Unusual food from Thailand

[Thetyim]

Take a look at this picture

This will be my dinner tomorrow

Does anyone know what it is ?

[NathairCeann]

^ Is it moving ?

[friscofrankie]

Animal vegetable or mineral?

[Thetyim]

vegetable

Well it grows

[Wayne Kerr]

Could it be of the orchid family Nofuckideania? Looks a lot like it.

[Sparky]

I'd go for a simple cheese sarnie instead !

[friscofrankie]

vegetable
Well it grows

Have you tried smoking it?

[Marmite the Dog]

Looks like a bunch of stamens.

[Thetyim]

It's a mushroom

In thai it is called Hed Kaar, no idea what it is called in English.
It only grows in one place- under a mai ma-kaar tree.
I think it must be quite scarce now because those trees are hard to find.
So has anyone else ever seen it ?

It is only available this time of the year and is one of my favourites and has a superb full mushroom flavour.
The MiL picked this lot today as well

[Marmite the Dog]

^ Can you take some to Chiang Mai next weekend? You are still going, right? You did promise Noony.

[Thetyim]

You are still going, right? You did promise Noony.

What? Where? Know nothing about it
Promise Nooners what ?

[Marmite the Dog]

^ You'd better ask him, but you're well overdue a weekend in CM with the boys...

[blackgang]

If he eats them home picked shrooms he might already be in the oven at the WAT by that time MTD.
Some of them in the last pic look like them poison bastards that grew around my cabin in the Rockie mountains, no deer, squirrels or bears would touch em, even tho they was beautiful, so I waited and took a couple to town, and was told them is a NO NO.

[Thetyim]

All perfectly edible I assure you.

The picker is my MIL and she eats then herself