Beautiful Bamboo...

Good food is all about fresh ingredients. This is not the same bamboo shoots that you get at a chinese restaurant here in the states. Seeing something like this makes me want to cook!!! It be interesting to see an Iron Chef show with this as the main ingredient. Bamboo shoots are not to be eaten raw. It has a bitter taste and can be hard to digest. This picture is from a market in Kyoto. That part of Japan loves its mountain vegetables.