Hami melons have been cultivated in China for thousands of years ... For anyone else who’s a melon fanatic, there’s one more variety that should be on your radar, if it isn’t already.

In Chinese cuisine, "gwa" - usually translated as squash or melon - covers a wide variety of vegetables and fruits such as watermelon, fuzzy melon, winter melon, Chinese okra and bitter squash.

"the ignorant public," to create "the ignorant melon-eating public." Although the phrase had strong political overtones at first, its adoption by China's internet fandoms smoothed its edges.

Research has shown it has healing properties; one study suggests that an oily homogenized form of bitter melon helped heal an injured rabbit. If your mum always tells you how healthy bitter melon ...