The Best Chinese Bitter Melon Recipe 

I am a diabetic and bitter melon help me low my blood sugar. I cleaned it and cut to 2 inches take out the seeds with some white part and I boiled in water , and I eat it and drink the juice. No more med .😀😀😀😀😀😀

Yes, more recipes with the canned fish please!

For many years, I have been seeing the canned fried dace fish with oily and salty black beans (豆豉鲮鱼) in Chinese grocery stores, but never knew how to eat them. At last, you enlightened me and I made this dish today. So quick to make and tasted really good!

I grew up enjoying 豆豉鲮鱼 and still love that to this very day. I would love to watch more of your wonderful recipes with 豆豉鲮鱼.

Yes more recipes! I like that you use lots of vegetables and spice!

Your recipe was delicious --thanks for sharing!

I am always looking for recipies using fried dace and black beans. Please more recipies!❤

Always get so hungry when I watch your videos. I loved the bitterness of bittermelon since childhood and anytime I come across another recipe I have to make it. Thanks for another yummy dish!

More recipes with the canned fried dace please. I love that stuff. Thank you .

I would love to see more of your bittermelon recipes. Thank you Mandy!

I found that exact can and made the dish, ( I'm already a big bitter melon fan ) the fish really surprised me, I absolutely loved it

Yes would love to see more recipes with the canned fish! Growing up my mom always made it with just fermented black beans but I’m sure the fish amplifies the flavour 👍

I love your channel your recipes are so easy to follow. I can’t wait to try. Please use the caned fish WTH the black beans in other recipes! Thank you. 😄

I've eaten bitter melon & loved it, but never cooked it. I recently decided I must make it myself, and your channel is the first place I went. That's how much I respect your knowledge, skill and authenticity. Thank you Mandy, you are a treasure! Luckily I have wonderful Vietnamese groceries locally.

I just tried this recipe and it was amazing!

I like when you talk about recipes your mom fed you as a kid 😊

Thank you so much for this recipe, Mandy. Other than having this fried dace with plain porridge, I never know how else to serve it. So some more recipes using this fish would be appreciated. And if you have more recipes using bitter melon, that would be such a treat too.❤

More recipes with Fried Dace please! As usual, thank you for your great recipes!

This looks so good! I love bitter melon. Please do more recipes with black bean fish also!! 😊

That’s a new recipe for me! Thank you so much for sharing! I plan on introducing my 20 month-old toddler soon to bitter melon! We mainly either stuff it and cook in a broth or stir fry it with eggs. This recipe looks so delicious! I’ll make it for my husband and toddler, and just drool while watching them eat since I can’t eat fish.

The dish looks ez to make, and so delicious! Thank you dear.

Looking delicious , will try to do. Thank you so much

Yummy, thanks for the recipe!

I love the canned fried dace with black beans, and also grew up eating it. Never thought about cooking and adding other things to eat. Would love to see more recipes with it.

I made this dish and its was so good!

I hated fu-gua growing up until I had it in a restaurant where it was stuffed with conpoy, steamed and sauced with a clear savory sauce. So delicious! Now I love it especially in Indian cooking.

Love this recipe and more like it.

Looks so good

Absolutely. I would love to see more recipes.

My mom makes it from time to time. I love bitter melon and this specific kind of 豆豉鲮魚 brand, too!

Canned Dace has a long cultural history in the US as well; its equal parts sad and beautiful. (It was one of few canned foods that were successfully brought to the US with Chinese immigrants I believe as far back as the 1920s. It was a taste of home for so many and its a cultural focal point for innumerable people - eaten on its own, cooked with vegetables, served over hot rice. It's such a humble kitchen staple but like potatoes for the irish people, it was a lifeline for the times and it persists into the modern palette)

I've always been curious about Bitter melon, I think this recipe is simple enough for me to try.

Yes please! I would love to see more canned fish recipes 😊

i love your videos , so informative!

I am going to have to try this recipe! I LOVE the fried fish in black bean and always buy it when I go to the Asian store. I've tried bitter melon and would like another way to cook it. This looks delicious.

I accidentally bought the dace with fermented vegetables and made it using this recipe. Afterwards I tried it with the black beans and I think it was much better with the fermented vegetables. I suggest you try it! Thanks for the recipe!

Thanks Mandy for this innovative recipe. I love my bittermelon in the shrimp fried rice with a touch of shrimp paste...sooo good. 💜

The Dace reminds me of my grandfather, who loved it.

Yes - more recipes for that kind of canned fish! I see it in the store all the time....but I've never known what to do with it!

Omg, I am hooked on fried dace with black beans. Please make more recipes with this fish. I just eat it over white rice now with some steamed greens.

Looks good. I would love to try cooking it. Thanks 😊

I love the dish. Very simple recipe. I think should be delicious.

Yes please more recipes thanks

Yes Mandy bring it on, we need more recipes using the canned fish. Now at least i know one way because eating it straight from the can can be quite salty. Thanks for sharing 😍

Thanks for sharing! I will give this a try, hopefully my kids will like bitter melon after this!

Yes please I would love to see more

My first exposure to bitter melon was in a homemade Vietnamese soup. I thought something in the spoon was trying to bite my tongue off! That was almost 50 years ago. This recipe makes me wanna try again.

