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Location: Boracay, Philippines

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Balut!


“The first bite into the yolk isn’t so bad. But then I see it. The little head with the little eyes, closed as if in prayer, the barely shaped wings crossed angelically across its chest. There is little left to do but bite off its face.” Globe and Mail reporter Deirdre Kelly, on the Filipino delicacy balut, a nearly developed duck embryo served as a boiled egg

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