For the first time in nearly 120 years, "hachiku" bamboo is flowering all across Japan. The hachiku bamboo ... creates clones of itself by sending up shoots from these stems.
Among Japan's many "sansai" seasonal edible vegetables that grow in the wild, bamboo shoots are the most difficult to harvest. "They are greatly loved not only by us humans, but by Asian black ...
Rhizomes grow horizontally below the surface of the soil at a depth of tens of centimeters. Every year, bamboo shoots emerge from the underground rhizomes and then grow to form new culms. Although a ...
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.
Popular dishes include stir-fried mushrooms and bamboo shoots, pork and bamboo shoots and ramen (a Japanese noodle dish). "I really like bamboo shoots and have them a lot with ramen," sais Leslie ...
Xiang Xiang enjoys eating bamboo shoots. Xiang Xiang's new home is at ... and notes her birthplace as Japan. Zookeeper Zhao Lanlan is in charge of Xiang Xiang's care. She said it took the Japan ...