A few weeks ago, I pointed to Eddie Lin’s Deep End Dining experience with balut, a type of Filipino delicacy. Well, somewhere along the lines, Stef got wind of Eddie’s adventure, was quite offended by the way he treated it, and posted her thoughts over at Stefoodie.net. Eddie responded to Stef with a subsequent post on his blog, in which Stef commented.
I read both blogs (very different in focus and style), so I am not pointing out any rights or wrongs. I just find both Eddie’s and Stef’s points of view interesting, well-argued, and, oh, I don’t know...I think I just like controversy. Hey, it’s not just the political blogs that have heated debate!
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9-30-2005 @ 3:47PM
Joe said...
Wow. I like food. I like food alot. I've even had Balut - along with other strange food contrivances (escamoles & sea slugs come to mind). But I find it hard to believe that they can spend so much time on this. There are more important things than differences of opinion over a friggin' egg.
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9-30-2005 @ 4:04PM
x24 said...
Being in the US for quite some time, I haven't had balut eventhough I know some Filipinos here make them (though they use chicken eggs here in the East Coast, not as much as they use Duck eggs on the West Coast, where there's a considerably large Filipino community). Anyway, I myself don't eat balut, due to a bad experience involving me seeing the chick when I was a child. We were taught to eat balut with our eyes closed. I just drink the soup, and the hard-boiled egg part, which is probably like 20% of the whole thing. I've showed pictures of it to me american friends and enjoyed the horror of their reactions a bit. Balut is an acquired taste type, and maybe a little guts to take it. Just ask those who had it in Fear Factor, or Survivor.
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9-30-2005 @ 4:07PM
x24 said...
oh and as far as taking too much time to make it? it has to be perfect or people won't eat it, much like the one described on Stefoodie. Balut is sold almost everywhere in the Philippines, mostly at night. Just look for a guy walking by the streets, holding a basket with a white cloth covering the top.
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