The other night, our Filipino hosts offered us a local delicacy: BALUT!
A balut is a fertilized duck or chicken egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside.
It is boiled and eaten from the shell.
It is boiled and eaten from the shell.
Yum.
Not.
The Filipino staff at the YMC grew up eating balut.
It took us a little convincing…
Joy drank the juice – tastes like chicken. Sharon couldn’t believe it had bones!
I wondered if salt would help. And I actually could only bite off some of the yolk. Maybe next time …
Click here to view a video of the occasion. It might take a while to load.
You’ll hear squeals of disgust and dares as Joy tries to eat it.
Bon appetit!
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