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苦瓜炒肉 (kǔ guā chǎo ròu), stir-fried bitter melon with pork.
This is a bit unusual. Bitter melon (aka bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd or bitter cucumber) is usually paired with beef, but this version used pork. It worked well. The melon was more than averagely bitter (a good thing in my book). Lately they seem to be selectively breeding the bitterness out of them. Why?
苦瓜炒肉 (kǔ guā chǎo ròu), stir-fried bitter melon with pork.
This is a bit unusual. Bitter melon (aka bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd or bitter cucumber) is usually paired with beef, but this version used pork. It worked well. The melon was more than averagely bitter (a good thing in my book). Lately they seem to be selectively breeding the bitterness out of them. Why?
苦瓜炒肉 (kǔ guā chǎo ròu), stir-fried bitter melon with pork.
This is a bit unusual. Bitter melon (aka bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd or bitter cucumber) is usually paired with beef, but this version used pork. It worked well. The melon was more than averagely bitter (a good thing in my book). Lately they seem to be selectively breeding the bitterness out of them. Why?
苦瓜炒肉 (kǔ guā chǎo ròu), stir-fried bitter melon with pork.
This is a bit unusual. Bitter melon (aka bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd or bitter cucumber) is usually paired with beef, but this version used pork. It worked well. The melon was more than averagely bitter (a good thing in my book). lately they seem to be selectively breeding the bitterness out of them. Why?
