Balut the Video. Rated SG (Sorta Gross).
Balut the Video: A story about a guy who walks into a restaurant and says to the waiter, "Feed us duck."
The waiter brings him duck fetus.
Badoom! These are the jokes, folks. These are the jokes. I'm here all week.
(Video: Steven Liu)
eat Balut (duck fetus) on Vimeo
The waiter brings him duck fetus.
Badoom! These are the jokes, folks. These are the jokes. I'm here all week.
(Video: Steven Liu)
eat Balut (duck fetus) on Vimeo
Comments
forget atkins. ditch south beach. the balut diet will burn those pounds off without any effort. you'll look like lindsay lohan or nicole ritchie in no time. all without the heroin chic side effects.
kirk,
nothing is better than 'red asphalt'. nothing!
I probably would love balut if I grew up with it. There's plenty of stuff that I eat that make people wonder "how on earth do you put that in your mouth?" To that I say, "Easy. Open wide and say, 'Ahhh!'"
I want somebody to do a sequel to 'Red Asphalt'. Maybe call it 'Balut Asphalt'. Maybe not.
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Unbelievable!
I have been wanting to try that stuff for ages. I've seen it in the markets but didnt think it would be the same. Panorama City is only 20 mins east of me, I think I may hit it up and drag some unsuspecting friends (maybe even my vegetarian girlfriend!) mwahaha!
BTW, Typhoon (a restaurant in the Santa Monica airport) serves insects. Another genre of food I want to try. CitySearch.com has a brief review. Check it out. I plan to one day.
I've had three vegetarian girlfriends. And they knew of my exotic eating habits before we started to date. What makes veg girls date boys like us? Are we the ultimate bad boys for veg girls? Odd couples.
I've been to Typhoon already last Halloween and had three kinds of bugs not including the cricket martini. It was really cool. Anyway, check out my review.
you are so missing out, dude. you look really pathetic eating it, too. the best part isn't the chick itself but the yellow part.
Thanks, now you see why I was a little repulsed. Tell me where to get one that's properly aged and I'll check it out.
Btw, I always look pathetic eating. Watch the "live tentacles" video.
what i do is, when i eat the chick part, is to shower it with salt (iodised is much better) and then put it all in my mouth, and then savour. you have got to NOT let the images of a live chick get in the way of the pleasure. it took me a while to get this down pat, but recently, after your podcast and listening to the radio interview, i ate one with my husband and we really wondered why people would not find this dem piece of egg yummeh. i keep the yellow for last. sometimes the white part is edible for me, but the last one i had wasn't so i just left it.
back in manila, i didn't worry about supplies, as it were. i would drive around until i saw the familiar kerosene lamp of the vendors peeping from the basket and get it for only 9 pesos tops (it's around $1: Ps. 55 now), so too cheap to be true. here in europe, where everything is super duper regulated, my balut comes all the way from the netherlands, but it is a big egg and when you heat it properly in a pan of water and then let cool for a couple of minutes (tops, no more), it's good enough to go.
agreed. once you get over the gross out factor of balut, it's not bad. i actually sorta liked it...sorta.
as for balut, i had my encounter with it 4 years ago while visiting kodiak, ak. it was served by this filipino family i was staying with. and looking at your video, i think your chosen eggs were a little over ripe. both eggs i had actually had some sort of soup in it, which was very very delicious. as for the chick, not too feathery, just nicely crunchy. but yeah, the yolk looked nasty...with all them bulging purple and green blood vessels...yet w/ a little sprinkle of NaCl, everything was good.
but i doubt i would ever pay to eat it.
i had the kind of balut i was served. you had the version you ate. unless we had the same kind than there really is no way to properly compare our experiences.
dsaeykim,
thanks for listening on the radio and thanks for your thoughtful comment.
It's also supposed to be quite healthy and the locals said it had some sort of aphrodesiatic (sp?) properties - or at least it enhanced a males ability to do the wild thing.
balut is viagra in a shell. ;-)