Double boiled bitter gourd soup with dried scallops & oysters

One of my favourites is the bitter gourd.  Be it fried, in juice, in soup or as yong tau fu. Here, i would like to share not only a nice bitter gourd soup recipe, but also some nutrition facts about the tropical vegetable.

Bitter gourd health benefits are brought about because of its high density in precious nutrients. As the name suggests this vegetable has a bitter taste. However, the consumption of this vegetable is very high, since there are several health benefits of bitter gourd that are well known of. Some examples below :

Controls diabetes : The melon family vegetable and diabetes are closely linked to each other, since ancient days as herbalists believe that bitter gourd possesses powerful qualities in controlling the blood condition.

Purifying blood : The bitter tonic properties that are present in this vegetable help purify the blood, by getting rid of all the toxins and impuritie.

Fighting off cancers and other conditions

Lameeya (Damansara Utama)

Lameeya, deliciously famous for its 'Lam Mee' is also one of the favourite noodle dishes among the Chinese central and southern part of Malaysia. Besides the original Lam Mee version, the cozy and comfortable restaurant offers wide variety of Lam Mee versions (such as mushroom lam mee, char siew chicken lam udon, chicken kuey teow soup and etc) accompanied by the many different choices of side dishes (fried dumplings, fried foo chuk, meat balls and many more) that will cook up your appetite at the most affordable price. 

For those who are interested in healthy fresh juices, Lameeya has a whole list of vegetables/fruit juices.

Fresh Unique Seafood Restaurant

Satisfy all your seafood cravings here at Unique Seafood Restaurant (Jalan Kemajuan Section 13). With wide seafood range, fresh from the water tank, Unique Seafood Restaurant knows how to prepare your selection of seafood flavourful. If you’re generous with your wallet, you may want to try Alaskan Crabs, Australian spider crabs, oysters, geoducks and some nice abalones.

Ipoh Kitchen

Ipoh’s local delicious food is now easily available at Bangsar’s Lucky Garden. The menu with wide variety kept us occupied for sometime, thinking which to order as everything in the menu looked good. Ipoh Kitchen serves Ipoh hawker food, a little pricier than the street price of course, but with very cozy ambience. Best for family dinner. The menu runs down from ala carte dishes like vege, meat, tofu, seafood and soup to individual meals like rice and noodles.