Penoy!

This is the Penoy.

It is actually just a duck egg, no frills, no special spices, just a plain duck egg boiled in water.

There's this Balut vendor that drops by our office every 3:00 pm. He sells Balut (boiled duck embryo), two kinds of penoy, the one pictured above and the other kind, a bit runny, or "soupy", which I favor, but is usually sold out by the time he gets to our office.

I bought some balut and penoy to snack on this afternoon but I had one penoy left over. I was thinking of how to use it for dinner so it wouldn't go to waste. I came up with the recipe for the Shrimp & Crabstick Spring Roll (see previous post) planning to slice the egg and use it as a center for my spring rolls.

I proceeded to cook the spring rolls. Slicing the veggies, soaking the noodles, peeling the shrimps, sateeing, stuffing, then taking pictures of the finished dish... then out of the corner of my eye, I see the penoy, sitting on the countertop, alone... I made the spring rolls so I could use the egg and I ended up leaving it out!

No worries, I sat down and enjoy eating the spring rolls, then after finishing them, I got the penoy, peeled it, dipped it in a bit of salt, enjoying every bite. Nothing wasted. :D