[nickcarraway]

I guess they learned this from the Britsh?

[BipolarBob]

So, uh, where’s this restaurant?

[Blurb2350]

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.

[corkoman]

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.

[Mr. Blond]

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

[M Kehoe]

Coca Cola.

5.56mm

[faithhopecharity]

if there’s no MSG it must be OK!

[dfwgator]

The problem is two hours later, they want more.

[PROCON]

The worst part about going to a Chinese restaurant is waiting to be seated.

[Karliner]

Awesome! Does he do take out? Pipes included?

[ifinnegan]

“I guess they learned this from the British?”

British didn’t surreptitiously cause people to ingest it.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

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 😐

[Rebelbase]

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.

[Zhang Fei]

[I guess they learned this from the Britsh?]

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The Chinese were using harmful and addictive psychoactive substances when Britons were running around in animal skins.

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]]

[Songcraft]

Are there smoking and non-smoking sections in the restaurant?

[Billthedrill]

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.