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  Gac fruits

 

Vietnam

Ripe, orange Spiny Bitter Gourds, known in Vietnamese as gac, are  used to prepare a dish of sticky rice known as xoi gac (fig.). When still unripe, they are yellow in colour and have larger spikes (fig.).

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