Hot and sour soup with foraged fungi

So, urbpan told me that the fungus I posted about a few entries back, the one he showed me (Exidia recisa), is good in hot and sour soup. I love hot and sour soup! So I went back out and gathered more of it...



...and then plumped it up in water, and then grabbed a hot-and-sour soup recipe off the Internet, only to discover that although I had the things to make the soup flavor (garlic, hot chiles, chicken stock, soy sauce, vinegar), I didn't have any of the other soup innards--bamboo shoots, l...