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Poll: Do you eat Bitter Melon?I'm Asian, I do not eat bitter melon (26) 35% Not Asian, wtf is a bitter melon? (21) 28% I'm Asian, I eat bitter melon (15) 20% I'm Asian, wtf is a bitter melon? (8) 11% Not Asian. I eat bitter melon (3) 4% Not Asian, I do not eat bitter melon (1) 1% 74 total votes Your vote: Do you eat Bitter Melon? (Vote): I'm Asian, I eat bitter melon
(Vote): I'm Asian, I do not eat bitter melon
(Vote): I'm Asian, wtf is a bitter melon?
(Vote): Not Asian. I eat bitter melon
(Vote): Not Asian, I do not eat bitter melon
(Vote): Not Asian, wtf is a bitter melon?
Just want to know how much people actually eat this if they are not Asian.
When I study in the states I did not remember ANY western food that taste bitter at all. They must be be missing like 20% of the basic tastes!
I am curious on how extreme this is, is the "dislike" close to 99%?
I fear some of you may not even know what a bitter melon is, so I added options for that.... (May be that is why you are here, to find out what it is.)
Wiki: Bitter Melon
For those of you that have never tried it: its a fruit but it is cooked and eaten like vegetable. You eat it when its still green and not fully matured. The taste is, guess what, Bitter. Its not like medicine kind of bitter, but more natural, plantlike kind of taste (hard to describe taste in words....).
 
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Wheres the I am asian and my parents forced me to eat it against my will  haha but option 1, terrible terrible dish never ran across a tasty incarnation of it ever.
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Baa?21244 Posts
I eat a little bit, not a fan in general.
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Bitter is just a shitty flavor. Bitter melon is good for you but there are tastier vegetables to fill its role. I am disappoint you don't have a recipe to share.
EDIT: I partly take back that bitter is a shitty flavor. I like the bitterness in tea and beer is somewhat bitter. It's just the bitterness in bitter melon that sucks.
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United States4053 Posts
there are much better incarnations of bitter
such as 茼蒿 (garland crysanthemums, kinda like a bitter spinach which tastes good in a stew for some reason)
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Well, it has a nickname of "Half life melon" in Chinese, as you need to spend half your life before you can appreciate the taste of "bittersweet". 
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On October 12 2011 15:38 Newbistic wrote:
Bitter is just a shitty flavor. Bitter melon is good for you but there are tastier vegetables to fill its role. I am disappoint you don't have a recipe to share.
I think it taste best when fried together with eggs; you should add some sugar to mitigate some of the bitterness.
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I like stuffing bittermelon with ground pork and vermicelli. =)
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white boi here. i eat bitter melon like there's no tomorrow. the seeds have that fluffy skin over them.. what is that??
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azn, i can tolerate 1 or 2 pieces at a time but thats about it
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Parents eat it sometimes--I will not touch it.
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Can anyone give me a explanation that isn't a wikipedia blurb? I've only.. I think heard of bitter melon once or twice and never spent too much thought on it.
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On October 12 2011 15:46 kingjames01 wrote:
I like stuffing bittermelon with ground pork and vermicelli. =)
Haha. I eat that occasionally. I can't eat too much bitter melon though, as its flavor is so strong, even with the pork stuffing.
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United States10328 Posts
I've had it before, but it's pretty ugh. My grandma likes it, and my mom to a lesser extent...
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I'm asian. Love that shit stir fried with a bit of salt. om nom nom
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My parents can't get enough of Bitter Melon...but I don't get much enjoyment out of eating it. Maybe I'm just not trying it the right way?
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I'm asian, and I eat it. I don't like eating it because I hate the taste. But meh. It compliments some dinners as a "side" pretty well. It's healthy also. My parents love it.
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i'm asian and the mere sight of it turns me off :D
my family loves it tho.
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i didn't know it was a thing :s i've got an album called bitter melon farm but i just assumed it meant that the melons they grew weren't very nice or something haha. on topic though i'd try it at least, i like some things that are bitter so i might like it.
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+ Show Spoiler +I always thought this thing is better served as a tool for masturbation than for food
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Not asian, don't know what it is. But i would love to try one. Im in for trying anything as long as it's healthy and doesn't look like a pile of shit. Could it be possible to get one of these in Croatia, i wonder?
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I'm asian, have eaten it before, but odn't like it
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it tastes fucking good. just cook it the proper way.
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Taiwan619 Posts
my parents love it. i hate it. lol.
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I'm not Asian, never heard about it nor eaten it.
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Im Chinese and I was originally put off by bitter melon. But maybe because of smoking tobacco I have developed a taste for stronger tasting foods such as olives :D
I like bitter melon but not too much, it is an interesting flavour.
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I hate the bitter taste, parents love it in soup and shit but i can't stand it. I have grown a tolerance to it as of late but i still don't like it and i definitely wouldn't be eating it.
+1 Gook too.
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Updated with link to wiki...
TBH, It actually looks quite ugly ...
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50569 Posts
On October 12 2011 17:07 Sufficiency wrote:+ Show Spoiler +I always thought this thing is better served as a tool for masturbation than for food
its official,I'll never have bittter melon ever again,not that I liked it in the first place.
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If you can get baby bitter melons, the taste isn't as strong as the big ones. They're good with fermented shrimp/fish sauce (bagoong in the Philippines) or when cooked with other vegetables, again with a little fermented sauce. My parents are big fans of having bitter melon cooked with eggs for breakfast, but utterly failed in convincing me to do so myself.
I forgot to add that I also enjoy eating pickled bitter melon (atchara) as a side dish for grilled meat.
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