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No idea what this is really called. The internet always calls it disco eggs. I made it one time because I never have anything better to do. It's not that great! But it's fun and easy, so there's that. Unlike the balut, it's easy to imagine what it's like to eat from watching the video. It's highly seasoned eggs with bread smashed in it.
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A balut is a fertilized bird egg (usually a duck) which is incubated for a period of 14 to 21 days, depending on the local culture, and then steamed. The contents are eaten directly from the shell. Balut that is incubated for longer periods have a well-developed embryo and the features of the duckling are recognizable. The partially-developed embryo bones are soft enough to chew and swallow as a whole. The mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchus), also known as the "Pateros duck", is often used to make balut.
Balut is common street food in the Philippines and other localities, and is also sold in stores and malls. It is a relatively cheap source of protein and calcium. Balut was introduced to the Philippines by the Chinese in 1565 or around 1885 and since then, balut has been included as a traditional part of the culture. Wherever Filipinos migrated for work, a large market for balut would develop. Controversies arose as knowledge of the food spread around the Southeast Asian countries and then globally. People questioned the ethics of eating balut.
I will eat nearly anything but this is an exception.
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Quiche is super easy to make. 4 eggs, half cup cream, half cup milk + whatever else you want. Bake at 375 for 10-20 minutes.
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Thank you to everyone who donated, mops and recipes will be sent out ASAP after I tabulate total donations. I have received some overage, which will go to payment for sidebar art and a header image.
EDIT: Jannies have been jannied, soup recipes will be sent out when I make the soup as I don't have it written down and it's one of those things you can only remember by doing it.
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So one of the major negatives of Singapore is our fricking weather, where a thunderstorm could erupt suddenly on a scorching hot day. That coupled with how everywhere's air-conditioned because frick the heat means that we alternate between hot and cold temperatures the whole day... and I guess I finally succumbed and got the sniffles or covid or something, which was coincidentally after a trip to our fake snow city. Speaking of the fake snow area, how the frick are people able to wear masks outdoors in the cold? It was such a horrible experience, and I can't believe people are actually advocating for it.
Much like in the West, a chicken soup is our go to for comfort food for when we're feeling under the weather, so maybe we're not that different after all. Then again I remember how cordyceps are literally a parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars as I slurp them down, I guess we might be that different after all... Hmmm yummy
https://cdn.hswstatic.com/gif/cordyceps-new.jpg
Close enough to the picture I guess...
So dramneurodivergents, what's your favourite comfort food? Any unique ones in your culture that people should know about or try?