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Digging up bamboo shoots! 竹の子を掘ってみた!

It's Showa Day in Japan and it's a holiday. How does Chika enjoy her holiday? Just a quick overview, Chika, together with her friend Maruka, goes to a bamboo forest. Digging out, peeling off, eating bamboo shoots! Plus a short performance from bamboo band! Such a clever way to spend the holiday.

Highlights

"I am in a bamboo forest. What we're here for today is to get some bamboo shoots."
"And I've got Maruka with me. She's taking footage of her own. It's really wet, it's really like moist. They're so fuzzy and soft."
"We're going to pick some bamboos dig them out and eat them."
"You want to find a bamboo shoot that has a nice, round, big butt-- a bootylicious bamboo and then you're going to take this really heavy too and dig it out."
"Reminds me of summer when all of the lawns around the neighborhood are freshly mowed."
"We picked up some sannsho in our way here. This is Japanese pepper."
footage
Noun. scenes or action recorded on film or video
moist
Adjective. slightly or barely wet: not completely dry
fuzzy
Adjective. covered with short, soft hairs, fur
butt
Noun. buttocks - often used as a euphemism for ass in idiomatic expressions
bootylicious
Adjective. sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
mow
Verb. to cut the standing herbage (as grass) of

Refs

[japanagos]
15-05-27 23:36, 15-05-28 22:44, Marz