Mushrooms

Hi, does anyone know where I can buy the following types of mushrooms inTaipei:
Chanterelle
Portobello

cheers

does Chanterelle grow in Taiwan? even if it does (high mountains?) i doubt it would be too popular here other than high end markets. it isnt cultivated and thus $$ to import. I am only assuming due to a massive mushroom market locally with cheap great quality shrooms, it wouldnt be a thing. may be wrong, and would be interested in finding out if you find it.

portabello are just button mushrooms matured releasing spores i think. googling the scienftific name (Agaricus bisporus) will show you lots of things you might already see here.

cheers, I googled and got this, which is what I most want, but have never seen here:

yes, i get that but what i mean is that those shitty button mushrooms:

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are the same thing, just an age and sometimes variety difference. So, I suppose what i am getting at is you could technically buy button mushrooms and allow them to mature into a portebello. would take some tweaking, but wouldnt be hard as mushrooms are simply a fruit to spread the spores, and they tend to do quite well in continuing growth after being cut, at least until they drop their spores and then start to die fast.

I suppose thats not the best of help, but if you really crave them, thats one way. If you have a restaurant or are wanting bulk, i bet you could easily talk to a producer into letting a few shelving units sit for another couple days before harvesting…

[quote=“Kea”]Hi, does anyone know where I can buy the following types of mushrooms inTaipei:
Chanterelle
Portobello[/quote]
I think I’ve seen dried Chanterelle at City Super, and maybe as well at Breeze Centre.

I’ve never knowingly seen portobello here, although I admit a few times giant shiitakes have made me look twice. (I’d love to get hold of them - my wife’s vegetarian, and there are tons of recipes out there that use portobellos as a meat replacement).

as far as mushrooms go, they are not difficult to grow.

didn’t think of dried, you can import dried mushrooms very easily. but they [dried] are often expensive in western countries.

I know Japan imports a LOT of wild mushrooms from places like Canada/USA. things like chanterelle (white and yellow, i used to pick them for that market back in canada), pine and morel. portebello i cannot honestly see being imported because of how easy they are to grow adn the cost of shipping and the hassles that entails.

lost in asia, im a veggie too and have found and LOVE lions mane. here the literal translation is “monkey head mushroom”, i cant type chinese but thats the 3 character translation. sounds like hoe toe goo. i swear it is the closest natural food to meat i have found, its like chicken, and even peels in strings. couple times a month i make a special trip to the city to have this in teh restaurant, really yummy. doesnt work as a hamburger patty type substitute, but does well as a chicken nugget substitute.

I wonder why not use large shitakii for portebello though? slightly tougher, but if you can get them fresh they are pretty good too, even as a mini burger patty. but i am no foodie, so i may have the reasons you guys want them way off.

Portobellos are available at Costco in the big refrigerated room. yummy on the bbq!

and then there’s morels…

gary999-great, I’ll check sometime soon.
PingDong, I’m sure if you were to grow them, there’d be a ready market.

Yup, common at Costco, including Neihu (with the other shrooms in the back right corner) and Xizhi (in or often outside of and on either side of the frig room).

Someone asked me about magic mushrooms and their legality a while back. I have no idea. Does anyone know?

I had heard they weren’t illegal, but difficult to come by.
The last time I had some–several years ago–me and Ho Chi Min were enjoying the really bright squid boat lights far off the beach at Kenting. :slight_smile:

illegal. call it a grey area, but if you end up in court you are as good as :banana:ed.

Hi,
Anyone know a button mushroom farm in northern taiwan?

try pnp foods. they might sell those mushrooms.

pnpfood.com