What It Is: A duck egg with a visible 16- to 21-day-old embryo inside—wings, beak, and all. A good balut has four parts: the white, the yolk, the amniotic fluid, and the embryo itself. At Filipino ...
The egg is boiled or incubated -- more than 18 days for duck eggs and between 13 and 14 days for chicken eggs. Opening it requires making a precise crack on the narrow top of the egg with a spoon and ...