feral trade bamboo shoots from Yuyao Zhejiang, China 笋干菜 salty dried bamboo shoots with vegetables from artist Boat Zhang's parents' former mountain village. Traditionally pressed in large containers by bare feet then weighted down with stones before drying outside on village street. The bag contains bamboo and xue cai, another vegetable particular to the location. Cooking suggestions: soup stock, dipping sauce, steam with fish, or cook between layers of meat, the shoots will soak up the fat & increase in flavour. ferally traded since: 05/08/15. FER-2478 Feral Trade Bristol, UK to Grand Union Birmingham, UK dispatched 19/10/18 delivered 26/10/18 bamboo shoots shipment FER-2478 REMARKS: for https://grand-union.org.uk/gallery/ways-of-learning-programmed-with-lucy-lopez QTY: 1 units at pack each FROM: Feral Trade in Bristol, UK http://feraltrade.org TO: Grand Union in Birmingham, UK http://grand-union.org.uk SENDER: kate rich RECEIVER: Jo Capper REQUESTED: to ship between 28/09/18 and 28/11/18 INVOICE: invoice-2478 STATUS: delivered Grand Union 26/10/18 MAP route map www.feraltrade.org COURIER: Boat Zhang  kate rich  Tom Lopez  TOTAL ROUTE:  Yuyao-Shanghai airport-London Heathrow Airport-Liverpool Station-London KingsX station-Lebanese Bakery London-London Paddington station-Bristol Temple Meads station-Feral Trade--Grand Union bamboo shoots Feral Trade to Grand Union Shipping Facts FER-2462 import purchase & freight 10 x bamboo shoots pack gross per pack £30 paid to Boat for 10x 100g bamboo shoot packs £30 £3.00 total £30 £3.00 Shipping Report FER-2478 onward transit of FER-2462 from Yuyao arrived Feral Trade 2018-10-11 kate rich Met Boat along with Hong Kong feral trader Ming Lin, in london bakery, an intricate mix of multiple trajectories: Feral Trade changing trains in London, enroute back to Bristol from feral business workshop in Berlin, Boat stopping over in London from a 2 week artist residency with the Liverpool Biennial before her flight back to Shanghai and Ming taking 2 weeks pause in London from a ricochet travel schedule underway for already some months. After food and cash transaction, trader returned to Bristol by the first post peak hour train, the 19:12 from Paddington which despite being late sped to Bristol on a deluxe barely stopping route. bamboo shoots transit: Yuyao to Feral Trade     freight and handling bamboo shoots to Grand Union sponsored by    FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org