Hopia Baboy, Palit Mo?

[MikeLigalig.com]

Hopia Baboy, Palit Mo?

[Lorenzo]

This is my cousin Stephen's favorite snack.

[Lollapalooza]

my favorite is Tipas Ube Hopia...

[Lorenzo]

he he he, i cannot lie, lami bitaw ning hopia baboy , especially when you have a nice cold glass of coca cola with it.

[Lorenzo]

my favorite is Tipas Ube Hopia...

lami bitaw na, jenneth...

[chicogon]

I love hopia baboy!!!

[islander]

di lagi ko familiar sa tipas nga brand... nagdako lang gyod ko sa la fortuna brand sa cebu nga tops gyod ever since, from hopia to salbaro.  nakaapas-apas ang eng bee.  bitaw, di pod ko kasabot sa baboy nga hopia; a bit sweetened, and i never saw a sliver of pork.  i suspect nga ang baboy ani ang mantika ra.  

but i'm partial to ube and pandan hopia (the violet and green ones, as pictured).  i turn to hopia kun kaawayon ko ni banana republic.  pun-on nako akong baba, da, di lagi kalihok akong apapangig kay nitapot ang hopia sa alingagngag.

[hubag bohol]

Hopia Baboy
by Marketman


How’s this for a blast from the past? As a child, I LOVED hopia with munggo or mung bean filling. I don’t recall ube hopias in the late 60′s and early 70′s. I suppose for a kid, the sweetish buttery munggo filling was as good as a protein rich beans were going to get. Fresh hopia purchased on occasional Sunday “paseos” to Binondo with our family were definitely a treat. As much as I loved munggo hopia, I absolutely despised hopia baboy. There was just something about this savory concoction that was a real turn-off. And now that I think about it some more, I think it was a particular Sunday, when in my single digits, I tried this version of hopia, and I got what felt like the most repulsive chunky piece of mushy slow-cooked fat in one of my bites. Without asking anyone, I just assumed it was solid fat, and I decided then and there that I would never again ate a hopia baboy… But here’s the real rub, it turns out that there isn’t much baboy in hopia baboy at all! It seems many recipes call for kundol or wintermelon cubes slow cooked in pork fat or lard. Or in the absence of kundol, sliced onions are sometimes used as an alternative. Now that I know that, maybe that silly piece of fat was in fact a very mushy piece of lard infused kundol!