Bitter melon pretty to look at, but hard to swallow

I love trying strange fruits and vegetables so I decided to pick this up on a recent run to Mitsuwa (http://www.mitsuwa.com/english/) my all time favorite Japanese market!

Behold the Bitter Melon!....

Bitter melon!  I went with the slightly less bumpy variety.  There are some that look more like this:

This is what it looks like inside (Please disregard my camera strap hanging down into the shot).

Well, I looked at various recipes and different ways to cook the bitter melon and I decided to go with a simple egg scramble, which is one of the more common ways of consuming the fruit.

One recipe suggested cooking the bitter melon slices in some salted water first to help subdue the bitter flavor.  (For me this did not work!)

I scrambled the bitter melon in with some eggs, added some soy sauce and then sat down to breakfast.

A breakfast I wouldn't soon forget!

I felt a little terrible about it, but I could not eat this!

I should have seen it coming, but it was just too...well..Bitter!

It tasted like earwax!

So, with great sadness, me and the bitter melon parted and went our separate ways.