The common way to eat dried bamboo shoots is to burn meat. In fact, dried bamboo shoots can be eaten with various dishes, such as grilled fish, stewed chicken and hot pot. Here are two recipes.

1. Stir-fried shredded bamboo shoots with vegetarian dishes: Heat cooking oil in a pot, add expanded shredded bamboo shoots and stir-fry for 30 seconds, add salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and water and cook for 3 minutes.

2. Seafood pot with dried bamboo shoots: add dried squid, dried fish or scallops to the expanded dried bamboo shoots, add salt, monosodium glutamate and water and stew until cooked.

Eating dried bamboo shoots often can relieve constipation, stimulate appetite and lose weight. The quality of dried bamboo shoots without sulfur fumigation in northern Fujian is better. Mildew dried bamboo shoots will be mushy when swollen. If soaked for 3- 10 days, the more soaked, the brighter. Jianmin store in Nanbingying Food Street sells dried bamboo shoots with good quality and low price.