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What does /ck/ think of bitter melon?

>> No.6616109

>>6616104
I love it with black bean sauce. Good with both pork and tofu skin.

>> No.6616114

Absolutely disgusting ching chong durka durka garbage vegetable 0/10

>> No.6616131

BRETTY GOOD WHEN MADE BY A YELLOW PERSON

>> No.6616134

Fry with some salt, eggs, and pork, absolutely delicious!

>> No.6616149

>>6616104
Tastes just like the average IPA

>> No.6616150

It's pretty bitter

>> No.6616169

I like it. My family all hate it. Guess that's what they get for raising a white kid in, as >>6616114 would say, a ching chong durka durka garbage country.

I like it stew-fried (like... half stir-fry, half stew; dunno a better word for it) with tomatoes, pork mince and beaten eggs as well as in curry. I don't like it as a salad, though.

>> No.6616875
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6616875

They're disgusting. I tried the Chinese and the Indian varieties and they're both horrible.

>> No.6616881

Bitterness is really up there as far as having a mature palate goes, so few people here will like it.

I like to fry in sesame oil it and have it over rice with a bit of rice wine vinegar and soy sauce. An easy and flavoursome snack.

>> No.6616884
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6616884

>>6616881

>> No.6616886

looks like a cucumber, probably not as pleasurable when you put it in your butt

>> No.6616939

>>6616881
kill yourself
>>6616104
pretty great, I prefer the spiny variety as a dry fry with mustard oil, birds eye pepper, and turmeric. the smooth variety is better sauteed. both varieties can take a lot of salt.

>> No.6617006
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6617006

>>6616881
>An easy and flavoursome snack.

hahahahahaha

>> No.6617017

>>6616884
god damn twisted fate what happened to you

>> No.6617030

>>6616104

anime food

>> No.6617070

>>6616881
Eat some soap faggot.
An easy and antibacterial snack!

>> No.6617087
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6617087

>>6616881
holy

>> No.6617112

Meh tolerable

>> No.6617141
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6617141

It really depends on the dish and how it's used to enhance the flavor, but on its own it's so acrid it tastes like fucking soap.

Makes a great addition to beer, though.

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6618829

>>6616881

>an easy and flavoursome snack

>> No.6618912

>>6616149
Sounds pretty good to me

>> No.6618918

>>6616881
I like it but I hate you

>> No.6620200

>>6616881
>Bitterness is really up there as far as having a mature palate goes

Bitterness is a flavor related to poisonous/harmful compounds.

>> No.6620222

>>6617006

what are you doing here ben?

>> No.6620237

>>6616875
Cucumbers used to be pretty bitter before european farmers figured out that they could breed them to taste good. If you go to an asian grocery store you can find bitter cucumbers if you want to punish your taste buds

>> No.6620923

>>6620237
I heard you were supposed to peel cucumbers towards the stem or otherwise you'd stroke all the bittern over the entire cucumber. Most of the bitterness was at the stem.

>> No.6620955

>>6616104
It took me a while to get used to them. I remember as a kid my mom would be in the kitchen peeling them and trying to get me to try them. A lot Filipinos would use it in their dishes.

>> No.6621016

>>6616104
I've only had it once at a Chinese restaurant as a Pork and Bitter Melon soup, and I really liked it/found nothing amiss with it. Would eat again.

>> No.6621025

>>6616104
Never enjoyed it.

Even as an Chinese who's stayed his whole life in an Asian country, bitter melon is one of the worst things I've ever had. The one time this vegetable has been tolerable was in a mean stew/soup my grandmother made with lots of minced pork and white pepper, otherwise I try as best as I can to politely decline eating it.

>> No.6621815

>>6616104
those bumps would be much better for masturbation than classic cucumbers

>> No.6622181
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6622181

>>6616884
>>6617087
>>6618829
>>6620200
>>6616881
>>6618918
>>6617070

>an easy and flavoursome meme!

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6622214

>>6622181

>> No.6622247

>>6622214
But anon, it's Wednesday

>> No.6622252
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6622252

You scrubs, bitter melon is dirt cheap, delicious and extremely good for you. If your baby palate can't take the bitterness then you can do things like salt the bitter melon and let it sit for 30 minutes. This leeches out a fair amount of water and along with it a lot of the bitterness. Be sure to remove the pith/seeds on the inside as well, the cleaner you do this the less bitter it will be. Blanching also removes bitterness. Slice and saute with garlic and a bit of sugar and you have a base with which you can do anything. I cook it in an egg pancake (pic related).

>> No.6622263

>>6620200
Well, that would be why you have to learn to appreciate it, instead of immediately enjoying it like you did with sugar when you were a child.

>> No.6622267

>>6622252
why did you shit on your plate?

>> No.6622286

>>6622247
Shut up

>> No.6622955

>>6620200
what a dumbfuck.
look apperantly you are too dumb and childish to understand what he said but when you are a kid, overeating vegetables can kill you. they tend to have a lot of minerals your underdeveloped body has a hard time processing, like iron. so when you grow up you lose the sense of bitterness (unless you never ate them and are basically unable to eat vegetables) for these kinds of foods, thus associating a lack of appreciation for bitter foods with fucking man children and 9 year olds.

i cant say it surprises me how many of you fags cant handle the cold hard truth. I wonder what the numbers of a mandatory poll on this board would say on which vegetables no one will put up with. I bet 70% of them.

>> No.6623407
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6623407

I bet you faggots also think durian smells bad.

>> No.6623414
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6623414

Forget bitter melons.

What do you think about this hairy piece of shit?

>> No.6623416

>>6623414
Okra? It's great.

>> No.6623417

>>6622181
Congrats, you managed to be even more pathetic than the original post

>> No.6623421
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6623421

>>6622955
>overeating vegetables can kill you.
You complete and utter, ignorant, blithering, retarded, moronic, spastic-witted, bottom feeding, window licking, drooling, sub educational shit-cunt.

>> No.6624187

>>6623414
It's okay when it's boiled, sliced, and added to soup.

>> No.6624275

>>6617006
It is literally eaten as a snack in India with pooris. Turmeric salt amchur and red pepper. Bretty good too. But kids hate it.