the same as everyone else in 

  
  

  Sarawak at that time, we would eat anything that we 

  
  

  could laid our hands on. l had eaten thousands of these 

  
  

  mud snails (?). The children had problem in removing 

  
  

  the soft head covers of this slimy creatures getting 

  
  

  stuck to the roofs of their mouths. We also had flat 

  
  

  races and wall climbing competitions for these 

  
  

  creatures.