According to the locals, after the heavy rains in the early season, the next morning it is sunny, then the mushrooms in the forest are sprouting up. And just waiting like that, local people rushed to the forest to collect mushrooms to improve their meals and to earn income because the mushrooms here are very high, ranging from 700,000 VND to over 1 million VND / kg depending on according to each type of mushroom.
Following Mr. Huan to hunt forest mushrooms in Da Lat.
Following Nguyen Quoc Huan (47 years old, living in Da Lat City), who has more than 35 years of experience picking mushrooms, we wandered dozens of kilometers on pine forests to hunt for specialty mushrooms. “The pine forest mushrooms are delicious. It's enough to forget it's full ”, Mr. Huan compared.
Mr. Huan's joy when he discovered that the delicious mushroom pear has just sprouted up.
In pine forests in Da Lat City ( Lam Dong ), there are hundreds of types of mushrooms. Each type has different characteristics, external colors. Therefore, to get forest mushrooms for processing, the people who go to the forest must have certain experience and understanding about mushrooms.
According to Mr. Huan, he started collecting wild mushrooms since 1986. At the moment he is just over 10 years old. He often followed his father to the forest to look for firewood and collect mushrooms. At that time, he only showed his father how to identify 3 types of mushrooms. Now, after 35 years of picking wild mushrooms, he can identify hundreds of mushrooms.
“I have a hobby that few people might be fond of hunting mushrooms in the forest. There are times when so greedy mushrooms, engrossed in the forest to the evening do not want to go. Seeing mushrooms is just going, don't know to stop. Until I couldn't see the mushrooms anymore, I looked around and didn't know which hill I was in. However, because I have stayed here for a long time, I have never been lost ”- Mr. Huan shared.
This is a stone flower fungus, a forest mushroom in Da Lat very difficult to meet.
However, we were lucky enough to hunt for mushrooms this time when we saw a nest of stone flower mushrooms (a cluster of mushrooms growing close together). This mushroom is very fragrant, shaped like a coral. When cooked, it will be very sweet and chewy like chicken.
Liver mushrooms, a very common forest mushroom in pine forests in Da Lat.
Liver mushrooms are very special fungi, above the gray, below the yellow. When we lay on the crust beneath the wings of mushrooms immediately yellow will turn purple.
Chicken egg mushroom, a forest mushroom shaped like a chicken egg, is eaten very sweet and fat.
However, according to Mr. Huan, must be an experienced person to ensure that he does not pick poison mushrooms. Poisonous mushrooms often have showy colors. Mr. Huan said: “ Once I went to gather forest mushrooms, saw a huge nest of mushrooms. They look like milk mushrooms on the outside. But because I saw a lot of things, I tasted a bit, soon I felt the numbness in my tongue. I knew it was poisonous mushrooms so I spit it out right away. Later I found out this is a lime mushroom, quite poisonous ”.
According to Huan, the more beautiful the mushrooms are, the more colorful and the eye-catching appearance, the more they are poisonous. Therefore, for those who do not know absolutely should not pick about cooking, will cause poisoning, death.
A very large jackfruit mushroom.
According to the experience of the local people, if you want to know which mushrooms are poisonous, which are non-toxic and which are edible, you only need to put in brine with pickled chili. If then, the chili is exploded ie poisonous mushrooms. On the contrary, if nothing happens, it is an edible mushroom.
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