Digging Up Bamboo Shoots. And Then Eating Them.
Published: January 01, 0001
Reading Time: Approx. 8 mins
This week is Golden Week in Japan—a series of holidays. Because it’s Golden Week, Japanese game news has pretty much come to a halt. The entire country is on vacation. Earlier this week, rummy nobel I had a day off. And I spent the morning rummy royal digging up bamboo shoots, or as they’re called in Japanese, takenoko.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); (I’m not sure what they’re called in other Asian languages—sorry! I *believe* the bamboo that grows in Japan is the same variety that grows in China, but I’m not sure.) In this clearing, my kids and I dug out the sprouts shooting a few inches above the ground. I used a shovel and a hatchet type tool to dig them out. That ended up being the entire morning. It was good fun.
This land is owned by a friend of 
a friend, who basically wanted us to help 
him clear it so it wasn’t overgrown with bamboo. Then when we got home, Yono all app 
we cleaned them off and boiled them. Then, we made rice with bamboo shoots. Delicious. Postcard is a regular peek behind the Kotaku East curtain, whether that be game-related or, most likely, not.