My friend gave me a dried and compacted ear mushrooms from a chinese grocery shop. Here are the step-by-step if you soak it in the water, it'll getting big and bigger. I couldn't believe my eyes, I used only half portion and I got a lot of mushroom. I took the picture last year and found it in between picture folders because of Picasa. Picasa is a cool software from Google, it'll sort your picture collections in you computer and even able to sort it in which year you save it. Try it and enjoy the effects Picasa has.
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