Adventures with Balut

Whilst in Manila, I decided to try balut, a Filipino delicacy that was once featured on Fear Factor. Below is a little photo-documentation of the experience.

Hum-de-dum, I'm just a hard-boiled egg...
Yes, this innocuous-looking egg is in fact the horrific nightmare that I'm about to unleash on myself.

Slurping balut juice
There's a "soup" that I was instructed to slurp out of the egg as I gradually peeled away the shell. It wasn't too bad actually.

What the hell am I doing?
A peek into the egg when I was halfway done peeling it... no turning back now! (Yes, those are feathers)

Point of no return
The balut once the shell has been completely removed. The big white bit at the bottom is the beak (which you remove before eating the rest of it).

About to take a bite
Here I go!

oh god oh god oh god oh god
Chewing on the balut. Through the blurriness, please note the look of consternation on my face.

Yummy!

I also went to a bar/restaurant called the Hobbit House that is owned and staffed by "little people". As an added bonus, here's a photo of me with some of the Hobbits.

Because I don't feel really tall most of the time anyway...

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