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Chinese Restaurant Operator Uses Opium To Get More Customers (No MSG)
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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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: china; drugs; eastindiacompany; morphine; msg; noodles; opium; opiumwars; poppy; unitedkingdom
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I guess they learned this from the Britsh?
1 posted on 09/08/2020 3:19:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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So, uh, where’s this restaurant?


2 posted on 09/08/2020 3:21:25 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The cost of abortion is a human sacrifice.)
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To: BipolarBob

Guangxi Province, China.

I’m wondering about that snail powder, myself...


3 posted on 09/08/2020 3:28:11 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: nickcarraway

The Chinese are a merchant race; this is just what they do. They added melamine to petfood (for export) and propylene glycol to baby formula (ditto) for the very same reason.


4 posted on 09/08/2020 3:29:05 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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First off - opium tastes like hell. If there was enough to absorb and make one feel something it would ruin the dish. And its not cheap inside China where they hang people for opium/heroin running.

But it sounds like a brilliant marketing strategy - if there was none to be found in the kitchen. If he is making all this up its super good subliminal / suggestive advertising! Unless they hang him.

5 posted on 09/08/2020 3:38:18 PM PDT by corkoman
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Unless they hang him.

That would being in even more business?

6 posted on 09/08/2020 3:43:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So THAT’S why you crave more after 20 minutes.


7 posted on 09/08/2020 3:48:48 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: nickcarraway

Coca Cola.

5.56mm


8 posted on 09/08/2020 3:49:10 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: nickcarraway

if there’s no MSG it must be OK!


9 posted on 09/08/2020 3:50:19 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: nickcarraway

The problem is two hours later, they want more.


10 posted on 09/08/2020 3:51:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway; SaveFerris; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; Rebelbase
The worst part about going to a Chinese restaurant is waiting to be seated.


11 posted on 09/08/2020 3:51:33 PM PDT by PROCON (MOLON LABE)
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To: nickcarraway

Awesome! Does he do take out? Pipes included?


12 posted on 09/08/2020 3:58:51 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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The spicy chicken tho!


13 posted on 09/08/2020 4:03:44 PM PDT by Gamecock ("O God, break the teeth in their mouths." - Psalm 58:6)
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To: nickcarraway

“I guess they learned this from the British?”

British didn’t surreptitiously cause people to ingest it.


14 posted on 09/08/2020 4:04:44 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: corkoman

You make good observations.

If there’s not enough to taste and people don’t notice getting high there’s not enough to cause addiction.

I think these restaurateurs doping the food are just morons.


15 posted on 09/08/2020 4:06:59 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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16 posted on 09/08/2020 4:07:04 PM PDT by Gamecock ("O God, break the teeth in their mouths." - Psalm 58:6)
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To: ifinnegan

I wouldn’t be so sure. The British fought two wars for the ability to continue to be a drug cartel in China.


17 posted on 09/08/2020 4:07:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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“I wouldn’t be so sure. The British fought two wars for the ability to continue to be a drug cartel in China.”

Yes. But there was a market. They did not secretly dope people with it.

They off-loaded it in bulk at the docks.

The Chinese clientele took it from there.


18 posted on 09/08/2020 4:09:16 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway
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.

Um 😐

19 posted on 09/08/2020 4:09:38 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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20 posted on 09/08/2020 4:11:16 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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