Cebu, Philippine Street Food: Balut

Roaming around the busy public market in Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines and eat different kinds of street foods. This is our Filipino living. Let's eat!

Balut is a common exotic food can be found everywhere in the Philippines. Often this kind of  food use as a challenge food for foreigner to eat.  A balut is a developing duck embryo that is boiled alive and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines.

At first look after you open the shell, it really looks disgusting especially when you are not familiar or it's you're first time to eat this kind of exotic food. The soup that's inside the egg is very delicious. To ease the "yucky" sensation when you eat it, a spicy vinegar would be the number 1 remedy when eating it. You would feel the bone and head crushing in your mouth and even the feather. This is how I eat...