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| | The Wily Filipino: On eating balut. |
 | | As opposed to, say, eating an ordinary chicken egg with yolk and all, the balut is already fertilized and ready to go, as it were, with an actual, healthy, living duck embryo (incubated up to 18 days in a hatchery). |
 | | One time my schoolmate Tim (can't remember his last name, but he lived in Mountain Province once and was studying Heidegger and Japan for his dissertation), Jenny Franco (I wonder where she is now), and I drove to Queens to Roosevelt Avenue to buy Filipino food. |
 | | You have to separate the balut into its component parts to appreciate it, and that requires reverent contemplation of the duckling, forever asleep. |
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