Cockroach coffee: China museum offers insect brew for US$6, assures patrons of its safety
Bug-themed venue in capital city offers visitors range of caffeine boosts laced with yellow mealworms, digestive juices of carnivorous plant
A museum in Beijing has launched a creepy-crawly coffee brew which has ground-down cockroaches sprinkled on the surface of the drink.
Aside from the insect powders, the caffeine pick-me-up is laced with dried yellow mealworms.
Drinkers say it has a “burnt and slightly sour” flavour, the news outlet The Cover reported.
The roach coffee is on sale at the coffee shops of an insect museum in the capital city of China; it costs 45 yuan (US$6) a cup. The museum’s name was not given in the report.
“We launched this type of coffee at the end of June and it trended on the internet recently,” an employee of the museum told the media.
“As an insect-themed museum, it seemed like a good idea to have drinks that match,” he added.
Their new series also includes specially made beverages using a pitcher plant’s digestive juice and a limited edition drink made with ants.
