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Maitake is a perennial polypore mushroom native to the temperate zone of the Eurasian continent. It grows at the base of trees and fruits from late summer right into autumn. It has a mostly greyish appearance and grows in a cluster with many spoon-like caps with limited tubes. Maitake is entirely edible and a young fruit tastes tender than an older one.
You may have tried some of the edible fungi popular in Chinese cuisines, such as the Wood Ear (Mu’er 木耳) which I have written about here or the Silver Ear (Yin’er 银耳) which is an important ingredient in a popular Cantonese dessert. If you haven’t tried the Golden Ear (Jin’er 金耳), then you really should!
The ‘wood ear‘ is the name translated directly from Chinese ‘Mu’er 木耳‘ for a group of related edible fungus. Most commonly, this refers to the ‘black wood ear‘ – the Auricularia auricula-judae – which comes from its common English name,…
I came across this gem at my favourite mushroom seller Fred. A big fan of pleurotus mushrooms, commonly called ‘oyster mushrooms’, I was really curious when I first saw the pink oyster mushroom. The ‘Pleurotus djamor’ is smaller than its usual white and offwhite siblings, and it simply looks beautiful.
The ‘Hericium erinaceus’ is a large furry mushroom spread throughout the temperate northern hemisphere across the whole Eurasian continent from Britain to Japan. Its Latin name likens it to hedgehog, which explains its German and French name, while in English and Spanish, the mushroom was named after the king of the animal kingdom.
An important element in Vietnamese cuisine, in Singapore laksa leaves are primarily used in the spicy curry noodles soup called Laksa. For some strange reason, the herb is not used in Indonesian nor Thai cuisines.
Latin: Lycium ruthenicum Chinese: 黑果枸杞 English: Black Goji What are Black Goji Berries 黑枸杞? Grown high on the Tibetan plateau in western China, is a thorny flowering plant whose family is commonly known as the Russian box thorn in Europe….
Latin: Parmotrema perlatum English: Black stone flower, Kalpasi Sanskrit: Shaileyam Tamil: Kalpasi, Marapasi Malayalam: Adal Poove, Celeyam, Kalpuvu Kannada: Kalahu, Kaluhuva Marathi: Dagad Phool Hindi: Pathar ka phool, Dagad Phool Urdu: Riham karmani What is Kalpasi? Also known as ‘black…
Latin: Lactarius deliciosus English: Saffron milk cap, Red pine mushroom French: Lactaire délicieux Italian: Sanguinaccio (Calabria), Sanguinin (Liguria), Lardaru Sanguignu nel salento (Puglia), Rossella, Sanguinello, Pennenciole, Pennecciola, Pineggiola (Toscana), Sanguinoso (Umbria) Spanish: Mízcalo, Niscalo, Rebollón, Robellón Portuguese: Sancha, Tancha, Pinheira,…
Latin: Boesenbergia rotunda English: Fingerroot, Galingale, Tumicuni Cambodian: K’cheay ខ្ជាយ Thai: Krachai กระชาย Indonesian: Temu Kunci Vietnamese: Ngải Bún, Nga Truật Chinese: Aochunjiang 凹脣薑 Dutch: Temoe Koentjie What is Fingerroot? Fingerroot, Boesenbergia rotunda, belongs to the ginger family called Zingiberaceae….
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