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The breach of the Mataian River barrier lake last year flooded Hualien’s Guangfu Township, inundating farmland. But there’s good news: It’s now harvest season for the area’s famous arrowhead bamboo shoots, and the quality is better than ever. Not only that, but market prices are higher this year at NT$400 to NT$500 per 600 grams, and farmers are predicting a more plentiful harvest. The local farmers’ association is planning events to promote the crop, and is calling on the public to support farmers hit by the disaster.

Fresh arrowhead bamboo shoots give this pork rib soup a richly enticing aroma.

Chiu Li-na
Chef
The arrowhead bamboo gives it a lightness, different from other types of bamboo shoots. If you want a classic flavor, the locals here love to make a soup with siraw, or pickled pork, and arrowhead bamboo.

But harvesting the delicate shoots isn’t easy.

Farmers have to climb on slippery mountain slopes to search among the dense bamboo grove for newly emerged shoots. Hualien farmers were hit hard by last September’s flood. Guangfu has 200 hectares of arrowhead bamboo groves that are ready for harvest every March and April. Abundant rainfall this year has not only encouraged growth, but has also enhanced their quality.

Chang Ming-fa
Local farmers’ association director
Many of the flood-afflicted areas and farmers who grow arrowhead bamboo are along the Seaboard Mountain Range. Disasters since the flood on Sept. 23 haven’t impacted arrowhead bamboo.

The local farmers’ association has developed new recipes that use arrowhead bamboo shoots, and is to host a banquet featuring the crop in the hopes of boosting consumption and generating more value for Guangfu agriculture.

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