Mung Bean Soup

There is nothing more Filipino than the favorite comfort food, the Mung Bean Soup or Monggo Soup. This is a perfect dish on cold, stormy days. Made from mung beans with ampalaya (bitter gourd) leaves, pork chunks, shrimps, and chicharon (pork cracklings). Some variations may have pork substitutes like fried fish chunks or dried dilis (type of small fish).