There's this charm about their food, that even though you've been visiting PUTIEN regularly for more 10 years, most visits still impress you as though it's your first. And to stimulate things a little, sometimes they'll offer limited-time dishes using seasonal ingredients from the Putien in China.
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For the month of October and November, PUTIEN is serving the prized Red Mushroom from the deep mountains of Mount Wuyi. Rare and precious, the Red Mushroom is crowned as, "China's Natural Top-Grade Wild Treasure of the Mountains" and the "King of Mushrooms". The red roundish ingredient you see in my photo here is the Red Mushroom.
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Besides this dish, the Red Mushroom can also be enjoyed in their Double-Boiled Chicken Soup with Red Mushroom ($34.80). I found these mushrooms to have a lovely wine-like flavour, with a lighter but finer earthiness.
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I also got to know that harvesting of the Red Mushrooms is an arduous process as experienced pickers trek for over 6 hours in challenging conditions to handpick these mushrooms in the wee hours of morning. Knowing this, I had to savour every bit of these mushrooms, to better enjoy its taste and to appreciate the labour behind it.
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