Posted on 09/08/2020 3:19:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Chinese Restaurant Operator is in big trouble after he laced his noodles with Opium drugs in an attempt to keep customers coming back.
Chinese Guangxi Province-based restaurant intended to get patrons addicted and increase the chances of them coming back for more.
The restaurateur’s dirty trick was uncovered by mistake, after someone who ate at his local in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County tested positive for morphine, the active component in opium, during a police inspection.
The shocked man insisted that he had not willingly taken drugs, and told investigators that the only thing he had ingested that he couldn’t vouch for was a bowl of noodles at a local restaurant.
That’s how police ended up making a surprise visit to the noodle shop in question, where they took a packet of snail powder which tested positive for morphine.
After making the initial finding police handed the case over to the Sanjiang County Administration for Market Supervision, which subsequently visited the noodle restaurant again and discovered 76 grams of poppy seed powder. The owner of the establishment, a man surnamed Yang, was arrested and later admitted that he had been using the powder as a secret ingredient to get customers addicted and coming back for more.
Asked how he had come by the poppy seed powder, Yang told police that he had used the husks of poppies that he himself had planted several years before. The case is still under investigation.
Interestingly, the practice of lacing noodles with opium to get people addicted and increase business is not new in China. One of the first reported cases dates back to 2014, when a restaurant owner in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, admitted to lacing his noodles with opium. He was exposed after a customer tested positive for morphine.
At the beginning of 2016, it was confirmed that the Yan’an case was not an isolated one, as Chinese media outlets reported that three dozen other restaurants were investigated for lacing their food with addictive opium, of which some had already been prosecuted.
t was a French Chinese place?
They won’t hang him, they’ll cut him up for parts.
The wait isn’t as bad as being put on the no delivery list.
During WWII a japanese general skimming profits from a cigarette factory in china laced the smokes with opium and addicted a large portion of the population.
Asking for a friend of course.
Of course.
[I guess they learned this from the Britsh?]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-Food_Powder
As to opium, it replaced the prior witch’s brew (linked above) of literally poisonous substances in the 7th century, long before Brits had even heard of China, let alone traveled there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China
[Historical accounts suggest that opium first arrived in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907) as part of the merchandise of Arab traders.[11] Later on, Song Dynasty (960–1279) poet and pharmacologist Su Dongpo recorded the use of opium as a medicinal herb: “Daoists often persuade you to drink the jisu water, but even a child can prepare the yingsu[A] soup.”[12]]
>>So, uh, where’s this restaurant?<<
Asking for a friend...lol
I guess I should get my snail powder tested, just in case.
Oh, man. First, no more bat soup. Then they take my Pangolin-on-a-stick away. Now the snail powder has to go. I’m gonna starve to death at this rate.
George likes his chicken spicy
On Amazon, no tobacco in modern version but no mention of no opium. ;-)
I’ll buy the first round of noodle soup...
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