Rural Doc's Urban Getaway

Today I return home after several days in San Francisco, visiting my mother.

What do I like to do when I'm in the Big City? Eat, of course. And I like to get a healthy dose of ethnic wonderment, especially in the Chinese grocery stores, where you can buy exotic fungi and edible shoots:

Dried black fungus, which is not only good to eat in soups and stirfry, but also thought to be medicinal:

And ready-to-cook bamboo shoots, available in bulk in the refrigerated section:

I've eaten my salty fill of ethnic flavors. Now I'm on my way back to Rural, which is salty in...different ways.

Comments

[Peggikaye]

welcome home, and back to your own role as mother hen. ;o)