Although there are various mouth-watering palates in China, a ten-year-old girl from the country, prefers to eat her hair.

Niu Niu is forced to pay a heavy price for her habit when the hair that she had been swallowing since she was three-years-old, formed a hair ball and attached itself to her stomach linings.

Even though her parents tried to stop her from eating her hair, she nevertheless continued to do so.

Last year, Niu Niu started complaining that her stomach hurts and she would often vomit.

When her parents brought her to the hospital, doctors, who detected the hair ball inside her stomach, had to use the Laparoscope method remove the hairball.

The hair ball that was extracted from her stomach measured 23cm.