re: My first experience with balut

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Did you eat the embryos or throw them away and basically just eat a boiled egg?

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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.