Certainly, these long green fruits are bitter. Despite that, one bite soon leads to another: I find myself chewing a piece of ...

In Chinese cuisine, "gwa" - usually translated as squash or melon - covers a wide variety of vegetables and fruits such as watermelon, fuzzy melon, winter melon, Chinese okra and bitter squash.

Most of them have a range of ingredients that don’t tend to overlap, although there are a few that show up repeatedly: A few ...