Pre-sliced sour bamboo shoots 300g

SOUR BUONG BAMBOO SHOOTS – TOP OF KIM BOI PRODUCTS

There are hundreds of types of bamboo shoots in Vietnam and are used by Vietnamese people as daily food, in which there is a very special type of bamboo shoot closely associated with the life of the Muong ethnic group, which is the Buong bamboo shoot.

Buong trees are abundant in the Northwest region of Vietnam from Ba Vi mountain to Dien Bien, Lai Chau but are most concentrated in Kim Boi, Lac Son, Lac Thuy, Tan Lac districts of Hoa Binh province, where there are many Muong people live. The tree has a straight stem, no thorns, few branches, big leaves and is especially one of the few types of bamboo shoots for the largest tubers in the bamboo family. The tubers are quite round and thick and have a very delicious golden color when boiled. Fresh Buong bamboo shoots have a sweet, aromatic and very firm taste, so it is very delicious when using sliced bamboo shoots to cook, and it is also convenient to process into vegetarian products to imitate beef and pork. Large pieces of dried bamboo shoots, called dried pig tongue bamboo shoots, specialize in cooking for parties or celebrating Tet in many families in Vietnam.

Buong bamboo shoots cooked when fresh or dried are delicious, but especially delicious when making sour bamboo shoots. Sour bamboo shoots are the best because of their firm, sweet, aromatic characteristics and large, bright yellow-white tubers. Many ethnic groups such as Thai, Dao, Tay, Kinh, Muong all make sour bamboo shoots from some tubers such as “Bamboo”, “Hoc”, Bat Do”, “Luong”, “Buong”… but the way of making sour bamboo shoots of Muong people with yellow Buong bamboo shoots is literally “the top of the top”. In the middle of the sour bamboo shoot season (August lunar year every year), when the bamboo shoots reach their best and greatest, the Muong people start making sour bamboo shoots. If it's simple, people just need to wash, chop and put it in a crock pot or glass to have popular sour bamboo shoots eaten all year round or sold at the roadside, market corner… Muong people for hundreds of years have known how to not ferment too much – causing great acidity, bamboo shoots will be soft and not delicious – by washing bamboo shoots with spring water (Soft water – no calcium ions which make bad colors), dipping the jar of sour bamboo shoots into a stream near the house, keep bamboo shoots always at a low temperature below 20^oC and away from sunlight. After a few months of taking it up, we have a jar of white bright yellow bamboo shoots, fragrant and crispy, sweet and sour, wonderfully sweet.

To be able to bring that traditional cuisine to a large number of consumers everywhere, from home to abroad, Kim Boi Joint Stock Company relies on the Muong people's cooling principle to produce sour bamboo shoots. Sour sliced bamboo shoots are produced according to a closed process. From the process of planting and caring to ensure that no chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation regimes are used, moisture should be maintained. In the time when bamboo shoots reach a size of 30-40 cm, bamboo shoots give the best quality in terms of taste and nutrient content. Bamboo shoots will be harvested, peeled, washed, sliced ​​and fermented. On an industrial scale, sour bamboo shoots are stored at a temperature below 24 degrees, surrounded by water to keep the yeast suitable, and the finished product is sour, crispy, sweet and delicious bamboo shoots. “Sour sliced bamboo shoots” of Kim Boi Joint Stock Company absolutely do not use any chemicals, even in preservation. The outstanding feature of Sour sliced bamboo shoots is that there is no odor dispersion, and the acidity is stable. Leaving in a closed space or on the shelf of a supermarket or at home, there is no smell that no other sour bamboo shoot product can do…

Sour sliced bamboo shoots are fermented foods, providing fiber, Vitamins A, C, E, B…. Supports the digestive system and cleans the intestines for users, helping to prevent the risk of obesity, strong atherosclerosis and high blood pressure. Slices of sour bamboo shoots are particular with milky white, tough, crispy and sweet, completely different from any other bamboo shoots on the market. It can be used in daily meals with different dishes such as sour bamboo shoots soup with fish, sour bamboo shoots soup with chicken, sour bamboo shoots soup with pork bones, and sour bamboo shoots soup with seafood …… very suitable to eat to cool in hot weather. The sliced sour bamboo shoots are so clean that just by adding a little sugar, roasted peanuts, fresh chili, and herbs, we can have the famous bamboo shoot salad without spending much time and effort.

 Kim Boi Joint Stock Company has used modern technologies to overcome all limitations of the traditional pickled bamboo shoot production method and create a product of the intersection of the past and the present, of the full taste, complete and convenient. With these special utilities, the Sour sliced bamboo shoots of Kim Boi Joint Stock Company have been granted ISO 22000:2018 certificate; Gold medal and title of safe quality food for public health; Certificate of typical rural industrial products of Hoa Binh province 2020-2023, Certificate of high quality Vietnamese goods for 5 consecutive years from 2018 to 2022. Product has met the strict requirements to be present in major supermarket chains in the country such as Big C, Lotte, AEON, Winmart…. and qualified for export, so it has been present in the Japan, Germany, Czech, Netherlands, …markets.

Sour sliced bamboo shoots are the creation’s result and merit of the Muong people for hundreds of years. Kim Boi Joint Stock Company is proud to have inherited and created goods to be sent throughout Vietnam and the world while preserving for future generations a precious traditional product and contributing to promoting Vietnamese cuisine with friends from all over the world.