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Slideshow: Behind the Dried Bamboo Curtain

Dried bamboo shoots (笋干) are a popular specialty food product manufactured by hand in Yong’an (永安), Fujian in a back-breaking process few Chinese consumers of the snack appreciate. One photographer recently went to a bamboo mountain in Fujian last spring to document how the snack is made, via fengniao.com:

• Posted by Sophia Cao
• March 2, 2008 2:44 PM
• Category: Culture, Society
• Tags: agriculture, food, Fujian, slideshow

Origin: , fengniao

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