You Tried Oysters, Now How About Balut?

p3skyking

January 11, 2007 04:23

Once on a layover in Manila, I was touring the town at night and drinking Red Horse. A local Patriarch asked me to join him on his porch to shoot the breeze.

A street vendor came by with some baluts and Triple X (his name) called him up to buy one. Being about half loaded and never having tried one, I too got one. Triple X expressed amazement that a round eye would try one and happily told me how to peel the shell and put a pinch of salt into it.

After I drank the broth, I started chomping. It was good! Like crunchy chicken soup. I even got another.

So how many have tried these tasty little delicacies?

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  whiteclouder

  January 11, 2007 05:20

  THANKS P3, I just puked on my keyboard.[xx(]
  
  Clouder..

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  tapwater

  January 11, 2007 06:19

  ...I have never, ever been drunk enough that I could be talked into eating a balut. I could be so drunk as to be drowning on my own vomit, and still wouldn't eat a balut. I could be.....well, no, never. I have certain limits.

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  He Dog

  January 11, 2007 06:22

  Don't even know what it is, I would probably try it, unless it is a roach.

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  tapwater

  January 11, 2007 06:28

  quote:Originally posted by He Dog
  Don't even know what it is, I would probably try it, unless it is a roach.
  
  
  ...I believe it's a duck egg that has been allowed to develop to a point just before hatching.

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  He Dog

  January 11, 2007 06:32

  Well, maybe not. As I have no plans to be nearer the Philippines than the Northern Territory, it probably will not be an issue.

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  Don McManus

  January 11, 2007 06:35

  I got the shell opened, looked inside and barely managed to keep down most of an evening's worth of San Magoo. Was too chicken to go any further.

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  Cubslover

  January 11, 2007 06:43

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut
  
  
  
  Duck that!

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  Mercury

  January 11, 2007 07:59

  I've eaten everything from chicken guts on a stick to pig's head soup (with brains and eyeballs) but I could NOT eat balut! Something about that tiny baby chicken just stopped me from doing it. And I LOVE chicken! I shouldn't have looked at it, I guess.
  
  Merc

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  zipperzap

  January 11, 2007 08:01

  Re: Balut
  Yep, CindyBar on Gordon street, at Subic used to serve it - yummy! I had forgotten that! Nothing like eating an aborted duck fetus! Thanks for the memories![:D]

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  65gto389

  January 11, 2007 10:33

  Interesting; I guess it would sort of taste like chicken. [;)]

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  0341USMC

  January 11, 2007 10:36

  been there and done that. taste like ass[8D]

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  bpost

  January 11, 2007 13:43

  quote:Originally posted by Mercury
  I've eaten everything from chicken guts on a stick to pig's head soup (with brains and eyeballs) but I could NOT eat balut! Something about that tiny baby chicken just stopped me from doing it. And I LOVE chicken! I shouldn't have looked at it, I guess.
  
  Merc
  
  
  What the hell; Do you have eyes in yer chin???[:D][;)][:D]
  
  No need to look the little peeper in the eye as you gulp it down.

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  acdodd

  January 11, 2007 14:00

  I have been so drunk I fell down the stairs at the New Jolo.
  I sent a new Chief to the top floor of the 007 club on Shore Patrol.
  But I have never been so drunk I would eat a balut.
  The smell would kill a buzzard on a gut wagon.
  I would like to return to Olongapo just to see what it is like now.
  AC

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