One of the easiest dishes to prepare in the evening after office hours in Sarawak is the quick stir fry of local mushrooms and sweet young corn. These are actually special variety of baby corn and are found in many local farms in most Asian countries. They are not grown in the Americas where the bigger version of the corn is grown for grain. Baby corns are very delicate and the cobs can be eaten.
Thus the sweet young corn is a special species of corn which is grown only for vegetables. It does not grow bigger to become the corn cob of 10 inches or more.
The sweet baby corns are found in the menus of most restaurants in Asia and they are used to make soups, stir fries and even to be cooked with beautiful sliced pork, beef or chicken. It is lovely when cooked in a Thai Tom Yam soup with chicken.
Baby corns are harvested the moment they have corn silk. And they don't grow any bigger. Baby corns are also canned and exported. The biggest grower of baby corns is Thailand at the moment.
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