bitter gourd is a popular vegetable used in okinawa as a food staple.
people often fry it with egg and glass noodles and some meat.
it is called goya chanpuru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanpur%C5%AB\

its supposed to be super healthy.

anyone here eat and cook it regularly?

i'm thinking of having a shot cooking it (i have to find some bitter gourd first lol)

I've eaten these from time to time when I can get pass the taste of it. My parents like to eat it steamed or sometimes they put it in stir fry .. It tastes better stir fried imo..

fwahaha chanpuru was in azumanga daioh when they all went to okinawa.. n_n

anyways, i really don't like goya b/c its bitter (and who likes bitter things o_o)

omgg i love it!! none of my friends like it though >.>
i like it in everything : )

Parents eat it all the time.

I avoid it as much as I can.

I like it fried with eggs.. don't eat it that often.
I used to hate it..

yes, i love it...my mum cook with shrimp and egg

we just had it today for dinner..mixed with egg, ground pork, tomatoes...
i used to hate it when i was a kid because it was bitter..but when i got older, i actually like it now..
my grandma loves to eat it...she prefers the most bitter ones and she prefers eating it by itself with rice..

I never use to like it but now i do

I love it in the soup my mum makes but also theres this dim sum i had in hong kong which uses it with prawns in it mmmm

ahh, bitter gourd. i like it. taste good when fried together with egg and dried shrimps.

is that like bitter melon?
cause if it is...i'm not very partial to it

oh i eat that wen the parents cook it....
"its good for ur blood..." this and that.... its not thaaat bitter, but its not thaaat great either LOL

This is like bitter melon, right? Or is it the same thing? Because I love this stuff! It's not that bitter for me because I've eaten it so much.

It is bitter melon. lol
I hate it, I can't stand anything bitter

i like em in soups and fried eggs. lol.
its deliciouss for me.

yup, it's the equivalent of chinese 'fu gua' or 'ku gua' or just bitter melon. in my cantonese family, fu gua is made stir-friend with beef in a black-bean sauce. YUM!

it is known for it detoxification effects. My friend told me she uses pureed fu gua as a mask!! In the summer, there is bitter melon tea to prevent heat-exhaustion.

I hate this stuff.. I only like the eat the beef when it's stir fried with bitter melon and black bean sauce.

I saw that on that Dotch cooking show and it looked good, but I don't think I'll like it for some reason. :x

I can't eat the bitter stuff alone. I can eat it with other food though.