DISH RESEARCH · Snack
Binondo Hopia
Also known as: Filipino Hopia, Hopia
Flaky baked pastries filled with sweet mung-bean paste.
About Binondo Hopia
Bebs presents hopia as a Filipino snack traditionally filled with mung-bean paste and recalls buying it with her siblings as a child. This rendition uses the offered yellow mung beans inside the thin, flaky pastry.
Sugar sweetens both the bean filling and the dough. Lard is selected for the first dough, with shortening in the second; condensed milk is an optional addition to the mung-bean paste.
The two doughs form layered pastry around the filling. Each piece is shaped into a small round disc, baked and brushed with egg wash before its final browning, producing a compact filled snack.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Egg.
Optional additions: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Binondo Hopia
Bebs' Filipino munggo hopia with flaky pastry.
- Yellow mung beansFilling
- Condensed milkFilling · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- SugarSweetener
- All-purpose flourBase
- LardCooking medium
- ShorteningCooking medium
- SaltSeasoning
- EggFinish
- WaterLiquid
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Yellow mung beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual114 yellow option selected over red mung; full soak/boil method131, broad mung-bean candidate, exact whole/split cultivar unprovided.
- Condensed milk (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual115 optional dairy condensed milk; exact sweetening/product formula unprovided.; Ingredient page link pending verification or catalogue review
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual116 filling and122 dough, consolidated.
- All-purpose flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual117/121/126 flour, author Bebs reply216 explicitly plain or all-purpose for this recipe; broader wheat-flour candidate, filling and two dough allocations consolidated.
- Lard: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual123 lard option selected for dough1, not substituted for required shortening in dough2.
- Shortening: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual127 dough2, full fat source/product formula unprovided; no inferred Milk/Soy.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual129 mandatory egg wash.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual122 dough/129 eggwash and131 soak/refresh/boil, all explicit water allocations consolidated.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Philippines
- PhilippinesCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Filipino Cuisine
- Filipino-Chinese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.