The cockroach business has become quite popular in China not for their taste but their medicinal value. The cockroach has to be fried twice in a wok of smoking hot oil before it is ingested.
“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.”
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