I also like chayote... But normally I prefer it stir fried.
I the past it's rare for me to find it on Germany, so I always had to substitute it with turnip cabbage.
It's not the same but the texture and the taste is quite similar.
But I still miss chayote anyway 😜, cos it's so delicious just like what you described there 😜.
Now I can easily find chayote again here in the Philippine...
But then suddenly I miss the turnip LOL. Especially since one can even eat it raw as salad.

It seems that's just how human beings are...
They're always yearning what they can't have or at least those that's rather hard to get,
and forget to cherish what they already had 😁.