Garlic Stir Fried Bitter Melon (蒜茸苦瓜)

Ingredients:
1. ku gua (苦瓜) bitter melon 2 Ib
2. Da suan (大蒜) garlic 3 claves
3. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 3 slices
4. Qing cong (青葱) green onion 60 g
5. Sheng chou (生抽) soy sauce 1 tbp
Seasoning: pinch of salt
Cooking methods:
1. Wash the bitter melon, remove the seeds and cut the cucumber into slices, pinch 1
teaspoon of table salt on the cucumber and mix well, let it sit for 1 hour, then
rinse the salt from the cucumber.
2. Peeled garlic, cut into small pieces
3. Wash green onion and cut into about 2 inches long
4. Put 2 tbsp of vegetable oil into the hot pan, then put in ginger, garlic and onion
and stir-fried about 10 seconds
5. Add in black fungus and white fungus and soy sauce and stir-fried about 1 minute
6. Add in celery and stir-fried about 1 minute
7. Add ¼ cup of water and cover the lid until boiling
8. Pinch of salt and serve
Function:
1. Calming the liver and
2. clearing away heat, brighten the eyes
3. relieve thirsty
4. treatment of heat stroke, diabetes