A. Neufeld but it is just a novelty. its also patently disgusting. i know phillipinos that were raised there that have never even heard of this crap and will not eat it. you can eat disgusting shit anywhere, like pig intestines aka chitlins, or sheep testicles, aka prairie oysters, here in america. it doesnt make it anything more than an oddity that only a select few people eat. just because people once did something out of desperation doesnt make it desirable, traditional, or healthy.
Abdul Karim its actually not that kind of gross its yummy and you dont like it because you haven't tasted it yet but i tasted it and its very yummy including the soup of it and pls dont be mad at me
There are way more Filipino food like sisig, banana cue, kaldereta, dried mangoes, chicharron, lumpia, etc. that we can offer to our visitors especially foreigners (not just balut, that most Filipinos don't eat). I get it, balut is part of our culture (especially in rural areas) but it doesn't help in promoting our cuisine. In result, ignorant people are stereotyping. This balut trend needs to stop. Most Filipinos don't even eat it. "When the only representations of your culture available are negative, it’s no surprise if some Filipinos internalize all that shaming."
When my family landed in Davao in 1990 I remember the first thing we were greeted with at the airport was Balut. Venders were selling it right outside. Followed by Durian. It was a culture shock for a little girl from Wisconsin.
I remember buying duck eggs in an Asian store one time, and the Asian man at the register asked, " Do you really want these "?? I took them home, and boiled them. Imagine my horror when I opened them, to find a baby duck inside !! 😳😳
Growing up with a Vietnamese dad and grandparents, they showed this stuff to me. I thought it was terrible at first cause I was little but when you eat it more and get used to it’s flavor it’s ends up being the best thing ever.
I was still too sensitive & too much as a child. Like even grapes for example. If there was a little 1 I didn't even want to eat that bc it was the "baby."
I'm Filipino, but I think this is disgusting.But y'all overreacting about the Dead Ducks embryo. But you never complained about eating chicken meat. WTF? Y'all little hypocrites..
Most people who eat chicken meat is either grilled, fried, or boiled. And its usually some parts of the chicken not the whole bird. So how is our preferred method of eating chicken make us hypocrites in anyway?
call me a crazy person or a disgrace to humanity but i like balut, and before u judge me. people eat caviar,cow tongue,frog,fermented shark,fermented soy beans,cooked animal privates,baked spiders,fish eyes,calamari,and even fried brains. so before u say something bad about me think about whats happening around you.
You don't call a delicacy of a certain country "disgusting". Calling something based on their culture and heritage disgusting is disrespectful. Its almost the same as insulting their country. For example, I may not like sushi or other raw stuff, but I won't call it disgusting simply because it doesn't suit my taste buds.
ivan paulo delos reyes is balut disgusting? yes? yeah it looks disgusting, is the taste disgusting? yes? its not! "do not judge a book by its cover" do not judge food by its looks
97% of the comments: The people with broccoli of a brain who just comment on how apparently “disgusting” it is 3%: people with actual brain cell who actually does know other cultures instead of criticizing it
i find it hillarious when people eat the wole chicken critize we asian eating a baby duck/chicken that haven't has concuios not only that, i find it funny when even westerner have exotic food like maggot chesse
Me and my girl are Filipino. Once we ate balut. I ate everything except the shell. She opened the shell, spilled the juice, ate the yolk and threw the rest. I was like "WTF?!?!?!?"
I'm not filipino, and this does shock me a bit, but when you think about it, you eat whole chickens too, there is no additional cruelty or wierdness in balut. Its just different food that different cultures eat and we should get used to people not eating the same thing around the world.
This is also a Vietnamese delicacy as well! I remember eating this as a little kid. I never really ate the duck though because I didn't like how it was so hairy XD
This is def 1 of those things where Nonasians: asians eat weird stuff! Other asians: ok but so do u. And not all of us. The other other asians: well ure just not acting Asian enough then. We practically disown u. :/ it really do be like that. It's that serious... but me either. I always wasted food. Couldn't get over what I was eating. I ate the yoke tho. The white part is too hard. I ended up having a mixed kid & she said she's fascinated by it. & wants to try the whole thing. Like right. I'll get on that... Lol, who would've thunkifth. Her ancestors would be so proud. 🙈 bc she didn't get that from me...
Balut sa puti ( pronounced as bah-loot sah pooh-tee) is the best kind of balut because it has richer taste and more succulent juice. From here in the Philippines especially in Pateros. A typical sized balut is about three inches in length. A "balut sa puti" on the other hand was a bit smaller and the duckling wasn't that visible as it was still wrapped inside its yolk. It was 14 to 17 days old from the moment it was hatched until being steamed/boiled prior to selling it to the market. The typical balut was 18 to 21 days old and the duckling was more developed and visible when you cracked open its egg. The latter was a preferred choice by many balut afficionados here being sold warm by balut vendors in their rattan baskets walking down the streets at night time shouting "Baluuuuutttt...Pennnnoooyyyy...Baluuuutttttt!!!" These folks are friendly. Some of them also sell crunchy "chicharon" One of the best balut experience one can have is on the busy sidewalks of Manila where Filipino street foodies are located. Currently, one balut costs about fifteen pesos or roughly around thirty-five cents (US$) . For those who doesn't know, there's another egg thats an alternative to balut and it's called penoy (pronounced as pen-oi) which has no duckling in it yet and looked similar to a boiled chicken egg. Penoy tastes like the yolk found inside balut and paired nicely with salt and vinegar like the balut.
the comments did not pass the vibe check…let’s come with a little bit of respect and understand the significant history that this food carries for my ancestors. This applies to all cuisines. Colonizers check yourself.
