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

· By Fran Lu
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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…

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