Bamboo shoots should be peeled to the point where you can see the flesh inside is relatively white, the root of the skin is a little green, with a hand pinch can be pinched into it.

In the countryside, bamboo shoots can be divided into two kinds, one is the larger bamboo shoots, that is, the kind of bamboo usually planted by the river. For that kind of bamboo, it is generally in it emerges from the soil about 20 to 30 centimeters high, the root has 15 to 20 centimeters to pull, so the bamboo shoots are more delicious, and then grow up to 50 to 60 centimeters, then it will appear to bamboo shoots are very good to eat the texture is very poor, as if chewing on grass.

For such a bamboo, we are generally the first to peel its skin from the outside network, from top to bottom. One layer at a time, until the innermost layer is almost two-thirds of the way up the bamboo shoot. If you peel too little, it will look like a good part of it when you cook it, and if you peel too much, it will look like a huge waste of bamboo shoots. Therefore, peeled to two-thirds of the bamboo shoots, enough to see the flesh inside the white, the skin of the root of a little green, with a hand pinch to pinch in can be enough.

There is another kind of small bamboo shoots, this kind of bamboo shoots grow into a bamboo, usually used to make a big broom with, specializing in sweeping rice and other purposes. This type of bamboo shoots relative to the big kind of bamboo, it seems very good peeling, just use a knife in the top of its cut a mouth, and then use the finger directly a volume of the rest can be, roughly just to the tender bamboo shoots at the flesh.