You will find bamboo shoot being used widely in Asian cuisine. They are cooked in soup, stir-fried, boiled, as filler in spring rolls, etc and come in many forms and shape too. If you ever visit Asian grocery store, you will see huge containers in the refrigerator section filled with bamboo shoots swimming in water, in various shapes and sizes. Some are huge, some are in fine strips. These are fresh bamboo shoots. You will also fine bamboo shoots in canned, also in various sizes and shapes.