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A balut (spelled standardized as balot) is a developing bird embryo (usually a duck or chicken) that is boiled and eaten from the shell. Not to sound cliche, but the embryo tastes like chicken. Once you get past the notion that you're eating a fertilized duck embryo, you'll find it's quite tasty. Add salt or vinegar, to taste.The embryo is the last part to eat in a balut. You first have to drink the "soup" and then consume the soft, creamy egg yolk. The white part I find tasteless and hard, and I've known friends who skip eating this.Balut tastes simply delicious (I will explain further below), but is a very rich food; too much can cause bodily issues with high cholesterol or hypertension. Just 1 balut egg contains 150% of the daily value of cholesterol for a person on a 2,000 kilo-calorie diet! The taste can be somewhat described as scrambled eggs but with a very faint hint of fishiness. This might be inherently due to the aquatic nature of the duck, or perhaps due to its embryonic state. There are certain tricks out there (like adding 1 tbsp. of vinegar to the boiling liquid) designed to reduce the fishiness of the meal.

Roxas Street on Davao City is a buzzling place at night, People would flock on this particular street to eat local street foods, like isaw and barbeque. But even if there are a lot of people on Roxas Avenue, it Is hard to not notice the long line of costumers waiting for the Famous Mang Danny ice cream. Mang Danny usually comes with his cart of delicious ice cream by 9pm but costumers start to line as early as 6pm just to have a taste of his tasty creation. People who have tasted it says that it is the best tasting ice cream they had thus making his product one of the most famous destination in roxas.

As a dabawenyo we are pretty much fond of eating durian. It’s rich custardy texture and strong exotic aroma entices anyone who has a particular taste for it. But just recently, someone came up with a brilliant idea to bring a twist to favorite fruit, by barbequing it of course! Barbequing durian is not a new thing but this trend has been the recent talk of the town because not only does it taste good, it leaves you craving for more. The grilling process reduces the moisture in the fruit making it extra creamy and it enhances the sweetness of the durian, it also adds a bit of a charred taste to it.

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