Went foraging for wild mushrooms recently in the wilds beyond the Toyosawa dam on the outskirts of Hanamaki, Iwate. I’ve been foraging with Haruo-san for more than 12 years now. I’m still skittish about mushrooms as so many are poisonous and it’s so easy to make a mistake, but I love being out hiking and foraging – though the spring wild greens are more my speed.
We say “bori” a lot in this video, which is local slang. They are more commonly called naratake, or honey mushrooms in English.
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Mushrooms are so photogenic, one of my favorite parts of forest floors and walking through forests. I've never been a fan of the mushrooms we got on pizza and in soups in america, but I've always wanted to try local mushrooms and having them cooked to be…not slimey lol
What a cool experience! Reminds me of hunting morel mushrooms in Nebraska with my dad. It's videos like these that show the Japanese culture best, I think. The love of nature, people and good food :3
This video is my favorite of all videos on YouTube ! 🍄 I’ve watched it so many times lol do more foraging please.
Life advice: Find you someone who is as excited and runs to you the way Haruo-san ran to those nameko 😀
I bought a field guide for mushroom foraging in Japan but my Japanese isn't great. Do you know what the more dangerous varieties are so I can begin to study them?
5:00 are not matsutake. They are chicken of the woods.
That intro was so wholesome with him getting so excited about his find.
You need to know your mushrooms. So many people die in the U.S. because they go for a walk and think it's okay to eat anything. Next thing they know they need an immediate liver transplant.
And here hunting Mushroom in Bali:
https://youtu.be/bzF45_hXFjM
Man i wanna eat the murasaki colored ones.
Great video bro!
This is awesome!
Thanks for sharing. Maybe one day we will run into each other in the mountains haha
Your old friend's enthusiasm is contagious, even I am also is getting super excited😅
Do you have any videos of the pink oysters in their native environment? information if no videos? I just want to know how and where they grow in the wild. All the information I see is about cultivation and cultivated mushrooms not wild ones.
Aikawatake?
Ramaria flava is one my favorite mushroom
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Another great video. Living in the tropics with hot and humid weather all year round, we get plenty of mushrooms but I think most are not edible!
This was wonderful, thank you! I'm planning a trip to Japan in '22 and love mushrooms so much! Can you recommend any mushroom/foraging excursion in Japan? (I'm hoping my Japanese will be acceptable by then)
Thank you! i am new to mushroom foraging and have found a lot but i don't know what they are so i look amd marvel over all the different types. I'm subscribing and if you have a FB page i will be looking for it.
With mushrooms the general rule is – white ring bad!!!
Did u see any magic mushrooms?
Woman in México hunting for wild mushrooms in rainforest!
https://youtu.be/SAHBsw_zuXc
it is better never to gather mushrooms with a plastic bag. If you happen to pick poisonous mushrooms they can spoil all the mushrooms and spores can not come out and propagate. either a Basket (best) or a cloth bag.
havent been mushroom foraging since moving to Tokyo 4 years ago
I’m a mushroom forager, and sure that you have translated I correctly most of the mushrooms.
The orange polypore mushroom is not a matsutake. The purple mushroom is not a wood blewit but a purple deceiver.
Be careful… you might end up in the hospital again.
Did your guide know anything about magic mushrooms? Now that would be a good trip!
We use to hunt wild mushrooms every rainy season. All with rings are poisonous. They do not have the green mushrooms which can be eaten raw.
Those rings keep making me worried.
Where I grew up, the poisonous mushrooms there have that ring around them.
I live in Japan now, so I will have to learn to fight against my impulse.