We hired a lady cook from quezon especially for my daughter’s birthday, as requested by my mother-in-law. She made this dish, the difference is, the pork is cut menudo style and cooked menudo style sans the tomato sauce. And instead of the pineapple you listed here, she used pickle juice and pickle slices, and then steamed it.

I don’t know the exact ingredients or spices (the lady would’nt divulge, it’s her secret recipe you see…) , but I think your recipe is a modified version of hardinera turned into meatloaf.

Which is fine of course, everybody can tinker recipes to make it their own.

I would try your version. thanks for posting!