I assume like most Asian herbal medicine they dry the bejeezus out of it and make it into a tea that tastes like fermented socks, but I've never tried it. (I used to work next to a Chinese Herbalist's place and the smells that came through the wall ranged from spicy/pleasant licorice/ginseng to Cthulhu's toilet/dried roasted leeches.) The mushroom has a texture somewhere between moist driftwood and saddle leather, so I can't imagine people just snacking on it.