Snake gourd can be used as a staple food, fried, cold mixed and steamed. It can also be made into dishes with other ingredients, such as fried snake gourd with shredded pork with pepper, snake gourd with garlic oyster sauce, snake gourd laver soup, etc. it can also be chopped and mixed with other ingredients to form fillings, such as snake gourd pig meat fillings, snake gourd onion fillings, etc. How to eat snake melon the fruit of snake melon is long cylindrical, green when young, with pale stripes, orange yellow when mature, and the flower and fruit period is in the late summer and autumn every year.
Snake melon is cultivated in both the north and the south of China. It is native to India. There are white and green stripes on the surface of the melon, like a white snake. The surface of the ripe melon is red and green stripes, like a red snake, so it is named.
Snake melon mainly takes its tender fruit as a vegetable. Its tender leaves and stems are also edible. The meat is soft and has a slight odor. However, it can be removed after cooking. It has certain edible and medicinal value. （SheGuaZenMeChi）