I have been learning how to like and appreciate bitter melon. This is a good recipe to try

Yes please more recipes with canned fish. I discovered it a couple years ago and always keep a few cans on hand for a quick meal over rice but I would love to see how it’s supposed to be done

So yummy !

I absolutely love your channel! I enjoy making your recipes.

Wow- so delicious and healthy ! Thank you for your recipe ! :)

Yes, please, I would like to see more of the can of fried dace with fermented black beans.

Grew up hating it of course, gave it some chance at about 25. Im 30 now and I can’t help but drool at every bitter melon dish i see. 🤤

Bitter melon is always one of my favorite.

I love stir fry bitter melon!

You make bitter melon look so good!

"Fried Dace" was such a go to food when I was a College student. We'd always buy a few cans at the start of the semester and towards the end when money was tight, this fish plus a bowl or two of white rice would hit the exact right spot. This can of fish by the way will last for a while. Since it's packed with flavor, you only need a little bit to top the rice with and you'd be all set. If we were super tight with cash, we'd make congee which is if i remember correctly like an 8 or 10 to 1 ratio of water to rice and top it with the fried dace. Brings back good memories

I would love to see more recipes with tinned fish. Didn't know there was a Chinese version...I'll look for it in my next trip to the Asian market

Yes, more recipes using the canned fish. Thanks!

looks sooo good, thank you 😇

Im interested in the canned fish. I brought a can once and had some with rice. It was ok so would appreciate a few recipies for this.

Hi Wendy. I just watched your vlog tonight. I love bitter mellon. I tried to copy for cooking but instead of the canned fish which you used, I used salted dried fish. I soaked the dried fish in water for 30 minutes to remove any chemicals & saltiness. I used the Garlic Black Beans Sauce to compliment with the dried fish & bitter mellon. The outcome of the dish was superb. I was able to buy that canned fish you used for cookig this dish at our Local Asian Grocer (Ranch 99) here in Fremont, Ca. Did not realized that there are many kinds of these canned fish & I do not read Chinese.

I always ate the wokked bittermelon and canned black beans fish separate. Never had the idea to put together. I am curious now 🤤🤤

Yes would love to learn more new recipes with this canned fish…

Thanks for sharing

I like to eat bitter gourd 😍😍😍. Recipe that I will try later. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Always healthy.💝🥰

Been eating that canned fish my entire life and never thought to use it as an ingredient for other dishes! Going to make this tomorrow!

This looks good. And yes, more recipes with the canned fish, please 🙂

One of my favourites.

Looking delicious 👍

This actually looks really good, I also cant stand bitter melon to this day but that fish looks so deliciously chewy that I would eat that easily

I happen to have a can of the fish in my cupboard as we speak. My Chinese roommate back in college introduced me to this canned fish while we wandered around Chinatown (NYC). Yes, more recipes with it!

Looks yummy 😋

Yes…more recipes using this canned fish. I love this canned fish.

Oh yes please do more videos with recipes using canned fish! Thank you so much!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Was happy and pleasantly surprised when I saw this video as I only had this fish last week. I just steam it and have it with white rice. That's the only way my mum has done it so that's the only way I know. I never thought of cooking it with other ingredients so would be interested to know what other recipes I can do with it 😊

I'd be happy if you'd post some more of those delitious authentic chinese food recipes. 😊 thank you Mandy

I'm totally making this tomorrow.

Yummy!❤

oh yes... please do have more recipes with this canned fish...

I got hooked on it in dumplings. I didn’t like them at first but then somehow ended up craving them later on😅. Then I ordered it stir-fried with eggs and that’s really good, too.

Yay a new bittermelon recipe 😊

Yummy!

Definitely more recipes with the dried fish. 😊

Nice!

Yes, more recipes with canned dace. I grew up eating it with rice.

Thanks for the video

Please consider posting more videos with that particular canned fish with fermented black beans ❤

Please mandy do more recipes with bitter melon. 🙏.

how your recipes I will try it yummy

I really enjoyed your videos on fried dace with salted black beans. Could you give us a recipie on the same with long beans or french beans? Other recipies I am looking forward to is Fried Dace with Preserved Vegetable. Many thanks.

Looks yummy

Hi, Mandy! I've been curious about bitter melon for years but I've also been afraid of it for just as long. Now you've shown me a way I think I will actually try. We grow bitter melon at the community garden where I volunteer. A Korean man I know there loves that he can get fresh melon there. I asked him about how he likes it. He grinned and said, "It's an acquired taste!" 😅 PS I'm gonna get canned fried dace with black beans at our huge international market here in Nashville, Tennessee!

Lol, the bitter this bitter melon the more I love it. No matter how you cook it I love it. Unfortunately where I live in the southern TN no Asian grocery around. So I have to plant it by myself.

I would love to see more recipes using the canned fish. I actually have a can of that in my pantry, a friend said I should buy it, but I was not sure what I was supposed to do with it. I've only had bitter melon once, in a Filipino dish, but I like bitter so it was pretty good.

Yes, more recipe of this canned fish,please.

Yes, I like more recipes for Tao si lab Yu! Thank you!

Haven't had this fish in a long time! More recipes please 😊 Also love your new hair style!

now I know a new recipe of bitter gourd. thank you