Balut

This is the famous "duck-embryo" delicasy called Balut. It is a very common street food in the Philippines. At night there are about 5-6 Filipinos along the street with their coolers and a little table for their customers to sit and enjoy this 12ph snack.

Add salt....just like a hard-boiled egg...

Open it up, inspect the poor little duck who ALMOST saw the light of day or felt the water under his webbed feet.

wikipedia defines the balut as follows:

A balut is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell.

Fertilized duck eggs are kept warm in the sun and stored in baskets to retain warmth. After nine days, the eggs are held to a light to reveal the embryo inside. Approximately eight days later the balut are ready to be cooked, sold, and eaten. Vendors sell cooked balut out of buckets of sand (used to retain warmth) accompanied by small packets of salt. Uncooked balut are rarely sold in Southeast Asia. In the United States, Asian markets occasionally carry uncooked balut eggs. The cooking process is identical to that of hard-boiled chicken eggs, and baluts are enjoyed while still warm.

Mommy says...."YUMM!"

See that liquid?? Down the hatch baby! That is the best....not that I would know! Just couldn't bring myself to try it!