If your only experience with bamboo shoots is finding pale yellow thin slices of canned bamboo shoots in your favorite Chinese dishes, fresh bamboo shoots will be a revelation. Sweet and slightly ...

Join Thanh in the mountainous northern province of Vietnam as he harvests big bamboo shoots at the end of the season for sale at the market. This video highlights life off the grid while he continues ...

Bamboo is one of my favorite kitchen garden plants. It has few disease or pest problems, is easy to grow and is very valuable in the kitchen. Add to this its versatility as a landscape plant and as ...

Bamboo shoots are magical things -- the promise of magnificent bamboo culms to come, as well as an exotic, versatile and flavorful food. Shoots are produced by most bamboos in spring and by a few ...

I marinated some of the shoots according to a basic recipe in a book about growing bamboo. I found these were great to add to salads and to plop on crackers for a snack. Fresh bamboo shoots may be ...

This article by Htet Wai is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Bamboo shoots are a popular dish in ...

When someone mentions bamboo, what pops into your mind? Do you think of some impenetrable tropical jungle and the constant buzz of mosquitoes? Or maybe your bamboo kitchen utensils or flooring?

Residents in Dengjiagou village of Nanbu county, Sichuan province, harvest bamboo shoots specifically planted to meet the dietary needs of giant pandas. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The ...