Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

was the last thing I remembered until breakfast the next morning.

The evening outreach had been great, and several people gave their lives to Jesus. We all met up in the small restaurant in the Shalom Center and grabbed breakfast before heading back to the airport in Manila for the 352-mile flight from Manila to Tacloban City. Over the years, I have discovered breakfast in Asian countries is very different from what we think of as breakfast food . For breakfast that morning, along with typical eggs and bread, on the menu was fried fish with the eyeballs still attached, looking straight at you, and various dishes I had never seen before or even heard of. Pastor Kelly, Brian, and the others were bravely and eagerly trying out new dishes and eating fish, fried and raw, with eyeballs looking at them. I pretty much stuck with eggs and toast. I wasn’t about to eat anything I had never heard of and could not recognize. One of the most famous delicacies people in the Philippines eat is an item called Balut . This popular Filipino delicacy, commonly sold as street food, is a fertilized developing duck egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell. The length of the incubation before the egg is cooked generally ranges from 14 to 21 days. In other words, eating Balut is cracking a boiled duck egg and pouring it into your mouth with the several days old duck embryo inside. I was raised in East Texas where my Dad, George Wesley Chance, raised chickens in coops behind our home and we cooked and ate fresh eggs that the hens laid daily.

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