Balut is a game of dice, similar to Yahtzee, created by United States soldiers as an alternative to poker, and is a popular pastime of businessmen overseas.
Balut is played with five six-sided dice
A set of poker dice from the 1940s, of the type originally used for balut
Balut is a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell. It is commonly sold as street food most notably in the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. The term comes from the Filipino language.
Mallard ducks are used extensively in the production of balut—female (left) and male (right)