{
  "id": 16734428,
  "title": "China eatery creates egg tarts topped with ‘giant cockroaches’, drawing widespread curiosity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/china-eatery-creates-egg-tarts-topped-with-giant-cockroaches-drawing",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T10:00:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3372291/china-eatery-creates-egg-tarts-topped-giant-cockroaches-drawing-widespread-curiosity"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}