In article >,
Frederick Burroughs > wrote:

> Katra wrote:
>
> >
> > Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>It seemed kinda like you thought they were some exotic
> >>thing because they said "fungus", but if they'd been called
> >>"dried mushrooms" you wouldn't have been so excited.
> >>
> >
> > <lol> No, I KNEW that they were a dried mushroom/fungus, just not one I
> > was familiar with on the usual store bought edibles... Sometimes the
> > orientals will not call something by the same name that we do!
> >
>
> My mom was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. She refers to
> almost all mushrooms generically as "fungus." She's not at all
> concerned about learning the names of different fungi. She just knows
> by sight which ones go better in a particular dish.

Whatever works...
I'm going to have to taste these by themselves as well as trying some of
the many recipes I've been offered, and the ones I found on line.
I'm wondering how they would go with Miso.
Been too busy to try them yet.

K.