On the way to Inuyama with our friend's family, he suddenly stopped the car on the way, beside a paddy field. The field seemed to be bare with muddy surface and there were two people picking something from the sloping edges of the field. And we were really confused about why we are there. Then our companions also started bending down at the slopes and picking something from the ground. It was some weed, called tsukushi, the horsetail which will show up the stalks during the onset the spring and they told it is really delicious and can be used in Japanese dishes.
As we people don't know how to cook it, we helped them with plucking some stalks for them which we collected in a cover. And we saw an old man with a cover full of stalks and still continuing his job over there. He seems to be picking it from the morning. Since it was really a quite place far away from the city and it as not at all crowded, it was really interesting to pluck it without any hindrance. As the rays are quite warmer even at the starting of spring, it was intolerable for us after some time.
But we managed to pluck half a cover of the weed stalk while my friend explained the cooking procedure. His wife cooked some tsukushi for us the very next day. She cooked it in oil with meat and it was delicious.
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