Bamboo

Did the foochows also bring their own Foochow bamboo to plant in Sarawak?

When my paternal grandfather told us stories about his trip to Sarawak, he told us that he had seeds in his cotton bag and some cuttings or twigs. But he did not say much or elaborate much because he was a very quiet ma. Did he bring cuttings of bamboo?

But eventually, every where he built a family home he would have at least two groves of bamboo growing. Thus we always had good bamboo shoots to eat when he was still alive. He made sure that he grew good bamboo.

I was able to visit our ancestral home in Wun Chieh, Minqing to meet my cousins. It was then I realised that for generations my family actually grew bamboo and sold bamboo shoots in different forms. Wun Chieh is a land full of different kinds of bamboo.