Pork with Bitter Melon Stir-fry Recipe

As promised, I am returning with a recipe, albeit this is my mom's recipe (and cooking); yes the food blogger gets to take a break when mom is around! Bitter melon or bitter gourd (??) as its' namesake implies, is very bitter. Of course, different sub-species will provide a different intensity level of bitterness - nevertheless I think there is also an underlying sweet taste to the bitter melon. I recall in my childhood days when my parents will try to force my siblings and I to eat these bitter vegetables/ fruit much to our dismay. However, I think I have finally acquired the taste for these unique and nutritious bitter melons - they taste really delicious even in a simple stir-fry as showcased today. It is quite interesting is it not, on how one's perceptions of so many things including food change with (adequate) time.









Writing about this dish reminds me of a Chinese saying, "????" which can loosely be translated to "once the end of bitterness is reached, sweetness...

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