balut
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Ms. Saira said she was confused when she first watched the segment featuring balut about two years ago.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
She has memories of sitting around a table with her family during power blackouts, which were common, eating the balut by candlelight while they told stories.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
The restaurant offers a wide range of Filipino staples, including lumpia, deep-fried balut, crispy adobo and oxtail in mushroom gravy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2019
The one that disgusted him the most, he says, was balut, the Philippine delicacy of a boiled fertilized duck egg.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2018
One local delicacy for the daring: balut, a duck egg ready to hatch.
From Time Magazine Archive
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