Aman, they are fertilized eggs -- so there is a duck actually inside. Regular eggs are not fertilized. They incubate the eggs until the duck inside is the right age, then they just boil it. It sort of tastes like duck stew. Just extra fresh and soft. Looks yucky, tastes heavenly.
That’s actually not true. According to animal researchers, some of these duckling fetuses are developed enough (have formed a neural tube) to where they can and do feel pain. Usually at about the 18th day I believe. Some are boiled earlier than that.
I used to keep a trio of ducks, and sold their eggs to a local Vietnamese market/restaurant. It was fairly rare, but every now and then the owner would request a batch of balut. I feel awful for what I did to those ducklings, even though the pay was good. But if anything makes up for it, know that the adults were very happy birds, who were treated more like family pets than livestock. They lived out their entire lifespan, and passed away gently from old age.
Host: "Now eat that" Girl with long curly hair: "Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha, No." Thank you. I haven't laughed this strongly since coming home from the hospital this forth of July week.
im a filipino and quite offended by the racy comments here. hey, no once forces you to eat this if you dont want to but it stops there. stop making irrational generalizations. the balut do not define the end all of what we are as filipinos. perhaps your shallow mindedness define yours.
My ex-boyfriend was filipino and balut is actually really really good. I don't know why some people are so rude about it. In the philippines, its like eating a hot dog. Fast and delicious. Some people are really ignorant and rude towards other cultures. I'm sorry you had to see that side of them.
I would definitely have to steel myself to eat balut, if I ever had the chance (I seriously would like to travel the world one day so I can experience other cultures). When I went to China, this restaurant had silk worms, young and adult, and only 5 (including me) out of our entire group tried it. It was actually a lot better than what I thought. (the younger silk worms are definitely better) I feel sad that others don't even try to give any of this stuff a try, and just knock it off for what it is. :( But yeah, I would have to steel myself to eat it. It the baby duck part that makes me cringe, I have a phobia of dead animals/things. Especially if their eyes are open, I always get freaked out.
People are rude about it because it is vial and disgusting and completely disrespectful to all who have a conscience. This, along with what a lot I've read above has nothing to do with racism. No where that I read said anything about your race besides those that said they are of that race. Stop playing the race card and grow a brain and realize people are disgusted because you are eating A BABY CHICKEN CARCAS that hasn't even opened its shell yet... whoever can eat this is a vial disgusting shame to the human race!
I love to eat meat, but I've never eaten a thing that looks like it fell out of a tree and is covered in slime. I won't judge others for eating it, and I would be open to try it, but I don't see why it is insulting to say it looks disgusting. It really does look like it should not be eaten.
This seemed like normal food growing up in the Asian culture in the US. I didn’t think about it until my boyfriend refused to try it… well, people eat eggs and full grown poultry all the time. I realized that there’s a lot more “uncommon” Asian food than I thought. I just got some durian dessert for him so we’ll see 😂
So its ok to eat eggs and chicken but not the embryo?its just a meat,people eat different kinds of animal meats,whats the difference?You think its cruel?Eating cows,pigs and chicken is not?#hypocrites.
I dont think its cruel. i do find it a little disturbing to seek out a food that is essentially an undeveloped fetus as its very gross looking compared to normal food.
@@alchemic85 Yeah their logic doesn't make sense. It's all disgusting. At the end of the day, all meats are dead bodies that people eat. Not sure why they thought comparing them all made it sound better
The only reason I couldn't eat this is because you can see the head... just too real for me. When you eat other types of meat, it looks so different from the actual animal you don't really think about the animal. I wouldn't be able to stop imagining a cute baby chick.
We eat it everyday because chicken farms often produce much an cannot really ship all of the eggs, so what I would do is to just boil it and hope that it didn't develope in later stages of its infancy growth.
This is one reason that nobody likes Filipino food it is absolutely cruel and true garbage to torture and unborn duck fetus and boil him in his mother's shell womb is so very cruel
I hate how people say "YOU MONSTERS HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?!?" Well you guys eat egg, chicken, beef etc... But Whats the difference you guys are STILL eating animals. So please. Just stop! We know it looks weird but just try it For once! I mean come on! Its really not that bad.
