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Japan can be such a strange place at times. Take basic nourishment — in most parts of the world if you want some tasty mushrooms, you do as mankind has done since time immemorial and go to a supermarket, right? Not here — well, at least not in this Tokyo department store, where we realized we were going to have to grow our own.
If you can decipher the blurry pic (taken with an ultra-weak Sony Ericsson 802SE), then you’ll realize that these ‘shrooms are actually growing on chunks of log. The road to shiitake nirvana (and a good omelet or two) apparently lies through two weeks of watering, nurturing and occasional trimming.
Anyway, so attractive was the thought of mushrooms on demand, we caved in to the sales pitch and bought a log of our own. Stay tuned for breaking shiitake news. We’re such fungi-s, dontcha think?
Update: Due to popular demand (thank you Wazzer, whoever you are), we have a shiitake update. It’s your lucky day, fungus fans.
1. Our log didn’t exactly put out much. After almost a month (Dec. 15), three shiitake were all the feeble thing could manage. Seems those on display in the store (top picture, above) are pretty typical.
2. At least they were a decent size. So, to the chopping board.
3. And, 15 minutes later, we had a pretty tasty spaghetti sauce. So Japanese 
OK, it’s been fun, but enough with the mushrooms for now, all right?
PS We do know the dates on the comments are messed up and the same as the original post date, but these things really did take their time. Any MT experts out there wanna tell us what’s wrong with our code?
Author: Mark Hiratsuka
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