If you love the Filipino mung bean soup (Munggo Gisado) then you will love this even more, think of it as a fancy version of that classic soup, infused with fragrant dried shrimps and crispy pork belly cooked alongside creamy chickpeas and bitter gourd shoots, it’s an explosion of Filipino vegetable flavours on your mouth.
I made this one time when a close friend of mine gave me some bitter gourd shoots and chickpeas, such a weird combination together but I was challenged to use them both in one dish. I had some wild ideas initially but ended up with a soup dish which is this one.