Jenny Tchao : Yah I get that a lot. I mean I personally eat balut, but moving on. I don’t think that the visuals/ the way a food looks like can justify whether or not it is cruel to eat it, especially when people eat actual ducks, chickens, cows, pigs, lambs, etc. And just because they eat all the other animals above without seeing it in a gross way, it’s kinda hypocritical to say that eating balut is cruel. In fact, I would say that eating balut is less cruel than eating animals that have once lived already. From the way I see the comments section, for the most part, people are pretty shallow to think that eating balut is more cruel than eating a grown-up duck JUST because you cannot see the decapitated head or the innards that have been ripped out. Anyway, thats all I want to say. Good bye 👋 peeps
***** Your just being a person who makes a person happy. Michael Ballack You mean *i* right? Just a correction anyways, i am a philippine person who likes balut w/ salt so much.
see that sounds good on paper its just the mutated little duck being in there that is very shocking to me, even as an asian american. i definitely respect it as ive eaten and loved plenty of foods many americans consider gross but i dont think i could handle the thought of this
DougieJR nice try hahah tell me that the next time I’m cutting into my ribeye with my fat knife. lol “that’s like ...a baby!...that I support ‘murdering!” Son, I don’t support cows being aborted I want them full grown. Lose the converse. ✌🏻little one. Pssshh ahahahahah
DougieJR it’s innocent baby bird who doesn’t even feel pain when it gets cooked unlike the pain that the innocent animals in the farms get killed and experience pain all there lives. What seems more immoral here
Why the crap are people shaken by these fertilized eggs when they eat worse things every day... I mean I don't think these poor baby ducks feel as much pain in their "lives" as the average slaughtered pig, chicken, lamb, cow etc.
Danny B I know I’m 3 years late I did my research and it can only happen if there’s a parasite inside the mother that laid the egg but in 90% case there won’t be a parasite in the egg
we've literally ate meat for 200,000 years now we're not? sorry my man meat's a critical part of the average human diet now. I really really hate vegans and I hope they burn in hell or some other shithole that they came from. I mean, cats eat rats and fish but why aren't you stopping them? we're omnivores, our teeth are designed to eat meat and plants. why not just eat plants, you might say? cause we're omnivores. we need both to live a healthy life.
Some of the comments scare me. How can some people not know what is happening in their own country in regards to battery farms, mass slaughterhouses, animal testing and cruelty all happening in their own countries? It boggles me. They are either kids or do not see the world past their four walls. Also, most of those making ignorant comments seem to be Americans who do not know how to spell... Interesting. Just an observation.
well, because people dont see those places. they are all behind closed doors. aless someone selectively chooses a documentary on slaughterhouses or battery farms ot animal testing, they won't know about it. usually after watching such a documentary there is an emotional reacion and the viewer will temporarily stop eating meat. But then the effect wears off. There's a massive distance between the meat industry-the breeding and butchering of animals and the consumer. i have a massive problem with industrial fishing and animal farming. It is the inhumane industrial level of it that effects me. if im an ancient farmer, and i kill and have my wife cook an animal for the family to eat, that's normal and fine, just as fishing with a small net for one's own family is. its the industral level that is immoral. we have for one hundred thousand years since being modern humans, and humanoids date back one million years, eaten meat. so there's nothing immoral about that. but the greed and the conditions animals are kept in with modern industrial methods is horrible.and anyone seeing them should not want to eat meat now. incidentally getting rid of cattle farming would have a big effect on easing global warming.
in the philippines we dont eat balut using forks ( most of us )... first we crack the egg on a hard surface, have a sip with the soup inside the egg, (add salt if u want), eat the baby duck first as a whole, then remove the white part of the egg ( some calls that bato), then eat the yellow part of the egg....
I like how she's respectful when trying the new food, and treats it as food that people actually eat rather than just as a novelty
A. Neufeld true, she wasn't clouded by prejudice or fear, that's why she actually found it good
A. Neufeld it being in new york IS a novelty for the pretentious and the dumb. just like the fact that you could also find shark fin soup there.
douebleu but the owner is Filipino and NYC has lots of Filipinos so how is it pretentious and dumb?
well, time for me to go to my nearest oriental market, and buy a dozen
A. Neufeld but it is just a novelty. its also patently disgusting. i know phillipinos that were raised there that have never even heard of this crap and will not eat it. you can eat disgusting shit anywhere, like pig intestines aka chitlins, or sheep testicles, aka prairie oysters, here in america. it doesnt make it anything more than an oddity that only a select few people eat. just because people once did something out of desperation doesnt make it desirable, traditional, or healthy.
Horror show for vegetarians
Hahahhahaha tree huggers be raging
Tony Nguyen Chill man, wtf is wrong with you, I didn't say that there is something wrong with vegetarians now did I? Idiot
horrow show for everyone including non vegans
these new yorkers are mentally ill to eat shit like this
Abdul Karim its actually not that kind of gross its yummy and you dont like it because you haven't tasted it yet but i tasted it and its very yummy including the soup of it and pls dont be mad at me
Romano we eat eggs...... eggs that had living things in them... this isnt disgusting because its just a larger caviar
Baby Duck: When i grow up...
Human: NO
Hilarious 😂😂
It’s not even when I grow up. It’s just when I am BORN
This is my kind of humour.
FETUS DELETUS CUZ FETUS DELICIOUS
😂😂😂
Growing up with Filipino parents in Australia, I cannot tell you the horror of when I wanted to cook scrambled egg and it cracked out one of these.
yo fr??? 😂
HAHAAAHAHAHHAHAHAAGAAH
There are way more Filipino food like sisig, banana cue, kaldereta, dried mangoes, chicharron, lumpia, etc. that we can offer to our visitors especially foreigners (not just balut, that most Filipinos don't eat). I get it, balut is part of our culture (especially in rural areas) but it doesn't help in promoting our cuisine. In result, ignorant people are stereotyping. This balut trend needs to stop. Most Filipinos don't even eat it.
