- [Voiceover] Ahhh! I found that duck head!
- A few weeks ago, we saw everywhere
on an amazing trip to the Philippines.
- And while we were at the Philippines,
I decided I wanted to introduce you, guys,
our audience, and Linkin to the every interesting
and very common food for the Filipino people: balut.
Get ready for this.
If you have a weak stomach
and you've never seen balut before,
then I challenge you to watch the entire video
and not get sick.
And if yo make it, leave on the comments below
whether you made it or not through the video.
First, we're gonna take you on a journey.
We're leaving the city of Manila
where we've been for five days,
and all the traffic and the pollution
and flying to the clean, beautiful island of Palawan,
and experiencing some amazing things
before we got to the part where we're able to
actually get some balut for ourselves
and see what's inside of it
and even try a little bit.
- We made it to our amazing hotel in Palawan.
Here's my hotel over here,
and we're kind of close to the ocean.
(chuckling) - [Dad] "Kind of."
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Check this out.
It's amazing.
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Look at this thing.
Are you seeing it?
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If you check out this view, you can't really beat it.
You have a boat out there,
you have little islands, mountains, the ocean,
the jungle, this place is amazing.
We're here tonight at the boardwalk
at Puerto Princesa here in Palawan,
and we are on the lookout for balut
and we just found some.
So, we have all these eggs sitting here on the peanut.
We're going to buy six of them tonight
and then we'll take them with us tomorrow
and when we're at the hotel, we're gonna open them up.
Here we are, footsteps from the beach
and Linkin gets to try his first-ever balut.
So balut is basically a duck egg.
At the point before it hatches,
they take it and they cook it up.
And they boil it, and then they eat it.
So it may look a little different than
what you would imagine what we see in America,
but here in the Philippines, every night it's
one of the most popular things to eat.
Some people say it's an aphrodisiac,
some people say it's good for your health,
some people say they give you high blood pressure.
But bottomline is, you come to the Philippines,
you're going to see balut,
and you're going to most likely try it.
- I'm excited to see what's inside of the balut
but I'm kinda realistic.
- [Dad] So we have our friend Clifford here.
He works here at the Daluyon Hotel.
he hooked us up with the balut
and got it all warmed up.
Let's open one up and see what's inside.
So Clifford, would you mind breaking it open
and just showing us how it works?
- [Clifford] Sure, no problem.
Just like this. (clinks)
And then open like this.
- [Linkin] What's inside?
- [Clifford] So you want to try it?
- [Dad] Here we go, there's a little egg.
- Eww! What's that?
- [Dad] So what do you do? How do you eat it?
- Like this.
- [Dad] You drink it?
- [Clifford] Yes.
So there's a part inside here.
- [Dad] So that's just kinda like a hard-boiled egg.
- [Clifford] Yes, sir.
- [Dad] All right, I'll try drinking it.
Okay.
Bottoms up.
It's like an egg.
It's actually not bad.
It tastes just like an egg.
- You like it?
- Yeah, it tastes good.
Okay, let's open this one up
all the way, see what it looks like in there.
Whoa.
Okay.
- [Linkin] It sprayed all over you.
- [Dad] Oh, men.
Okay, so there is the egg.
And so the thing about balut is that
it's like a chick that almost hatched but it hasn't quite.
I mean, look at that, you can see all the veins in there.
It's like, it looks like feathers. Look at that.
- [Linkin] Eww.
- [Dad] It's like a real bird.
It's like it almost hatched but it didn't.
(Linkin reacts with disgust)
Look at that, Linkin. - [Linkin] Ooo, ooh.
- [Dad] Oh, my gosh. Ahh!
Oh, it is a duck.
Ahhh! I found the duck head. (Linking coughs)
Look at that!
It's a little duck head.
You eat this part, too?
- [Clifford] Yes, sir. - [Dad] Oh, my gosh.
- [Linkin] Eat it, dad, eat it.
- [Dad] Oh! There's that beak. Even the beak?
- [Clifford] Yes, sir. All these ones.
- [Dad] They eat the whole thing.
You swallow it, do you?
(Linkin reacts disgustingly)
Look at that little head and eyeballs.
Has its nose.
- That's like actually a beak. - It's actually a beak.
It's actually a bird, so a little baby duck.
Hi, Linkin, we got Romeo here.
He's gonna take one and show you exactly
what it's like to eat it, the whole thing.
You just eat the whole,
you don't wanna look for its head.
Do you chew on it, or do you just like--
- Just swallow whole, all this thing.
- [Dad] You just swallow the whole thing,
you don't like chewing on it
and like feeling the beak and stuff? (chuckling)
- To make the taste perfect.
- [Dad] Okay, so we put salt on it
and you just gonna eat the whole thing.
Okay. - Okay. Ready?
- [Dad] Ready.
That's the whole thing in his mouth.
Oh, he's chewing on it.
You taste the beak?
- Hmmm.
- [Dad] Yeah, he taste it.
(chuckling)
- It's yummy.
- [Dad] It's yummy. All right.
Show me how that is yummy.
He loved it, he ate the whole thing.
Hi, Linkin, you got the last one.
It's got your name on it.
- No.
- [Dad] You're ready for that?
- No.
- All right, a little bit of salt on this guy
that ever you're taking apart.
Bad, that's like a bird.
I guess all the food that we eat a lot of times,
if you're not a vegetarian,
you're eating actual animals anyway,
but it just seems weird when you can see
a little tiny baby thing.
- Baby thing. - All right.
Just because we have to, that we're here.
I got to take a bite of it.
(Romeo chuckling)
You want to take a bite, too?
Okay. (chuckes)
- What does it taste like?
- It tastes like a hard-boiled egg.
So Linkin, grab a piece.
- Oooh! Eww!
- [Dad] It's balut time. Balut!
Did you get a bite? (chuckling)
- No. I don't like it.
- [Dad] You don't like it?
You did it.
Here we go, high-five.
Nice job.
We go to the Philippines,
we saw what's inside a balut.
If you ever have to meet a Filipino,
ask them, do they like balut,
do they eat balut,
because most likely, they'll say, "Yes."
And they like it, they enjoy it.
We want to thank our friends at AirAsia
and also the Palawan Department of Tourism
for allowing us to come on this amazing trip
out here in the city's resorts.
If you ever want to go on a fun trip
and see an island that's gorgeous,
come to one of the top 10 beaches in the world,
then come to Palawan.
That's what's inside of a balut.
Thanks, guys, for watching it.
If you have any suggestions of things
that we should cut open, let us know.
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