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The Lanna Eating Culture
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Straw mushrooms


 
            Volvariella Volvacea Fr.
 
            Agrocaceae
 
            Straw Mushroom
 
            Het bua (Kanchana Diwiset, et al., 2005, p. 245 )
 
            Tropical mushroom, grows on many media such as compost, humus soil and old straw at 40O C. for the spore to germinate. The young ones look like a small white ball with a grayish color at in the middle, 1-3 cm. in diameter. Cap hat-shaped, stalk 4-5cm. long, 1 cm. cylindrical, smooth, umbrella-like with a cup-like volva at the base; whitish brown. (Kanchana Diwiset, et al., 2005, p. 245 )
 
        
            No information on nutrition. As for food Tender straw mushrooms are used in many different dishes including tom, kaeng and yam. Lanna people use it to make a spicy salad called yam het fang with lap chili paste the same as making yam chin khai and yam kop. (Kanchana Diwiset, et al., 2005, p. 245 )
        
A cool sweet taste, used as a tonic, for healing bruises of the inner organs or liver damage. (Kanchana Diwiset, et al., 2005, p. 245 )
 
            All year round
 
            

Kanchana Diwiset, et al., comp. (2005). Phak Phuen Ban Phak Nuea. Phennapha Sapcharoen, ed. (2nd ed.). Bangkok: Center for the Development of Traditional Thai Medicine.