"When the only representations of your culture available are negative, it’s no surprise if some Filipinos internalize all that shaming."
😂
@@seraphicchic8829 yo i eat balut 6x a day what u mean? I treat balut same way as i look at chips or junk foods or whatever u call it
I’m not even vegan but when I tell you this could give me nightmares
yes
Yeah me too
Green Lizard 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Green Lizard lmfao
@Green Lizard what?? dog turd very good, you should try it !!
3:25
Girl: oh i feel like its looking at me-
Woman: *soulless voice* its not.
Just monika
the only part I laughed
Amazing Username *yes*
Demonic voice: EAT IT
Everyone else: This is scary
Filipinos: We know
It's just strait up disgusting
And then I fired And I missed
oop- say that to Filipinos and you’ll get the belt 👁👄👁
Usa will be like china eventually then Viennese eating there own people - Albert Einstein
@@ChloePricesNumberOneSimp it actually tastes good 😜
I've never been to Philippines before but they also sell these in Cambodia ngl it taste so so good 😍😍
When my family landed in Davao in 1990 I remember the first thing we were greeted with at the airport was Balut. Venders were selling it right outside. Followed by Durian. It was a culture shock for a little girl from Wisconsin.
Durian is fuckin gross
Depends on the type of Durian
“Crack it three times”
**proceeds to crack it 4 times**
what a mad lass
"perfect."
“Eggs”
demogorgon queen crazy right?
Wow it’s amazing how I payed so much attention to that
the host really embraced it, wow I am pleasantly surprised
Same
I remember buying duck eggs in an Asian store one time, and the Asian man at the register asked, " Do you really want these "?? I took them home, and boiled them. Imagine my horror when I opened them, to find a baby duck inside !! 😳😳
😁🤣
🤣🤣🤣
bro was trynna help you out haha
I feel like this is the kind of content UA-cam originally intended to host- short, innocent, informative, inoffensive videos. It's nice
right you are
Shut up
Susan!!!
STOPID!@@kelsey2333
I like how Sydney just tries it without sounding grossed out or overly enthusiastic about it. She just eats it.
Things changed,
says twice for dramatic effect*
Things changed...
I'm Filipino, and I still can't eat the fetus, I can only eat the juices and the yolk
Haha! Same
yep
Lolol same 😂
Ikr
I dont think of it as a fetus lol I just eat it while thinking of it as delicious black meat 😂
I married a Filipina and eating bulut was like my final test with the family lol
It is one that I will personally choose to fail lol
You a survivor. Congrats!
I'm turning into a vegetarian after this, somethings are just not meant to be eaten
"ohhh i feel like it's looking at me!"
"it's not." lmao
It is
but it’s dead
The way she strung up the neck and head part on her fork like messed me up
Lol
Disturbing
@Nylthanyr IV foetus
@Nylthanyr IV gross it’s a non American
@Nylthanyr IV what ever you say non American
Growing up with a Vietnamese dad and grandparents, they showed this stuff to me. I thought it was terrible at first cause I was little but when you eat it more and get used to it’s flavor it’s ends up being the best thing ever.
I was still too sensitive & too much as a child. Like even grapes for example. If there was a little 1 I didn't even want to eat that bc it was the "baby."
Filthy people
If I go on hells kitchen, this is going to be my starting dish for Gordan Ramsy.
No thanks. I make it a habit not to eat anything that still has a head.
+AngelKay7 Even a whole fish?
Especially a whole fish.
Your wife must be really disappointed
I'm a woman.
+AngelKay7 Well I guess your username makes sense now. Disregard my tasteless joke
I'm Filipino, but I think this is disgusting.But y'all overreacting about the Dead Ducks embryo. But you never complained about eating chicken meat. WTF? Y'all little hypocrites..
Most people who eat chicken meat is either grilled, fried, or boiled. And its usually some parts of the chicken not the whole bird. So how is our preferred method of eating chicken make us hypocrites in anyway?
+Roxana Rodriguez The egg is boiled tho.
Same here, Im filipino and I dont eat it...
masarap ba yung balut? di pa ako nakakatikim non kahit pilipino ako
+Bbomi Masarap ung, pero hindi ko disto.
"you signed up" - "you will be hearing no chewing" 😂💀
3:46 That was the sweetest thing I have seen/heard this month, so far.
3:24 "Oh,I feel like it's looking at me"
*"it's not"*
😂
it goes in my..." Never wanna eat" list...!!!
Try it with flaky salt it will taste better ; )
Ots tasty tho o guess you dont want
It's on my "worth a try" list
The eggs is good
@@doog. because proteins both from egg and the meat
Every pinoy kid's nightmare
If this video is chinese... Imagine the backlash
true, but bc racist ppl can’t tell the difference between asian cultures, they still ended up blaming us for the pandemic as well
call me a crazy person or a disgrace to humanity but i like balut, and before u judge me.
people eat caviar,cow tongue,frog,fermented shark,fermented soy beans,cooked animal privates,baked spiders,fish eyes,calamari,and even fried brains. so before u say something bad about me think about whats happening around you.
king noob nope balut is way worse its a BABY duck like let it live for like a year atleast and caviar not alot of people eat that
eating eggs is almost the same thing but without the animal in
there is no difference the difference is that the chick is not there
but the animal wasnt alive the balut it was formed and lived for a bit but a normal egg is dead
bc you need to let them live atleast a day balut is killed straight away
ok cool i really dont care anymore :3
You don't call a delicacy of a certain country "disgusting". Calling something based on their culture and heritage disgusting is disrespectful. Its almost the same as insulting their country. For example, I may not like sushi or other raw stuff, but I won't call it disgusting simply because it doesn't suit my taste buds.
