在粤东揭西县的宾馆酒家就餐,都可以尝到一种苦中带甘,美味可口的竹笋;在城镇的大街小巷,也随处可见小贩们浸泡在水桶里,精如手指,洁白似玉的这种竹笋。这种竹笋叫大洋苦笋,它味苦带甘,营养丰富,性凉而不寒,具有消食开胃,清热去腻的作用。高血压者常吃更有降压之功,其妙无穷。当地群众常把竹笋采下来,剥掉竹壳,放在锅里煮沸后,再放在冷水中浸泡几天(每天换水)即可用肉炆炒,也可熬汤。如果配上半肥肉(或猪脚)、咸菜熬煮,可使咸菜转青,肥而不腻,格外鲜美。难怪一些老华侨一回到乡梓就要找苦笋 In the eastern Guangdong Jiexi County hotel restaurant dining, you can taste a bitter with sweet, delicious bamboo shoots; in the streets of the town, but also everywhere hawkers immersed in the bucket, fine as a finger, white like Jade this kind of bamboo shoots. This bamboo shoots called the ocean bitter bamboo shoots, it is bitter with sweet, nutritious, cool and cold, with digestion and appetizers, heat to greasy role. High blood pressure often eat more antihypertensive power, its wonderful infinite. Local people often take down the bamboo shoots, peeled bamboo shell, boiled in the pot, and then soaked in cold water for a few days (water change) can be fried with meat stir-fried, but also boil soup. If accompanied by semi-fat (or pig’s feet), pickles boiled, pickles turn green, fat and not greasy, especially delicious. No wonder some old overseas Chinese come back hometown Azusa will find bamboo shoots