How o Eat Balut: A Study in Cultural Differences. (2300 hits)
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Submitted by <baking_Lady> (View user info) at 2005-04-21 02:40:43 EDT
Balut is a fertilised egg with a partially deveolped Mallard duckling inside. Balut is a very nutritious snack food which most Filipinos appreciate. However, forigners are skeptical about trying one.
People call it a balut because the egg is hatched in a home-scale hatchery called a balutan. Itik, the mother duck, does not sit on her eggs until the ducklings break their egg shell. Humans have to hatch them by placing them in these balutans.
1. Take a freshly boiled balut in one hand.
2. Make sure you have the "flat" bottom of the balut facing you and tap it lightly on any hard surface until you see hairline crack form on its surface.
3. Remove bits of shell until you have a cavity the size of a penny.
4. Inside the cavity you will find a paper-thin film of white tissue. Remove this.
5. Drop in a pinch of rock salt, place the opening to your lips, tip your head back and slurp up the broth. Delicious.
6. Widen the cavity by removing more bits of shell until you have enough exposed to be able to bite off a sizeable chunk of the balut. Don't forget to sprinkle more rock salt.
7. Go on eating until you get to the bato (rock) or the hard white portion. Discard.
8. When you get to the bottom, there will be a little more broth left over. Drop in a small pinch of salt and drink up.
Here is a picture of my friend Tam eating a balut during my trip to the Phillipines last December
User Reviews
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-04-23 03:14:57 EDT (#)
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Honestly,i watch those people eat all kinds of revolting shit, it makes me sick to the stomach,thank christ my wife is a vegetarian and we eat normal.
Chicken guts, raw blood from the pig ,(big delicacy)chicken heads with the feathers on .Dogs are a great hit in the northern islands, and man you gotta see the dogs before they are dead,poor creatures with mange and skinny like a jewish p.o.w.and it goes on .Nope leave me out of it .and the street food,hangs on the sticks of bamboo before they barby it, for days the flies crawl on it infest it and then its cooked and served ,"Deli Bellie" is rife from the partaking of street food.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-04-23 02:23:22 EDT (#)
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I got to "partially deveolped Mallard duckling" and vowed never to eat again.
Submitted by Eddain (user info) at 2005-04-23 02:18:27 EDT (#)
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balut's an asian delicacy as well, and i find it quite delicious (i'm vietnamese/laotian)
the yolk is best served with salt and pepper
same with the duck
and man, that broth is pure heaven
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-04-21 11:33:53 EDT (#)
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sorry but that's fucking nasty
Submitted by UberGirl (user info) at 2005-04-21 11:25:31 EDT (#)
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I don't think that wouls taste very good. The feathers would get stuck.
Submitted by MarthaStewart (user info) at 2005-04-21 11:06:53 EDT (#)
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here is more information on Filipino cuisine
http://www.globalpinoy.com/pinoyhealth/ph_nutrition/NU042103.htm
Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2005-04-21 09:15:54 EDT (#)
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Someone been watching Survivor???
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-04-21 09:13:36 EDT (#)
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Wow, that looks fucking disgusting.
Tubgirl is something that you'd probably rather not see. If your curiosity gets the better of you, visit http://www.tubgirl.com - but not if you're at work.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-04-21 06:59:18 EDT (#)
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Why is missfibble running around cocking up your +2 streak?
Submitted by missflibble (user info) at 2005-04-21 06:49:47 EDT (#)
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at uni I'd eat anything for a bet.
that includes a tadpole (polliwog?), frogspawn, various flies and half a jar of marmite.
bear in mind I was very very very drunk at the time.
can I find these uckie things in the uk? go on! I really want to gross out my other half! he can't even watch me eat shell-on prawns.
Submitted by dwr_budr (user info) at 2005-04-21 06:31:29 EDT (#)
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Ugh... Who the fuck would think to eat a fetus ? (Well, a half developed fetus) Some shit's better left alone...
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-04-21 05:34:09 EDT (#)
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I ate some of these when I was in country during WWII
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2005-04-21 05:23:40 EDT (#)
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All kinds of nasty, but that's what I thought about a bunch of other things before I tasted em.
I'd give it a bash. But thanks for the info, I'd never heard of it before...
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2005-04-21 04:32:12 EDT (#)
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That is just gross.
Submitted by DerivableZero (user info) at 2005-04-21 04:23:20 EDT (#)
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That's very disgusting but at the same time very informative and interesting.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-04-21 03:26:15 EDT (#)
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Sound tasty. I like duck, why not?
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-04-21 03:16:34 EDT (#)
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Yessss, i see them eat this shit everyday, it makes me sick just to watch.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-04-21 03:09:42 EDT (#)
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You and "Martha Stewart" need to have a showdown. Or would that be like Superman and Clark Kent? Hmmm?
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-04-21 03:02:06 EDT (#)
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I saw Balut on some show about delicacies around the world. Freaked me clean out. Then, I looked online and there are T-shirts that say "I *heart* Balut" and "Got Balut?" on them and stuff. Wow. Just... ugh...
Crunch!
Submitted by baking_Lady (user info) at 2005-04-21 02:44:15 EDT (#)
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I want my dollar back from when I put tubgirl up here and you took it down within an hour
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