You can eat them together.
There is a dish called Plum, Honey, Bitter Melon and Tomato Cup, which is made with these two vegetables.
The steps are as follows:
Ingredients: appropriate amount of salt, 1 bitter melon, 2 tomatoes, 1 spoon of honey, 2 spoons of plum powder, 5 perilla leaves.
1. To process the bitter melon, remove the stems, cut it in half from the middle, and scrape off the pulp.
2 Cut the bitter melon into shreds and put it into a bowl for later use.
3 Pickle the bitter melon, add appropriate amount of salt to the bowl, rub the salt and bitter melon shreds thoroughly and mix well.
4. Blanch the bitter gourd shreds, squeeze and knead the bitter gourd shreds with your hands until the juice comes out. Then put the squeezed bitter melon shreds into a pot of boiling water and blanch.
5 Take out the blanched bitter melon shreds and put them into ice water to chill.
6 Cut the perilla leaves into small pieces and set aside.
7 Squeeze out the water from the chilled shredded bitter melon and put it into a sealed jar, then add minced perilla leaves, 2 tablespoons of plum powder, and 1 tablespoon of honey.
8 Put the lid on the sealed jar, and then shake the ingredients in the jar thoroughly. Then put the shaken shredded bitter melon into the refrigerator for twenty minutes.
9. Make a tomato bowl. Cut the tomatoes in half and remove the flesh and place them on the finished plate.
10 Serve on a plate, take out the refrigerated bitter melon shreds, and then put the bitter melon shreds into the tomato bowl.
11After setting it up, you can serve it.