Balut is a 17-day old duck or chicken embryo boiled in its shell.
You break the shell and suck out the “soup,” or the bodily fluids of the chick. You then eat the barely formed body of a baby chick.
I have personally eaten this dish exactly one and a half times. It tasted like a cross between a boiled egg and meat stew broth.
This high protein Asian street food is to Filipinos as hot dogs are to Americans.