You can often find fresh bamboo shoots in Asian food stores, but they’re not easy to prepare as they’re protected by many layers of overlapping, brown husk covered in fine, sharp hairs.

Bamboo adds aesthetic beauty to wherever they are grown and are also a sustainable food source. To grow bamboo, it is most ...

KITA-KYUSHU, Fukuoka Prefecture--Spring in Japan is not limited to enjoying sakura--it’s the perfect time to enjoy the taste of the season, “takenoko,” or bamboo shoots. Takenoko are being ...

Bamboo shoots reach their peak of flavor for a scant ten days a year. 01:01 For this brief culinary pleasure, a family has maintained a bamboo grove for many years. Owing to its bamboo grove ...

A panda's daily diet consists almost entirely of the leaves, stems and shoots of various bamboo species. Bamboo contains very little nutritional value so pandas must eat 12-38kg every day to meet ...