Taggi Thank you. Finally someone with brains. There should be more people like you.
***** it is disgusting for you, WHY DON'T YOU TASTE IT THAN JUDGING IT BY ITS LOOKS? "DO not judge a book by its cover"
Alex Sokolov HAHAHA as a matter of fact i am a student. And how the hell do you know that he has a green card are you his bitch?
ivan paulo delos reyes is balut disgusting? yes? yeah it looks disgusting, is the taste disgusting? yes? its not! "do not judge a book by its cover" do not judge food by its looks
U little phi maids are the most damn fucking species in the world....gross.................
97% of the comments: The people with broccoli of a brain who just comment on how apparently “disgusting” it is
3%: people with actual brain cell who actually does know other cultures instead of criticizing it
broccoli LOL
i find it hillarious when people eat the wole chicken critize we asian eating a baby duck/chicken that haven't has concuios
not only that, i find it funny when even westerner have exotic food like maggot chesse
0:34 “a little delicious baby”
What the hell is wrong with people
i prefer starving 🤮
Pauline Phan 😂
Respect ✊🏽
If you prefer starving then trying it your judging it
just because it looks gross
doesn't mean it also tastes gross
but i respect you
Dang peeps complain about this but don’t complain about peeps from the USA fry chicken ;/
"Would you eat it again?"
"No."
I like that guy
Corbin Bohne gtfo
I eat a lot of different stuff but this right here is crossing the line 🤣
This is just an egg but cooked differently
Me and my girl are Filipino.
Once we ate balut.
I ate everything except the shell.
She opened the shell, spilled the juice, ate the yolk and threw the rest.
I was like "WTF?!?!?!?"
Im like her... I don't like the hard white part 😂
@@KuromixMel same i dont want broken teeth
Just one question........ Why?????
do you eat meat?
Lynn Hayashi I don't eat meat.
soumya gupta because we can.... N FYI it's tasty
TASTY AF
do you eat letuce?
The reporter opened the balut perfectly.
I'm not filipino, and this does shock me a bit, but when you think about it, you eat whole chickens too, there is no additional cruelty or wierdness in balut. Its just different food that different cultures eat and we should get used to people not eating the same thing around the world.
Chickens actually lived their life but these eggs, they kill the babies before getting out!
I don’t have to get used to anything
@@OnePieceIsGoat 90% of the chicken we eat spend their lives tortured in atrocious conditions by big corps.. who really won lol
Kuro Ne-chan they’re not really living. they living a trapped life of sadness
@@OnePieceIsGoat they lived their life as our prey lmao. Still the same sh*t from egg to adult
ngl people be eating a whole ass chicken and ducks but is afraid of eating a balut xD
Freaking love that guy at the end ''I think i swallowed it to fast'' he didn't seem to give a fuck!
I'm Filipino. They're Americans. I love Balut, and they don't. And I don't give a fuck about it.
up you go!^^^^
Good. Be proud of our culture, don’t let the racists tell you otherwise.
Aliens:That's why we're scared of humans and don't go to earth tour!
Everyone : scary
Vietnam : finally , a good f***ing food
Same energy as "IM NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS!"
This is also a Vietnamese delicacy as well! I remember eating this as a little kid. I never really ate the duck though because I didn't like how it was so hairy XD
This is def 1 of those things where
Nonasians: asians eat weird stuff!
Other asians: ok but so do u. And not all of us.
The other other asians: well ure just not acting Asian enough then. We practically disown u.
:/ it really do be like that. It's that serious... but me either. I always wasted food. Couldn't get over what I was eating. I ate the yoke tho. The white part is too hard.
I ended up having a mixed kid & she said she's fascinated by it. & wants to try the whole thing. Like right. I'll get on that... Lol, who would've thunkifth. Her ancestors would be so proud. 🙈 bc she didn't get that from me...
Balut sa puti ( pronounced as bah-loot sah pooh-tee) is the best kind of balut because it has richer taste and more succulent juice. From here in the Philippines especially in Pateros. A typical sized balut is about three inches in length. A "balut sa puti" on the other hand was a bit smaller and the duckling wasn't that visible as it was still wrapped inside its yolk. It was 14 to 17 days old from the moment it was hatched until being steamed/boiled prior to selling it to the market. The typical balut was 18 to 21 days old and the duckling was more developed and visible when you cracked open its egg. The latter was a preferred choice by many balut afficionados here being sold warm by balut vendors in their rattan baskets walking down the streets at night time shouting
"Baluuuuutttt...Pennnnoooyyyy...Baluuuutttttt!!!" These folks are friendly. Some of them also sell crunchy "chicharon"
One of the best balut experience one can have is on the busy sidewalks of Manila where Filipino street foodies are located. Currently, one balut costs about fifteen pesos or roughly around thirty-five cents (US$) . For those who doesn't know, there's another egg thats an alternative to balut and it's called penoy (pronounced as pen-oi) which has no duckling in it yet and looked similar to a boiled chicken egg. Penoy tastes like the yolk found inside balut and paired nicely with salt and vinegar like the balut.
