Bitter Melon Soup (苦瓜汤）

I have no idea since when the bitter melon soup restaurant was growing rapidly among my hometown area, JB; and ever since I came to KL, I also realized that it also can be found around any corner, and their business are all pretty good.
I didn't really enjoy bitter melon since I was young, obviously because of its bitter taste. However, my mum used to prepare the bitter melon dish at home because she loved it; and she knew I would definitely skip the dish and she would specially prepare extra dishes for me. After grew up, and especially after spent certain years in oversea, I started to enjoy bitter melon; but still it's not my favorite.
Bitter melon, 苦瓜 also known as bitter gourd, and has a special name of Momrodica Charantia. it contains rich of Calcium, Potassium, vitamins and fiber, it's very good healthy source for human body; in Chinese, we also call it 凉瓜, because it can clam your body temperature, lower the blood sugar and blood pressure and even can cure the diabetes and cancers.
Let's get back to bitter melon soup, I had tried a few different bitter melon soup restaurants among JB and KL; among them there are certain franchise bitter melon soup restaurants and still maintain pretty good quality; believe it or not, I think the best bitter melon soup is still in my hometown, Senai-Kulai, JB.
The soup taste very strong of porky taste, and because the cook put a lot of pig's bone and pork to boil the soup, not only that; some are even put lot of pig's ingests into the soup,  therefore soup taste very sweet and rich, but thanks to the bitter melon, it removes the grease of the pork, and bring a mildly bitter and dry taste of the soup, make you feel a variety vibe of the soup and keep you no-stop drinking it.
Not only the bitter melon soup, the must-order food from menu is the deep fried pork 炸肉, the fresh three layers pork was well-marinated and covered by the flour evenly; placed into the hot oil deep fried until golden brown; crispy from the outside, juicy and tender in the inside. Although it's very simple dish, but it's a very skillful, sometimes, if the pork is not marinated well- enough, it'll be too salty; and the temperature of the oil has to be careful as well, otherwise the dish will be ruined.

There are still plenty of choices from menu, I didn't take photo every time I visit these restuarants. this is the picture that my friend ordered the Abalone mushroom in ginger and onion sauce 姜葱鲍鱼菇. it was pretty good as well. Another dish is the Steamed three layers pork and yam 芋头扣肉, the yam was welly- cooked, but the pork is too dry or hard to chew, anyway, the apparently the pork is not too fresh, and can taste it was defrosted from refrigerator previously; worth to mention for this dish is the sauce was very good, it goes well with the plain rice.
Anyway, should try the other dishes if I have chances.