Mouths Wide Shut

Last time, I’ve checked that I still hate eat bitter gourd, it’s bitter and probably don’t go with any other food materials. I remember two months ago, WordPress already had a prompt about picky tongue, that time I went for this vegetables also. And now today’s prompting reminds me again, so I check this food on Internet, found that it has several names, like balsam pear, Momordica charantia, bitter squash, bitter melon or maybe more. I don’t know why people eat this plant, but I guess it may be good for our health, also saw some medical use for this herbaceous vine.

As a omnivore, I literately can eat anything, as long as I want to, even the bitter gourd thing, but as I say above, it’s bitter, so I try not to eat unless somebody point a gun to my head. Joking, it is in fact not that bad, I ate this stuff several times before, it tastes bitter but I still can handle it. To make a long story short, I can eat it as a secondary choice. Several things like fat meat, fragrant-flowered garlic, and freshwater mussel and crabs are all my subordinate options when I was a little kid. You know how kid would be more too picky on food.

As for my favorite food quirks, I love Chinese food, almost every recipe and dishes. The most favorite is dumpling soaked with proportional soybean sauce and vinegar. Others like Kung Pao Chicken, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Szechwan Shrimp and Wonton Soup and there are many more.

This is today’s prompt: Mouths Wide Shut

Bitter Gourd Challenge My Picky Tongue

This stuff is the thorn in my side when I was a kid, I barely eat them. I would say they look a little bit strange out there, and taste like bitter than goldthread. But my parents told me it’s good for healthy in summer, and encouraged me to eat more.

Today, as a grownup, I can eat these bitter melon with a bad grace. In terms of my knowledge, I wonder why there is a so huge difference on flavor between the Cucurbitaceae category, like the watermelon and brinish calabash. They both grow up in summer, one is sweet and the other is pungent and sharp.

One of my supper food last week was bitter gourd and egg, it’s quite a simple recipe to DIY at home.

bitter gourd with eggs and tomato, you gonna love it

So the prompt ask me about which flavor I have to give up, so you may already have my answer in your mind. Bitter is the taste which I am sure not a fan but also for most of people. You can say it’s kind of human nature. This is the answer attach to the question per se, but I shall say I can still handle with bitter food.

Here are the evidences to prove me right about the “most of people” part:

Bye, Bitter

http://purplepeninportland.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/bye-bye-bitter/

http://amerymerry.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/take-away-the-bitterness/

http://tyastlc.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/as-bitter-as-life/