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