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Kachin sour bamboo shoots (mahkri sum, buried shoots)

Kachin households sour bamboo shoots by burying them in the ground without air and digging them up months later. The only record found is a Jinghpaw-language oral recording in the PARADISEC archive, so the timing below is unconfirmed.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Kachin sour bamboo shoots itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Mesu, the closest documented vegetables ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Kachin sour bamboo shoots.

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Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedWhat goes in. No source gives amounts for this ferment.
bamboo shoots

Total time across the steps of Mesu: 7 days – 15 days

Start
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What changes: The sheaths come off and the young bamboo shoots are chopped

Step 1 of 4 · steps of Mesu
Strip the sheaths and chop the shoots
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Pediococcus pentosaceus
L. brevis
L. plantarum

Output: chopped raw shoot.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Kachin households sour bamboo shoots by burying them in the ground without air and digging them up months later. The only record found is a Jinghpaw-language oral recording in the PARADISEC archive, so the timing below is unconfirmed.

What makes this one different

Unlike mesu, which is packed into a green bamboo tube, the Kachin shoots are buried directly in a pit in the ground.

Related ferments

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [s1] PARADISEC collection KK2 (Kachin culture and history told in Jinghpaw, Kurabe collection), item KK2-0161 'Mahkri sum jap htu (Pickled bamboo sprout jap htu)', an untranslated Jinghpaw recording. Not opened by us (the catalogue returns HTTP 403); its existence and title were confirmed by the round-3 accuracy auditother