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| <div style="display:none">fiogf49gjkf0d</div>Eating Strange Foods by Soo-Kyun Kim Eating strange foods is normal with different countries most especially in Asian countries, for example, eating frog, snakes, cockroach and many more. If you will ask foreign countries about this, they may have the same reaction, they may say no, but some of them may say yes. Why yes, ? the reason is that they are curious and they just want to experience. In Asian countries it is not the experience or being curious about it, but it is because it is part of their culture. Have you ever tried eating a different kind of egg?? In the Philippines it is actually one of their traditional food. It is called "BALUT", they may say it is not good but it's very delicious. They say looks can be deceiving, if you will try to look at the BALUT, you may not eat it because of the features. Yes it looks very disgusting but it taste very good. This picture is "BALUT". A very special egg that Filipino loves to eat. Not only in the Philippines even Vietnamese, Cambodian and Chinese like it. In the Philippines, BALUT is being served as an appetizers in restaurants, cooked adobo style, fries in omeletles or even used as filling in baked pastries. Chinese traders and migrants are said to have brought the idea of eating fertilize duck eggs to the Philippines. However, the knowledge and craft of balut-making has been localize by the balut-makers. Today balut production has not been mechanized in favor of the traditional production by hand. In making BALUT, a fertilized duck eggs are kept warm in the sun and stored in baskets to retain warmth. After mine days, the eggs are held to a light to reveal the embryo inside. Approximately eight days later the balut are ready to be cooked, sold and eaten. Vendors sell cooked balut from buckets of sand used to retain warmth, with by small packets of salt. Duck eggs that are not properly developed after nine to twelve days are sold as "PENDY", which look, smell and taste similar to a regular hard-boiled egg. In Filipino cuisine, these are occasionally beaten and fried, similar to scrambled eggs and served with a vinegar dip. I have asked some Filipino about why do they like eating balut, and the only answer is very simple "DELICIOUS". They believe that eating balut can strengthen their immunity everytime they eat it. Others may like it but they are also worried about their blood temperature, why? because balut contains high cholesterol. |
