Balut – a boiled duck embryo from Cambodia
Do you fancy eggs? me to – just prefer to eat them before the embryo inside has a peck an feathers. The people in Cambodia apparently think differently, as a duck-egg-delicacy called balut is a great treat loved by the locals. The trick of preparing balut is to let the the embryo inside the egg to develop until the bird inside is nearly ready to see the daylight. When the embryo inside is right, the egg is boiled and served with a pich of salt on top.
The Cambodian locals enjoy their Balut normally as a night time snack, accompanied with a cold beer.
Source: wikipedia
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Wormbrain said,
March 25, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
I’d need several beers before I could begin to contemplate the horror of eating this thing.
Glenn said,
August 30, 2008 @ 10:39 am
I’ve had the pleasure of eating balut whenever I visit the Philippines. The two varieties are “late balut”, where the chick more developed, and “early balut”, which has a smaller chick embryo. I eat whats left of the yellow yolk, which tastes a bit like hard boiled chicken egg yolk, and drink the fluid from the amniotic sac. Pinch of salt, gulp of beer. Not bad! Being an American, I was curious about what my Filipino friends had to say on this matter. Most won’t touch it! Go figure..
vietboi said,
September 7, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
we have this in the US, visit Orange County and I will show you
darlene said,
November 21, 2008 @ 1:19 am
This stuff isn’t bad, it taste’s pretty good. We asians love duck eggs, not just cambodians either. Its not gross, it’s only gross if your grew up in a western society.
Revenge_4_Souls_666 said,
January 11, 2009 @ 10:21 pm
This is simply DISGUSTING!!! Cruel, Horrific thing…poor Ducks, they are intelligent and sensitive pets! .”people” who eat this things are very sick and miserable. only SHIT!
Go Vegan!
Anonymous said,
February 4, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
scary
Anonymous said,
February 20, 2009 @ 6:20 pm
Ew!!! That is just sick and wrong!!!
KJ' said,
March 4, 2009 @ 3:04 am
This, from today, IS the new way of LIFE!
Lissa said,
March 22, 2009 @ 9:04 am
wth?? this us just cruel and wrong. fking animal abusers!
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November 10, 2009 @ 10:48 am
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Andres said,
March 3, 2010 @ 1:18 am
This is BY FAR the most disgusting piece of crap EVER
hitlerman said,
April 9, 2010 @ 7:14 am
balut is from the Philippines, not Cambodia
aggouri said,
August 26, 2010 @ 12:32 am
i feel that anyone who would eat this is RETARDED DISGUSTING COMPARED TO CANNIBALS
fourgotten said,
January 26, 2011 @ 5:58 am
Since I first heard of this food as a child, I’ve often wondered what it tastes like.
And these people who call this animal abuse or compare it to cannibalism… I hope, for the sake of their integrity, that they are all vegan/vegetarian… otherwise, they are just hypocrites. “Oh noes! It’s meat that I won’t eat, therefore it MUST be sick and wrong!”
Vendetta said,
February 8, 2011 @ 1:09 am
Anyone freaking out over this and still drives their fat ass to mcdonalds every day for a slice of abused cow on bread makes me want to shoot myself.
I’d try it.
Shirley said,
February 19, 2011 @ 1:58 pm
I eat meat, but this is gross. Just LOOK at the darn thing. EEEEWL
Anne said,
March 19, 2011 @ 7:11 pm
I just eat the yellow and white thing. I just can’t eat that bird. I don’t get why people are getting so angry saying it’s animal abuse. I’d understand if they were a Vegan, but if you’re not then don’t talk. You guys eat meat where an animal has been KILLED so that YOU can eat it. Just saying.
Laura said,
March 22, 2011 @ 9:09 am
Vegan and I think this is incredibly sad – just as sad as any other animal being killed for food, really. I mean, when you look up videos of the eggs being cracked on youtube, you can see the poor baby duck’s heart beating.
Dorian said,
April 1, 2011 @ 12:05 pm
I have eaten this because my husband is an adventurous eater and really wanted to try it. We also have Phillipino friends that say that is a great snack. We tried it at home after buying the eggs at a local asian market, and discovered that they taste like hard boiled egg. The duck itself tastes like dark chicken. For anyone out there that is concerned about how cruel it is, they should be complaining about boiled lobster as well. We do the same thing when we eat them. We also kill any animal we eat, so how is this any different???
Anonymous said,
June 11, 2011 @ 1:23 am
itss totally gross, not all asian love that thing,,, seriously ,, i am asian too.
Francesca said,
June 18, 2011 @ 5:48 am
Hi. My friend told me about this yesterday and I decided to look it up because I found it really disturbing. I am not a vegetarian, but I don’t east meat from places like mcdonald or cheap value meat. I like to know that the animal has at least had a decent life as I completely disagree with all the Maas farming which leads to animal ls being mistreated. So I was really shocked to hear people saying that this ‘delicase’ is acceptable- essensually is it not dunking a newly born chick into boiling water until it dies? I don’t understand- or is it not actually a chick yet? I understand that all cultures are different, but this is simply shocking!
Lynne said,
June 25, 2011 @ 7:39 pm
What happened to Nick Paine?
What about eggs and full-grown chickens and ducks? said,
July 4, 2011 @ 6:00 am
What difference does it make if a duck is still in it’s embryo state?
People eat eggs and people also butcher full grown ducks/chickens for food, so what difference does it make if the duck is in it’s in-between state?
If you’re gonna call this animal abuse, then you’d have to stop eating eggs and roasted ducks/chickens too, you know.
Anonymous said,
August 9, 2011 @ 10:41 pm
Wow. How would you like it if I took your baby out of your womb at 8 1/2 months and boiled it while its heart was still beating. That’s just cruel..
BAHA said,
November 16, 2011 @ 12:09 am
This ISN’T cruel . We kill cows, pigs, chicken and other things while they’re still alive, no difference. And there’s nothing wrong with eating it. How about you’re starving and there’s nothing to eat but that? Well you would end up eating it . And this is mainly from Phillipines not Cambodia . But try it before you go ranting on it . (;
jim said,
December 2, 2011 @ 9:58 am
i had this in laos. i was very very drunk and didnt know what i was eating.
ant said,
January 30, 2012 @ 12:31 pm
Read Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Polan before yall haters start judging other’s people’s cultures and food. The way we treat our livestock is inhumane. The way pate is made is inhumane. Fur coats, goose feather pillows… At the very least, people eat duck eggs for nutrients as opposed to fashion.
Ak said,
February 1, 2012 @ 2:23 am
Philippines , Cambodia, Vietnam all share the same delicacy. Sometimes duck sometimes chicken… I’d love to try except for fear that i would get diarrhea if its not fresh
mowhawk said,
February 1, 2012 @ 7:26 am
hey balut came from the philippines not combodia