The bamboo shoots cooked in delicate dashi-soup. Lightly blanched and then cooled down for peeling off the skin. Beautiful fresh green appears. Stewed in dashi-soup with fresh Japanese pepper leaves. Another way of cooking is just simply g…

Chishima bamboo is very popular spring food of local folks, and .....bears. Crawling in the ocean of bamboo is tough exercise. Our rucksack became awfully heavy filled with the bamboo shoots. Hope our hard work will be paid off by the gues…