Help! I got some of this at an Asian market just because it looked
interesting and different, thinking I'd find *something* on how to prepare
it in my cookbooks or at least on the web. But nada, zip, nothing.

They are small bulbs or tubers, maybe 1.5 inches (~4 cm) across, with a bit
of a shoot opposite the root end. A little bit like a water chestnut, but
without a real 'shell' and not as crisp inside (I cut one open).

I'm a bit hampered in searching because dang Arrowhead Mills keeps popping
up in any search in food groups or with food terms, but the only reference I
found was

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/manual...20Vegetable%20
Guide.pdf
[you may have to cut and paste to get the whole url. Or try the following:
http://tinyurl.com/yu84n
no guarantees on that since it's my first try at tinyurl]

which has pictures (not exactly what I've got, but close enough; mine are a
bit flatter root to stem), and even the Chinese characters (and which is
where I got the Cantonese and Mandarin names).

I'm not looking for full blown recipes, but some idea of what to do with
it -- I don't know whether to boil it, bake it or ask it to marry me!

[And my apologies if this is double posted. I got some error the first time
from trying to crosspost to another group, and it hadn't showed up here
after a reasonable time.]