Bitter Melon Stuffed with Pork and Black Fungus

Luke Nguyen: In Vietnamese culture and medicine, food is referred to as having ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ effects on the body. This doesn’t refer to the temperature of the body, but rather the state of wellbeing. Fried food, for example, is ‘hot’, so you need to eat ‘cooling’ foods to balance the body. As you can imagine, the ‘cooling’ foods are all the ones that kids hate to eat. Bitter melon, winter melon and pennywort l