One Million Cockroaches in One Room; Video Shows China's Roach Farm, a 'Booming Business' [Watch Here]

There are many unusual dishes in the world, with some you've even haven't probably heard of. However, some involve critters that you are no stranger to. In fact, some of them may be scuttling about in some dark corner of your house. 

Say hello to cockroach cuisine. Or cockroach cure-all. Or maybe you'd rather not. A good number of people in China would, though, especially those making good business with these insects, like Wang Fuming.

"I love these cockroaches, I feel very close to them," Jinan, China's "kingpin of cockroaches" told CNN. His dream is "to put roaches on plates and bowls throughout China as a high protein meal." He currently owns and operates a cockroach farm that is home to no less than a million of such creepy crawlies.

"He keeps the roaches in warehouses with narrow corridors and hives made of cement roof shingles," described CNN correspondent David McKenzie. "Stepping inside is like a waking nightmare or a scene from the film 'Alien.' There's a strong smell of ammonia and the sound of scuttling legs."

These creatures are sold by the ton to various pharmaceutical firms in China, the reporter added. "They are usually ground and stuffed into pills and advertised as a cure for all manner of stomach, heart, and liver ailments."

Back in December 2013, CBS News had interviewed Wang for a feature about China's booming cockroach business.

"I've been interested in insects since I was 8 years old," he told the news outlet. "Business is very good. Many pharmaceutical factories make products with them."

"They feed the roaches wheat shavings and vegetables for four months. Then they're boiled, dried and some are crushed to put into pill form, which is much easier to stomach," the news source explained.

He reportedly makes about $160,000 annually from his roaches.

Wang is not the only roach farmer, of course. Many other locals have taken to making money out of farming the bugs, which have been conventionally considered a pest in many parts of the world.

Interestingly, in August 2013, Discovery reported that no less than a million cockroaches made a getaway from a farm in Dafeng in Jiangsu, a province in the eastern side of the country. The roaches reported headed for the cornfields that surrounded the facility "after an "unknown perpetrator" destroyed the plastic greenhouse where they were raised."

"Disease control authorities have sent five investigators to the area to come up with a plan to stamp out the insects," the site continued. "Farm owner Wang Pengsheng invested more than 100,000 yuan ($16,000) in 102 kilograms of Periplaneta americana eggs after spending six months developing a business plan."

"He had expected to make around 1,000 yuan profit for every kilogram of cockroaches sold," Discovery noted. Instead, he stood to lose hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Perhaps he could take some notes from the roach kingpin to keep that from happening again.

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