WYEI? (Would you eat it?)

C'mon man!

Kinda like 'soft shell duck'. No I would not eat that.

Is that what they call a thousand year egg?

Balut? Sure I'd eat it. It's still duck

No

no

i actually have eaten that. i was in high school and had begged my mom to go abroad. she told me i was too picky of an eater and that i had to start eating everything in front of me (bc she was worried id offend the other cultures by turning my nose up at their meals). well two days later, we are at our filipino friends' house for dinner.

one of the things there was balut. someone offered it to me. i said "yes please". my mom said "you do NOT have to eat that." i was stubborn and wanted to prove a point.

i ate it. and kept it down til i got home. and, went abroad that summer. totally worth it.

it's delicious...a little salt and pepper and a few mint leaves.

Utterly repulsive. I would throw up watching someone eat that.

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Compare it to something in an American diet.

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The broth of the egg has a subtly sweet chicken soup flavor while the fetus taste like liver and the egg yolk like a hard boiled egg. There's two types of balut, duck and chicken, I prefer chicken baluts.

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it's cheap street food

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Here in the states, oriental markets sell uncooked balut for about 75cents an egg.