Removing the husk of the fresh bamboo shoot is much harder to describe than to do. Please don’t use canned bamboo shoot for this (or any) dish – it has an odd flavour, and the texture isn’t ...

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.

However, it is important to note that fresh bamboo shoots contain toxic amounts of cyanide taxiphyllin, which can be greatly reduced through proper cooking methods, ensuring their safe consumption ...

Peeled fresh bamboo shoots are often available in the frozen vegetable section of Asian supermarkets. Fresh peeled water chestnuts are often available in the fresh vegetable section of Asian ...

We learn how to make seasonal soup for spring and citrus umami udon. 1. Cut the top half of the fresh bamboo shoots along the grain, and the bottom half, against the grain. 2. Cut the wakame ...

Rona Kiura, 24, is on a mission to change this. “Asian countries like China and Taiwan widely use bamboo shoots as vegetables, so I wanted to bring this to Kenya,” she says. She uses shoots ...

A panda's daily diet consists almost entirely of the leaves, stems and shoots of various bamboo species. Bamboo contains very little nutritional value so pandas must eat 12-38kg every day to meet ...