All over the world if there's a food that's really gross it's almost always said to be an "aphrodisiac" 🤢
yea like I wonder why is that? Might be cap
the comments did not pass the vibe check…let’s come with a little bit of respect and understand the significant history that this food carries for my ancestors. This applies to all cuisines. Colonizers check yourself.
this is horrifying
Its boiled baby duck. In an egg. I don't see why it's disgusting.
its boiled ? wouldn't the liquid solidify ? like a regular egg I mean ??????
Aman, they are fertilized eggs -- so there is a duck actually inside. Regular eggs are not fertilized. They incubate the eggs until the duck inside is the right age, then they just boil it.
It sort of tastes like duck stew. Just extra fresh and soft.
Looks yucky, tastes heavenly.
its pretty delicious..
Don thank you for the info :)
Don same
Remember, the duck felt no pain when it was killed.
That’s actually not true. According to animal researchers, some of these duckling fetuses are developed enough (have formed a neural tube) to where they can and do feel pain. Usually at about the 18th day I believe. Some are boiled earlier than that.
I used to keep a trio of ducks, and sold their eggs to a local Vietnamese market/restaurant. It was fairly rare, but every now and then the owner would request a batch of balut. I feel awful for what I did to those ducklings, even though the pay was good. But if anything makes up for it, know that the adults were very happy birds, who were treated more like family pets than livestock. They lived out their entire lifespan, and passed away gently from old age.
At least you’re conscious of your actions and feel some kind of way, shows growth :)
Host:
"Now eat that"
Girl with long curly hair:
"Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha, No."
Thank you. I haven't laughed this strongly since coming home from the hospital this forth of July week.
Ok Im Going to Head Out No More UA-cam for today.😫😫
Ive always heard strange and wicked people eat aborted fetus as well.
“Would you eat it again?”
“No.”
😂
"how to eat balut"
they use spoon and fork, wtf?
Who else is here from bretman rocks mukbang 🙄🙄
meeee lol
Omg lol 😂😂😂😂meeee
BIG BEAUTY MONY Kim Thai for me.
BIG BEAUTY MONY MEE HAHA
No. I am here after Mikey Bustos. 🙄
People in the comments, your ignorance is showing.
Ah yes. Most people in the western world cant stomach organs. So I think that a DUCK EMBRYO is a little gross.
@@aerophy2894 it doesn’t even have enough meat on it lol 😆
Filipino dude at the end wasnt even phased since he eats that for breakfast everyday🤣
im a filipino and quite offended by the racy comments here. hey, no once forces you to eat this if you dont want to but it stops there. stop making irrational generalizations. the balut do not define the end all of what we are as filipinos. perhaps your shallow mindedness define yours.
My ex-boyfriend was filipino and balut is actually really really good. I don't know why some people are so rude about it.
In the philippines, its like eating a hot dog. Fast and delicious.
Some people are really ignorant and rude towards other cultures. I'm sorry you had to see that side of them.
I would definitely have to steel myself to eat balut, if I ever had the chance (I seriously would like to travel the world one day so I can experience other cultures). When I went to China, this restaurant had silk worms, young and adult, and only 5 (including me) out of our entire group tried it. It was actually a lot better than what I thought. (the younger silk worms are definitely better)
I feel sad that others don't even try to give any of this stuff a try, and just knock it off for what it is. :(
But yeah, I would have to steel myself to eat it. It the baby duck part that makes me cringe, I have a phobia of dead animals/things. Especially if their eyes are open, I always get freaked out.
People are rude about it because it is vial and disgusting and completely disrespectful to all who have a conscience. This, along with what a lot I've read above has nothing to do with racism. No where that I read said anything about your race besides those that said they are of that race. Stop playing the race card and grow a brain and realize people are disgusted because you are eating A BABY CHICKEN CARCAS that hasn't even opened its shell yet... whoever can eat this is a vial disgusting shame to the human race!
Ink Sphinx He is not offended, because you're insulting his race. He is offended, because you're insulting his culture
Ink Sphinx
It's a duck, not chicken, dumbass.
I love to eat meat, but I've never eaten a thing that looks like it fell out of a tree and is covered in slime. I won't judge others for eating it, and I would be open to try it, but I don't see why it is insulting to say it looks disgusting. It really does look like it should not be eaten.
***** It may look disgusting, but it really taste good esp. the yolk and the its juice. Try eating one and you'll know.
pingboo Ü I will someday, but it would have to be with someone I trust or I'd be too scared of getting food poisoning or something
pingboo Ü it is better made in the Philippines :)
HashtagYOLO4 GT Yea, I know. I'm Pinoy ;)
pingboo Ü i have never tasted one tho ;-; i wish i am brave enought to do it
"Buh-loot" every Filipino did a face palm rn
Balut is us Filipinos food, just respect it like we respect ur foods too... :/
finally, someone else is speaking up about the ignorant ppl in the comments
Still disgusting, inhuman, caveman shit, still no disrespect to Filipinos though 👍
Here in mexico we eat insects i dont now why its weird to eat a dead duckling
+ashkatsup666 ahah i prefer balut than insects for sure
Pero enserio te comerías algo como esto? Lo de comerse un feto está medio turbio 😅
You need to have a beer with that. At least a six-pack for one of those eggs. Maybe two six-packs.
