Inside a Chinese cockroach farm

[JayAtl]

The correct way to eat a cockroach, at least in this corner of northernChina, is to fry it not once but twice in a wok of smoking hot oil.

The cockroach, whose innards resemble cottage cheese, has an earthy taste, with a slight twinge of ammonia. But they have become popular in China not for their taste, but for their medicinal benefits.

"They really are a miracle drug," said Liu Yusheng, a professor at the Shandong Agricultural university and the head of Shandong province's Insect Association. "They can cure a number of ailments and they work much faster than other medicine."

For a decade, Mr Wang farmed another type of insect, Eupolyphaga Sinensis, which is also used in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

But in the past two years, the demand for cockroaches has soared, and Mr Wang has switched his entire production to Periplaneta americana, or the American cockroach, a copper-coloured insect that grows to just over an inch and a half.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10399929/Inside-a-Chinese-cockroach-farm.html

 

[JayAtl]

American_Millenium - is probably salivating...

 

[Mujraparty]

yum . NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM

 

[joekrish]

 

[[Bregs]]

what to say

 

[INDIC]

Has the medicinal values of diseases carrying cockroaches ever been proved.

 

[rashid.sarwar]

yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak

 

[chhota bheem]

if they are in demand why dont we export them to china ,i see a business potential

 

[JayAtl]

Has the medicinal values of diseases carrying cockroaches ever been proved.

they have no value.

 

[kurup]

yuck ......

 

[INDIC]

Kill the disease carrying cockroaches and stay safe.

 

[JSCh]

It is indeed Yuck.

But if one is desperate to get well, what is a little yuck.

Traditional Chinese medicine has lots and lots of all types of herbs, plant, insects, animal parts even mineral. Majority of them are not ordinary food and is therefore yuck. Including snake, scorpion, earthworm and the like. They are almost without exception extremely bitter and repugnant to swallow.

And in the south of China, minorities have all sort of odd insect or worm as cuisine. Some people consider them pretty nice, so much so that they become sort of a tourist attraction.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Cockroaches are as yuck as beef to devoted hindus or pork to Muslims.

 

[ApparentRaceTraitor]

Meh. People eat insects all the time. Case in point: shrimp.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Meh. People eat insects all the time. Case in point: shrimp.

I do know people who don't like schrimps as they think they remind them of insects.