@maverickfoo....Your posts are always enticing and interesting. I love the way you made use of food to explain something meaningful. I will adopt a point which will set a great lesson to every one of us. From the part

"Can you spit that out please?"

The girl, probably no more than ten, was curious at the request. She did as my Master said, despite her seeing the relevancy. She spat the half-chewed abalone onto her plate.

"Good, young girl. Now, can you put it back in your mouth and continue eating?"

"Eeeeew! That's gross! I'm not going to do that! Yuck!"

My Master nodded and smiled.

"Oh, is it? Funnily just a few moments ago, you were fighting over the dish. And you even hurriedly put them in your mouth. Yet, now, after spitting the same food out, even as it's covered in your own saliva, you don't find its edible anymore?"

Lesson learnt:We observed that after the lady grinded the delicious meal with her teeth and soften it with the water produced from her tongue , she was told to pour to the plate and eat again which looks irritating to the lady and I also believe none of us will love to eat that again.

The fact is that "the delicious meal are your loved ones (family and friends). They look delicious because you love them. The question is are you really ready to love them again as you loved them before? That's why the question arose from the master saying your delicious food isn't edible again?

In life, we have to love sincerely. Let us forget what has happened between our loved ones in the past. Let's focus on the present and big the best out of them after their downfall. I hope we all learn from this.