According to the Heilongjiang Daily, 46-year-old Cheng Shumei lives in Datong Village where every villager there knows Cheng for her odd eating habits.

Cheng told the reporter that at the beginning she drank gasoline on the sly. At that time she had to find excuses to ask her neighbors for gasoline, and hid the bottle in the corner of her house. Later, when gasoline became more difficult to obtain, she switched to diesel, which was easier to get as her family had purchased a tractor for farming.

Surprisingly, Cheng has developed a refined taste for diesel. She can tell the quality of the diesel by the taste. “I can tell if the diesel is purified once I taste it,” Cheng said.

Cheng says that drinking the fuel warms her throat and makes her feel great. The only bad reaction she has experienced is an itchy throat when she drinks too much. She drinks about one 50 grams of gas a day. Without gas Cheng would feel sick and uncomfortable all over, accompanied by continuous choking hiccups.

About four or five years ago, Cheng suddenly changed her preference. One day, while looking for something in her storage room, she caught the scent of HCH powder, which to her, smelled great. “It was so delicious! Even better than gas and diesel.” From then on, she gave up gas and switched to HCH powder.

Cheng purchases HCH from a local seed-supply station. Employees warn her of its dangers every time she buys the pesticide.

Cheng said that she wants to give up this weird habit. “I have seen many doctors, but no one could diagnose my problems. My best hope is to find a hospital with technologies advanced enough to cure my strange disease and stop my HCH addiction.”