A fertilised duck egg which is on the verge of hatching. The eggs are fertilised, incubated and allowed to develop until they reach the stage of having beaks, a few feathers, before being boiled and spiced. Balut eggs are often stained bright fuchsia pink.

Large earthenware vats in which water is kept cool.

Bangus or milkfish. A large, silver, bony fish popular in the South Pacific and Indian ocean. It has a delicate flavour, rather similar to whitefish, and has greenish-grey skin. It is cultivated in brackish fish ponds.

Milkfish cooked in a black bean sauce.

A robust type of coffee.

A variety of mandarin commonly called ponkan which is widely grown throughout the world. The rind is thick and fits loosely around the sweet fruit.

A brass pot used for beating and cooking chocolate.

Garlic or onion