What compelled Sly Liao and his wife, Ly Lai, to spend $2.5 million to open Sea Pearl—a 240-seat restaurant with mother-of-pearl accents and live jazz on Friday nights—in Falls Church’s Merrifield ...

The pearl contained in the oyster is yours ... you are sure to spot the sign. Sea Shell City is open seasonally from April 1 through the third weekend in October. Hours: Spring and fall hours ...

Stefano Giovannini Chen claimed oyster companies will open the shell and strategically replace the original sea pearl with a mussel pearl on top, then glue it shut before selling it to customers ...

In nature, pearls form when a sand grain or other irritant gets into the shell of a mollusk, and the sea creature covers ... two shells and you can slightly open it and you can get in to see ...

A great irony of pearl history is that the ... with the same secretion it uses for shell-building, nacre. To culture freshwater mussels, workers slightly open their shells, cut small slits into ...

“This region is suited for pearl harvest because of the enclosed sea, which means the water ... A selection of oysters, their shells propped open slightly by blue plastic sticks called stoppers ...