There are many kinds of bamboo shoots in Sarawak.
The best is called Betong which is sweet and big in size. The Foochows first planted this bamboo to delineate their land from their neighbours. The bamboo was planted on the raised bunds after the pioneers had dug their trenches.
Thus in my maternal grandparents' village, In just a few years after 1902, their bamboos started to give bamboo shoots for food and the bamboos were cut for building materials. Fences were often made from bamboo. And chairs and baskets were also made from bamboo.
But bamboo shoots became such an important source of food for every one.
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Thanks for writing this. Muk Dong or 木冬 sound used to call it by Foochows is really a type of bamboo everyone will not forget. Once I asked my Malay friend a GB and she told me unless your bamboo shoots is something that is sweet not like the local here bitter and "siap" d... she said.. I ever ate that before from Cina in Limbang while teaching there.
hahah... I told her where and how come you know so well. That was her answer lol.
I hope I can plant a muk dong in my yard...
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