Delectable! Looks like nature took a cooking course in the far east, serving up a feast for the eyes if not the stomach, in this case.
You can see the seeds right through their casing? Is that why it explodes, because it is so ephemeral? Are the curly parts the segments of two exploded seed pods, with one intact pod in the middle?
Really, it's making me hungry for snow peas or sumthin!