Beef and Chili Bamboo Shoots in Butterhead Lettuce

I first sampled this delicious dish when I was 11 years old at a local Chinese restaurant in north London when my family was invited by my parents’ new-found friends to celebrate our move to England from South Africa. My mother also fell in love with the dish and recreated it at home, serving it on iceberg lettuce. I remember her complaining about not being able to get fresh bamboo shoots (something she took for granted as my grandparents were farmers and had a bamboo farm), so she had to g