This seemed like normal food growing up in the Asian culture in the US. I didn’t think about it until my boyfriend refused to try it… well, people eat eggs and full grown poultry all the time. I realized that there’s a lot more “uncommon” Asian food than I thought. I just got some durian dessert for him so we’ll see 😂
I suppose cheese is just as weird for people outside of Europe 🙈. It's rotten milk after all.
Well the difference between this and grown “meat” is that you’re drinking amniotic fluid 💀
People do eat meat. They just don't eat it raw or crawling around the way you lot do, which adds a dimension of animal cruelty to your cuisine
eggs don't have a embryo in them
"feels like it looking at me"
"It's not"
So its ok to eat eggs and chicken but not the embryo?its just a meat,people eat different kinds of animal meats,whats the difference?You think its cruel?Eating cows,pigs and chicken is not?#hypocrites.
ItsMeKarl Scorpio Respect!🙌🙌
Retarded statement. People eat dogs in parts of the world too. Are you saying that's not disgusting?
its not
I dont think its cruel. i do find it a little disturbing to seek out a food that is essentially an undeveloped fetus as its very gross looking compared to normal food.
@@alchemic85 Yeah their logic doesn't make sense. It's all disgusting. At the end of the day, all meats are dead bodies that people eat. Not sure why they thought comparing them all made it sound better
The only reason I couldn't eat this is because you can see the head... just too real for me. When you eat other types of meat, it looks so different from the actual animal you don't really think about the animal. I wouldn't be able to stop imagining a cute baby chick.
Just think that your mouth is the ducks shelter
WTF THIS IS MESSED UP
We eat it everyday because chicken farms often produce much an cannot really ship all of the eggs, so what I would do is to just boil it and hope that it didn't develope in later stages of its infancy growth.
An after that it's the matter of choosing which condiments is the best or salt. No in between
This is one reason that nobody likes Filipino food it is absolutely cruel and true garbage to torture and unborn duck fetus and boil him in his mother's shell womb is so very cruel
vegan teacher 2.0
Lol at the coworkers being too squeamish. Most of them probably eat burgers and bacon and what not.
And that's comparable to eating an undeveloped bird fetus?
I don't think it's cruel, but it just look disgusting.
It's true but the taste tho.
Finally someone understand.
The lady in the sleeveless top was hilarious 😂
it's a natural food in my country. why so many dislikes?
Because western people act like people all over the world are going to eat the same things
@Ryan Roshan oh no I was replying to the comment sorry if I made it seem like I was talking to you
Too many igorant and silly people.
Disgusting for us
I hate how people say "YOU MONSTERS HOW COULD YOU
DO THAT?!?" Well you guys eat egg, chicken, beef etc... But
Whats the difference you guys are STILL eating animals.
So please. Just stop! We know it looks weird but just try it
For once! I mean come on! Its really not that bad.
Ur the weirdest shit people i ever met.
Luqman Hakim YOURE THE WEIRD REACTOR S*IT I EVER MET
Because it is a fetus! This the difference. Sorry but I cant call it as a couisine.
Jenny Tchao : Yah I get that a lot. I mean I personally eat balut, but moving on. I don’t think that the visuals/ the way a food looks like can justify whether or not it is cruel to eat it, especially when people eat actual ducks, chickens, cows, pigs, lambs, etc. And just because they eat all the other animals above without seeing it in a gross way, it’s kinda hypocritical to say that eating balut is cruel. In fact, I would say that eating balut is less cruel than eating animals that have once lived already. From the way I see the comments section, for the most part, people are pretty shallow to think that eating balut is more cruel than eating a grown-up duck JUST because you cannot see the decapitated head or the innards that have been ripped out. Anyway, thats all I want to say. Good bye 👋 peeps
Exactly Kim taehyung!!!!
In vietnam, I was eating Balut. I didn't want to eat the hard egg white, so I feed it to the dogs, :3
My heart goes out to your dogs.
haha, when is was a child, my most favourite part of Balut is the hard egg white.
Emperl Arct you mean you feed it to the doge.
***** Your just being a person who makes a person happy. Michael Ballack You mean *i* right? Just a correction anyways, i am a philippine person who likes balut w/ salt so much.
***** I am not a grammar nazi, lol, just shanking you. =)
Looks really interesting. I love how the host shows respect for the food and the people who like it!
for those who are wondering what it taste like. imagine hardboiled eggyolk and chicken and mashing it together
see that sounds good on paper its just the mutated little duck being in there that is very shocking to me, even as an asian american. i definitely respect it as ive eaten and loved plenty of foods many americans consider gross but i dont think i could handle the thought of this
This is a baby, sorry
No doubt about it
According to pro-abortion people, it's a clump of cells.
