Culinary challenge: bamboo shoot

We recently signed up for a weekly vege box from Ooooby. This week's bundle of vege joy included a fresh bamboo shoot. Or it may have been a dinosaur's claw.

Once I'd cut a few centimetres off the base and the tip, and peeled off many layers of sheath-like leaves, this is what I got:

I boiled the pieces for 30 minutes until the top section was tender, and boiled the other piece for another 20 minutes. It didn't get tender.... and didn't get eaten: too tough!
I roasted the pieces with some other less-glamorous veges from Ooooby - kumara, pumpkin (cut with my fancy corrugated knife!), onions and capsicum.

The verdict? It's a lot of work for a small amount of food. But the piece that got cooked properly was delicious. At first it had a strong potato flavour, followed by a mushroom flavour. I'd definitely give them another go!