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re: My first experience with balut

Posted on 10/13/17 at 6:49 pm to
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
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Posted on 10/13/17 at 6:49 pm to
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Would you eat it?

I'm an adventurous eater. Not no, but frick no.

Did you eat the embryos or throw them away and basically just eat a boiled egg?
Posted by Stadium Rat
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Posted on 10/13/17 at 7:40 pm to
My dad was like Andrew Zimmern - he would try anything. But if he knew some people eat it, he'd try it even if it didn't look good.

He cooked eels from the crab trap, Lake Pontchartrain clams (gross because of the dredging in the lake at the time), raw crawfish and shrimp - all kinds of things he came across.

Pier One used to have an imported food section. As kids we'd give him gifts of chocolate-covered ants, chocolate-covered baby bees, kangaroo tail soup, fried crickets (in a can), snails and anything else they sold.
This post was edited on 10/13/17 at 7:46 pm
Posted by Degas
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Posted on 10/14/17 at 12:05 am to
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Did you eat the embryos or throw them away and basically just eat a boiled egg?


I ate the whole thing. I only pulled the second one out to get a pic of what it looked like. It really tasted like a good duck egg yolk of course and the embryo didn't really have a strong taste at all...rather good when eaten with the Rau Ram and the salt/pepper with lime juice. The texture wasn't what I thought it would be. I almost expected a mouthful of bones and feathers, which it was not. I did get slight resistance from some underdeveloped bones, but I would say that eating a whole sardine has more of a bone crunch. It was very subtle.
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