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balut

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[buh-loot, bah-loot] / bəˈlut, bɑˈlut /

noun

  • baluts
    plural
  1. in the Philippines, a duck egg containing a developing embryo and eaten after being boiled, directly from the shell.


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Occasionally he would push further, cooking foods that even many Filipinos find challenging, like dinuguan, or pork-blood stew, and balut, a partly fertilized duck egg.

From New York Times Jan. 8, 2023

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

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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