This is very popular in my country! It’s consider a medicinal vegetable! Because it’s very bitter we would dusk the chopped bits in salty water fir a few minutes a d rinse off!

Small pieces like yours would be cooked with a few eggs! It’s called Mara-pad-kai.
Mara is bitter lemon, pad means frying, Kai means eggs!

We also chop the Mara into small tubes and we put seasoned minced pork inside these tubes. Boil water in a pot, add all the salt and pepper, put these stuffed tubes into the pot! Boil till the minced pork is cooked, say 5 minutes! Served with chopped coriander sprinkles! It’s very good to detox the body with excessive Yang energy!

Cheers.