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Balut (Or "Balot") is one of the Philippines' real native culinary delicacy that is sold every where in the streets. It is pretty much a duck abortion. It has to be in the top of some of the most exotic things I have ever eaten in my life. Balot is an aprodhesiac! Of course I had to try it !
What makes balot special is that it is not simply an egg with the white and the yoke. It actually has a half-incubated chick inside it.
Balot is akin to an aprodhesiac; why else would it be sold at night time by wandering salesmen shouting "BA - LUUT!" Of course eggs have that obvious fertility symbolic connection but balut is also considered to be strengthening - providing a burst of protein to replenish lost energy after an amorous encounter... The Filipino equivalent to post loving pizza.
Balut is eaten during the drinking sessions. It is a form of "pulutan" - food eaten when drinking alcohol. Recent studies by scientists confirm the importance of eating high protein foods when drinking alcohol as opposed to sugary or high carbohydrate foods. The visual grossness of Balut might also be stimulating to people lost in a beer haze. Certainly many foreigners need to be in this state before they feel ready to partake of this particular Filipino delicacy.
Filipinos love the shock value of Balot. They take every opportunity to dare foreigners to eat it and consume it teasingly in their presence. I had to try it twice cuase I was smashed the first time........ here are the pictures.....
Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Dec 12 2004, 11:08 AM I have a friend that bought a house on one of the golf courses there though..he loves it out there.I hear though that half the year it pisses down.And something like 1 in 4 of the population is in the sex industry?
Yes and no, there's a rainy season of about 4 months when it will rain really hard for one or two hours a day. But it's very hot and it kind of cools the city down, plus it's better cloudy than having full blast tropical sun all day.
Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Dec 12 2004, 05:08 PM I nearly bought.... well a knocking shop in phuket once with some friends...but we thought we would be robbed blind so passed.
I have a friend that bought a house on one of the golf courses there though..he loves it out there.I hear though that half the year it pisses down.And something like 1 in 4 of the population is in the sex industry?
Lol
1 in 4?
Everyone there has a price......including policemen as Timon will know.
I had a regular taxi driver there..... when i first met him he took great pride in showing me pics of his wife and kids.
Then one night when i was shall we say a little tipsy as we pulled up to Montien Hotel he asked me if i wanted him to come to my room for a massage lol
Needless to say..... i declined.
Timon - How much weight did you lose when u went there and did u get it back?
Serge , have the ducks tongues next time you are in a chinese restaurant.
Not to my taste.Has like a little cartelidge thing in the niddle.They give you a bowl of about 50 of the suckers.
I love Salt Fish , can't remember exactly what is in it.But here in Vancouver very few guilo like it.You gotta try it...really nice.Like an anchovie,pork and sardine mix.
Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Dec 12 2004, 11:22 AM Serge , have the ducks tongues next time you are in a chinese restaurant.
Not to my taste.Has like a little cartelidge thing in the niddle.They give you a bowl of about 50 of the suckers.
I love Salt Fish , can't remember exactly what is in it.But here in Vancouver very few guilo like it.You gotta try it...really nice.Like an anchovie,pork and sardine mix.
I had duck tongues in NY...and wasn't impressed, the sauce wasn't up to par
;-(
as for salted fish with pork, ask Anthony the local name, he had it in Vancouver and recognised the dish immediatelly!
;-))
I once was in this restaurant in Vietnam where they bring a live king cobra to your table, cut it open and throw the beating heart into a shot glass of rice liqour and people swalyou are supposed to swallow the beating heart whole.
Originally posted by Timon@Dec 12 2004, 11:25 AM I once was in this restaurant in Vietnam where they bring a live king cobra to your table, cut it open and throw the beating heart into a shot glass of rice liqour and people swalyou are supposed to swallow the beating heart whole.
How exotic is that?
on my scale of food values!!!!
Timon, I swear to God, we DO have to hook up next time we are in South Asia!
Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Dec 12 2004, 11:22 AM
order "Pork pancakes with salted fish" instead.
It smells like a dead scunk, but melts in your mouth!
I eat crawfish and alligator..... does this count a crazy?
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Originally posted by Timon@Dec 12 2004, 08:25 AM I once was in this restaurant in Vietnam where they bring a live king cobra to your table, cut it open and throw the beating heart into a shot glass of rice liqour and people swalyou are supposed to swallow the beating heart whole.
How exotic is that?
I'd hit that!!
except of course I have vowed never to let alchohol pass my lips again.
12-12-2004
on my scale of food values!!!!
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