How to Eat Balut
Balut is Filipino street food made by hard-boiling a fertilized and incubated duck egg. This snack has become a very common and popular food throughout Southeast Asia, and custom dictates that the cooked embryo is eaten straight from the shell. The dish is becoming more popular in restaurants, but for the most part, balut is an inexpensive snack food that’s often consumed with beer. Because the eggs have been fertilized and incubated, they do contain a partially developed duck embryo. The longer the egg has incubated, the more developed the duck will be, but balut is always eaten when the bones are still soft enough to be eaten whole.