We went to Maharlika in New York City to try Balut—a hard-boiled egg with a developing duck inside. Balut is a common street food in the Philippines. The waiter at Maharlika told us that this ...

Poultry hobbyists can start their own backyard duck family by hatching fertile call duck eggs. Raising call ducks from eggs helps the animals to become tame and comfortable around humans, and the ...

Most people's introduction to balut, or fertilized duck egg, is probably similar to how the reality TV show "Fear Factor" presented it to contestants in a 2002 episode: as a culinary oddity that's ...

HCMC - This specialty of Hanoi has plenty of versions which combine special ingredients such as fertilized duck egg, beef and stir-fried snail, to name but a few. However, the version with fertilized ...

The balut egg, a traditional Filipino hangover cure is a poached fertilized duck embryo. The egg contains cysteine, a substance that breaks down hangover toxins in ...