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Tucked into the weekly Bixby Park Farmers Market on Saturdays sits an adorable truck, tucked under a bright orange umbrella, with “Loquat Oysters” proudly displayed on its side. And oysters, indeed, you will find. Beausoleils topped with caviar. Watch House Points grilled with bone marrow. Penn Coves squeezed with lemon before being topped off with a prohok-inspired mignonette—a Washington bivalve gone Cambodian.

And for owners and Long Beach locals, Lucky and Liz Huon? It might just be a weekend-meets-popup gig for the couple while they maintain full-time jobs during the week, sure. But if passion—mixed with the right tinge of talent, of course—proves anything, it is that you can create some of the finest things in your community. And in the case of Loquat Oysters, it is the fact that they are Long Beach’s best oysters.

If this alone doesn’t make you smile in the slightest, surely the story behind it will. Romantic. Ambition-filled. A highlight of our Asian communities. And purely Long Beach.

“We ate a ridiculous amount of oysters, drank a ridiculous amount of hurricanes. And we were like, ‘Hey, we could do this.’”

These are the words of Liz, relaying her and Lucky’s first trip to the great city of New Orleans. And much like the romanticism of NOLA itself—rich history, the constant cacophony of live music and conversation, one of the country’s richest culinary cities…—what started as a birthday indulgence turned into a date night tradition.

Written and photos by Brian Addison.

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