Don't gag, please! And if you do...well, I'll be eatin' some of this stuff anyway - with a smile on my face. It's a (formerly) developing duck embryo that's been boiled, and it's not bad! It's especially good with beer or lambanog (coconut booze).
Where I live, it can easily be found on the street, but I usually just wait for a guy who rides his bike around my neighborhood yelling "Balut! Balut!" He usually comes by after another guy rides by selling tinapa (smoked fish).
Below is a picture of what it looked like just a few seconds before the picture above was taken. I'm not very good at cracking these things open, actually. They come whole.
Nice
Wow, I enjoy a lot of strange things....
but I'm not sure about this.
Nanjing has something similar. And, no, I have no courage to eat either version! I would have to be beyond drunk!
They say its an energy booster for macho men.