Nothing but a soup of fresh surf clams could whet his appetite, but in Beijing there were no clams to go with his wine, nor yet the oysters of his homeland.
但是「水斷車螯味，廚空牡蠣房」，如今到了北京，別說弄不到蛤蜊作下酒菜，也好久未嚐到車螯，更別提老家的牡蠣了。