Imagine having the option to eat your abortions, and an extra $2 for beef stew 🤠
It can’t feel pain yet because it’s brain hasn’t developed enough
to all who find this "inhuman" or "immoral", but still eat meat: What exactly is wrong with this?
That's like (eerily close really) to saying "If you're pro-choice what exactly is wrong with this?"
DougieJR nice try hahah tell me that the next time I’m cutting into my ribeye with my fat knife. lol “that’s like ...a baby!...that I support ‘murdering!” Son, I don’t support cows being aborted I want them full grown. Lose the converse. ✌🏻little one. Pssshh ahahahahah
@@NoticerOfficial I don't think you properly understood which side my point falls on...
DougieJR it’s innocent baby bird who doesn’t even feel pain when it gets cooked unlike the pain that the innocent animals in the farms get killed and experience pain all there lives. What seems more immoral here
it's called "food chain" and "omnivore"
*if it's inhuman why the hell are we made to be omnivores?*
The thumbnail bothered me. Not because it’s a duck fetus that was boiled but because of the way they were eating it. NO
What?? There is a little bird inside this bird egg? You're kiddin' me!
Why the crap are people shaken by these fertilized eggs when they eat worse things every day... I mean I don't think these poor baby ducks feel as much pain in their "lives" as the average slaughtered pig, chicken, lamb, cow etc.
I know this is not worser than halal
"Are bugs going to come crawling out?!" Lol. Yeah, because there are un-cracked chicken eggs that have multiple live insects inside of them.
*duck eggs
for a science reporter saying bugs inside the eggs is so dumb, she says prob not an egg, clearly its and EGG!!!
Danny B I know I’m 3 years late I did my research and it can only happen if there’s a parasite inside the mother that laid the egg but in 90% case there won’t be a parasite in the egg
@@chrissim4115 I’m seven years late
@@heydude2650 same lmao
this traditional filipino food is actually good
Exactly. People need to get an education on good food.
IDC how many people pretend to like it, that's disgusting
I grew up in Russia, and we eat all kinds of weird food, but I can never try this one. You got me
American: This is so gross, inhumane and wrong!
American: *takes bite of chicken*
@@0813lia that the reason why we eat Filipinos. My idea, change your cultur to a better one, its not hard alot are better
KeIIion ok
we've literally ate meat for 200,000 years now we're not? sorry my man meat's a critical part of the average human diet now. I really really hate vegans and I hope they burn in hell or some other shithole that they came from. I mean, cats eat rats and fish but why aren't you stopping them? we're omnivores, our teeth are designed to eat meat and plants. why not just eat plants, you might say? cause we're omnivores. we need both to live a healthy life.
chicken doesnt remind me of a human fetus while im looking at someone eat it. lol
@@JaimzeGamesok well deal with it. Our food wasn’t made for westerners
“oh my god it’s looking at me”
“it’s not”
LMAO
“Crack it three times-“
Person: *crack crack crack......crack*
I been eating balut my whole life until I found out there was a baby duck in there
Same!
lol
+Alec Paacua same here haha, parents fed me that when I was younger and it's so delicious even till today.
wtf thats just weird! xD
Whats the difference between eating a baby duck and a grandmother peking duck? :p
If GMM saw this, they will be like "WHATTTT!?!?!"
A lot of respect to the reporter. You weren’t acting all squirming and not overreacting.
americans: i aint buyin those
filipinos: buys 10...
american: AYOO
My mother never told me what it was so I just digged in it, it was delicious
Some of the comments scare me. How can some people not know what is happening in their own country in regards to battery farms, mass slaughterhouses, animal testing and cruelty all happening in their own countries? It boggles me. They are either kids or do not see the world past their four walls. Also, most of those making ignorant comments seem to be Americans who do not know how to spell... Interesting. Just an observation.
well, because people dont see those places. they are all behind closed doors. aless someone selectively chooses a documentary on slaughterhouses or battery farms ot animal testing, they won't know about it. usually after watching such a documentary there is an emotional reacion and the viewer will temporarily stop eating meat. But then the effect wears off. There's a massive distance between the meat industry-the breeding and butchering of animals and the consumer. i have a massive problem with industrial fishing and animal farming. It is the inhumane industrial level of it that effects me. if im an ancient farmer, and i kill and have my wife cook an animal for the family to eat, that's normal and fine, just as fishing with a small net for one's own family is. its the industral level that is immoral. we have for one hundred thousand years since being modern humans, and humanoids date back one million years, eaten meat. so there's nothing immoral about that. but the greed and the conditions animals are kept in with modern industrial methods is horrible.and anyone seeing them should not want to eat meat now. incidentally getting rid of cattle farming would have a big effect on easing global warming.
Probably because they think McDonalds is actually healthy lmao
Why does it scare you? It makes me glad that they are repulsed by such things when shown.
@@N0Xa880iUL why do you hate balut so much lol, you've been spam commenting under every positive balut comment
The racism is also scaring me
in the philippines we dont eat balut using forks ( most of us )... first we crack the egg on a hard surface, have a sip with the soup inside the egg, (add salt if u want), eat the baby duck first as a whole, then remove the white part of the egg ( some calls that bato), then eat the yellow part of the egg....
Bruh people need to understand just cause it’s edible doesn’t mean it should be eaten.