Oyster

Oysters are molluscs similar to the real-life tiger.

Culture

Seafood available at White Harbor includes oysters.

History

Much of Braavos's early wealth came from the brackish waters of the great lagoon, which yielded many sorts of fish, including oysters.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Cersei and Tyrion Lannister have roast swan stuffed with mushrooms and oysters during a meal at the Red Keep.

A Feast for Crows

In Braavos, Arya Stark, disguised as the Braavosi fishmonger Cat of the Canals, sells her oysters on the decks of many ships that have made port in Ragman's Harbor, including Ibbenese ships, and whenever Cat passes by the Happy Port, Meralyn buys a dozen oysters from her, and then shares them with her girls. She begins to sell oysters for the Braavosi fishmonger Brusco, who makes it plain to Cat that while selling her oysters, clams, and cockles, she is never to speak to a courtesan unless spoken to first. When the Sailor's Wife marries, she insists that her new husband buy oysters from Cat's barrow.

Arya Stark enjoys feeding the cats of the city by throwing an oyster at them to see who comes away with it.

A Dance with Dragons

While passing through the Long Bridge of Volantis, Tyrion Lannister spots fishwives selling eels and oysters.

Quotes

Cats liked the smell of Cat. Some days she would have a dozen trailing after her before the sun went down. From time to time the girl would throw an oyster at them and watch to see who came away with it. The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.

—thoughts of Arya Stark

Ramsay: Lord Pig must have brought half the food in White Harbor with him.
Roose: Forty wayns full of foodstuffs. Casks of wine and hippocras, barrels of fresh-caught lampreys, a herd of goats, a hundred pigs, crates of crabs and oysters, a monstrous codfish ... Lord Wyman likes to eat. You may have noticed.

—Ramsay Bolton and Roose Bolton