You can often find fresh bamboo shoots in Asian food stores, but they’re not easy to prepare as they’re protected by many layers of overlapping, brown husk covered in fine, sharp hairs.

Bamboo shoots have a delicate flavour, so they pair well with other intense flavours, such as garlic, ginger, or soy sauce.

Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are the edible shoots (new bamboo culms that come out of the ground) of many bamboo species including Bambusa vulgaris and Phyllostachys edulis. They are used as ...

VOX POPULI: Risky business of foraging for bamboo shoots in wilds of Akita Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. May 15, 2021 at 13:20 JST ...