Balut

Last Friday my weekend started with a Hawaiian Beach Party at the office with my workmates; cool drinks, chill music and a smooth atmosphere. Everything went pretty smooth until Ronald, our IT guy, brought in a Philipino treat; Balut.

Balut is something that does not qualify as food, or a thing that should be consumed at all! A Balut is a duckegg. Sofar so good, however there is a dead baby duck inside this egg. The preparation and consumption is to boil the egg for a couple of minutes. You take the egg out of the boiling water and peal off the top of the egg. Then you put the egg to your mouth and drink the partial clotted egg white. Then you peal off the rest of the shell and you separate the egg yoke of the embryo. With some rock salt you eat the yoke, still doable, and then as final treat you eat the embryo with a pinch of salt! You swallow the whole thing; beak, feathers and feet! Bienvenida a las Islas Philipinas!

After a couple of beers I ate my first Balut and was ready for the rest of the night! The party moved to my DHL friends for some more drinks with them, 2 Belgiums and another Dutch guy. At 11pm we left for Tiesto! We were lucky we left early because our friend was casually late and started his set at 2am. The night was great and ended early in the morning with our taxidriver in the McD for a cheeseburger. A couple of pictures can be checked here ! Not a lot of pictures, but believe me it was amazing!