We had Bunapi Shimeji Mushroom with our lunch today.  SiewPeng fried them with broccoli.  When I put this mushroom in my mouth, it felt like a spring jumping inside my mouth.  It was smooth, elastic and crispy.

This is the first time we bought it from a hypermarket.  The first thing that came to my mind when I saw it was - I wanted to take its photo, it looks cute.  We decided to buy it although it is expensive compared to the other type of mushroom that we usually buy.  Later SiewPeng worried on how to cook it and have done some research on the Internet.

As I have just learned about this mushroom, there are many types of Shimeji Mushroom.  Bunapi Shimeji mushroom is also know as Japanese white beech mushroom.  The other type is called Buna Shimeji which is the brown beech.

View from the top, - the Shimeji mushrooms’ caps look like the enlarged molecules that we have learned in chemistry.

View from low angle, - I like to see the lines underneath the mushroom cap.

The bottom part of the Shimeji, - I wonder if each of the mushroom stem is grown from a big main trunk.

-  Taken with flash.

-  Taken with my light-box’s lamp.

This is the making of the series of photos above.  I used an energy saving bulb as the light source.

I like its taste and the smooth feeling in my mouth.  We are going to buy it again.  :D