Travel Eats: Balut (Duck Embryo) from Vietnam and the Philippines!

Balut, a developed duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in its egg. Really common in Southeast Asia and often served with beer.

Fertilized eggs from ducks and chickens, also known as balut, are essentially half-developed embryos… and they aren’t pretty. Find out how balut tastes and why this extremely disgusting-looking food is a delicacy in the Philippines in this episode of Why Would You Eat That? Who knew Filipino cooking contained the answer to the age-old debate, chicken vs. the egg? However, why would you eat it is still up for debate.

 

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