During the my recent trip back to KK, I went to the 'Philippino market' with my gang to get some souvenirs. Out of the many many stalls, I came across one that sells seahorses - both male and female.
I thought it's pretty cool to give it to people as a souvenir so I bought 2 (I only bought male seahorses, female are ugly... hehe).
While I was paying, the lady at the stall gave me a funny look. Bf was busy taking pictures, so he probably didn't notice but I was wondering why she looked at me like that.
When I came back to KL, my housemate told me that people there actually eat dried seahorses! (YUCKS!) Anyway, out of curiousity, I decided to search on the net why people do that.
The result is this - Seahorses are used as traditional medicine to treat impotence! In other words, SEAHORSE = DEEP SEA VIAGRA. No wonder that girl looked at me and bf strangely lah!
Anyway, I gave out one seahorse already. Still got one more. Shall keep it for now (if any of you 'need' it for emergency, call 1800-SEAHORSEMAMA-888). =)
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