Name that vegetable!

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I've been searching for a very long time for a Chinese restaurant that makes the really, really wide chow fun noodles, not the fettuccine-sized ones.  Just when I'd given up hope, sidebernie discovered that the takeout place they sometimes ordered from on game night had these noodles, so he promised to buy me some the next time he ordered from them

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[verbicide]

What did it taste like? (I can't tell from looking at it!)

Were the little ridges part of it, or were they scored on there for looks?

How curious!

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It tasted of squash and soy sauce.

The ridges appear to be part of the actual vegetable.

[lietya]

Yum! Good Sidebernie!

Alas, I have no Mystery Vegetable insights.

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Oh well. It's clearly some kind of squash, though I have no idea what kind.

Yes, I was very pleased with sidebernie's gift! I'm always happy when he comes bearing noodles. (Not that he does it all that often, but still.)

[sidebernie]

It's probably an oddly shaped chunk of bamboo shoot.

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But would that explain the squash-like seeds on the other side?

[sidebernie]

Huh. It really looks like bamboo from the back, but I don't think they have seeds like that. Dunno.

[llnaughty]

bamboo shoots are just concentric circles all the way to the center, so they wouldn't have the seeds. that is a really strange one. many squashes have ridged exteriors (here's 100+ varieties), but they follow pretty standard peak-and-valley patterns, whereas this looks exactly like bamboo from the pic, overlapping layers.

[liddle_oldman]

Summer squash?