Upo is called a bottle gourd in English because of its elongated shape. The plant has the scientific name Lagenaria siceraria. Its fruit is a very popular vegetable in the Philippines. You can simply sauté it with ground beef or pork or with shrimp to make ginisang upo, which literally means “sautéed bottlegourd.”
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