Chinese diners find eight cockroaches in their hotpot
Woman thought the dark shells in her spicy broth were medicinal herbs … until she bit into one
They might have been on the planet for 300 million years longer than humans. They might also have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years.
But when you sit down to eat a steaming bowl of hotpot, the last thing you want to find floating in your spicy soup is a cockroach, let alone eight of them.
Unfortunately for two women at a restaurant in Haikou, capital of southern China’s Hainan province, that was exactly what was on the menu earlier this week, according to a report by Huaxi City Daily.
The two friends, identified by their surnames Zhang and Zhao, were quoted as saying that it was only when one of them bit into one of the six-legged creepy-crawlies that they realised exactly what they were dining on.
“Zhao said she could feel the texture of the insect’s legs in her mouth,” Zhang said, adding that before the shocking realisation, they thought the dark shells in the hotpot were medicinal herbs.