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China eatery creates egg tarts topped with ‘giant cockroaches’, drawing widespread curiosity

A restaurant in Shunde, Guangdong, is turning heads online with a bizarre new dessert: egg tarts topped with crispy water beetles that look exactly like gigantic cockroaches.
Shunde is a city known for its Cantonese cuisine and recognised as a Unesco Creative City of Gastronomy.
In early October, it introduced a new “water roach egg tart”, priced at 28 yuan (US$4) for three. Images of the dessert, with a large insect perched on each tart, quickly made it a social media sensation.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3372291/china-eatery-creates-egg-tarts-topped-giant-cockroaches-drawing-widespread-curiosity