A staple of Chinese and Indian cooking, these gourds (botanically, Momordica charantia) with skin like toads grow on climbing vines that can reach 12 feet.

Most of us could stand to eat more vegetables. Up your intake of this one vegetable and you can prevent cancer while also ...

Bitter melon is often paired with fermented black beans in Chinese cuisine. You could easily swap out the pork for thinly sliced beef in this savory, spicy stir-fry. I served it on rice.

Bitter melon looks more like a bumpy cucumber, which is like a cousin in the squash family. ... Trim ends of melon and cut in half. Scoop out the white pith and seeds and discard.

Cooked more like a vegetable than a fruit, bitter melon is a common ingredient in Indian stews and curries, Japanese and Chinese stir-fries, sauteed Filipino dishes and fried snacks.

As a child in Manila, Mr. Valdez didn’t care for bitter melon, an oblong summer squash, also known as bitter gourd, with a wrinkly, ridged surface and spongy seed pocket.

At COA, a cocktail bar in Hong Kong specializing in agave spirits, founder Jay Khan, 38, opts for the less common, slightly mellower white bitter melon in his Bitter Melon Collins.

A rare white bitter melon, shown against a backdrop of the normal vegetable. Actually, maybe it’s a fruit. Jaws dropped when Fei Long recently opened on the south end of Sunset Park’s ...

The white interior is similar to a melon’s with a group of foamy seeds in the center. Flavor Profile : While other related fruits—cukes, watermelons, cantaloupes—have a light and sweet flavor, bitter ...