A community-sourced ranking of some of the most well-known Southeast Asian dishes has dubbed Filipino street food balut as the region’s worst-rated food. On Monday, online travel guide TasteAtlas ...

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Balut has a reputation that makes most travelers hesitate. In Zamboanga, it is treated as everyday street food rather than a challenge. The experience starts with hot broth and ends with textures most ...

Balut, a steamed partially developed duck embryo, is a massively popular dish in the Philippines. It is a meal best eaten with friends and large quantities of beer. In America it is generally ...

“I’m not a big fan of balut,” said Kristine Subido. She remembers liking the fertilized duck eggs—which are incubated until an embryo develops, then boiled and eaten with salt and vinegar—when she was ...

Independent scholar and folklorist Margaret Magat describes eating balut, an embryonic egg enjoyed across the Philippines. Magat says that the reason she wrote “Balut” was to set the record straight ...