Balut for a despedida

You are in a certain country and it was time for you to leave. However, the local people you became close with told you to eat a food you never tasted and probably you never seen in your whole damn life, what will you do? Will you be challenged? Will you turn them down and apologize? Whatever reasons you have, it is your own choice. As I always hear people saying, it is your life anyway. .. :)

It is in the history of the foundation I work with to let foreign volunteers eat one of the Filipino foods, either upon arrival as a form of "baptism" or before they leave the country. Most of them think balut as one of the wackiest and yuckiest (so kadiri) ever foods we have here. Few of them are BCBG like super duper maarte and will not even dare to try. Most of them tried and later on some begun to like it. I’ve known some whom I really can not imagine to eat a balut but really dared  try it.

Like this one:


opening the balut..


pointing at the "chick"

"attend" ..look!

go go go!!!! watch me first!

there's no balut prepared here..