In their hats, worn-looking versions of the one we have seen, they look like wheeling, spooling, marching straw mushrooms.

We began with tom-yum soup, which boasted an abundance of shrimp, straw mushrooms, baby corn, scallions and lemon grass.

Menu highlights include spicy bean-thread noodles with crab meat, straw mushrooms and herbs.

The chicken is juicy, the coating crisp and the baby corn, peppers and straw mushrooms worthy complements.

A typical sotanghon is made with calamansi, sliced straw mushrooms, slivered dark-meat chicken and green onion.

In the modern popularized versions the soup contains also mushrooms - usually straw mushrooms or oyster mushrooms.

Marinated lamb was sauteed with straw mushrooms, bamboo shoots, snow pea pods and green garlic.

The most common version includes vegetables such as Chinese kailan and straw mushrooms.

Shaped like straw mushrooms, they are completely clear except for a gossamer veil which makes up their body.

And he has weaned the Chinatown chefs from their usual canned baby corn and straw mushrooms.