Chinese Paella

Ingredients

• 8 dried black mushrooms
• 12 medium-size raw shrimp
• 6 chicken drumsticks or 12 chicken wing drummettes
• Salt
• pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
• 12 live mussels (scrubbed, beards removed, or 12 live manila clams, scrubbed)
• 1/2 cup water
• 3 3/4 cups chicken broth (approx.)
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 2 teaspoons garlic (minced )
• 2 teaspoons ginger (minced )
• 1 large onion (chopped)
• 1 red bell pepper (seeded and chopped)
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
• 2 cups uncooked long-grain rice (rinsed and drained)
• 2 Chinese sausages (cut into 1/4-inch thick diagonal slices, about 2 oz. each)
• 1 small whole bamboo shoot (cut lengthwise into thin wedges)
• 12 snow peas (ends and strings removed)
• 1/4 cup cilantro (chopped )