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Q: Hooked on opium yet ?
This evening CCTV1 news had a story that restaurateurs around China spice up soups with some good ol' opium poppy. This done, to make customers feel high, thus enjoy the food more, and the story on TV said this was hot-pot restaurants. . A quick Googling reveals this is not a new thing, some older stories claim that up to 80% of restaurants do this, although I would not rely to much on such statistics.
10 years 50 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Being a medical student, I remember one lecturer tell us a similar story few years back, however, he explained their motive being to make customers crave for the food then start frequenting the restaurant!
damn, another reason i have to get off my lazy ass and learn to cook here in china,
sometimes i dont want to know anything. ignorance is bliss.
Please ask me later. I feel tired, weak and dizzy. I'm not really interested in your question or anything else. Maybe later ok? OK just forget it.
Man, I was taken out to dinner at a really fancy and upscale restaurant today. I think I got high off the kourou... I was feeling pretty good afterwards. Somehow I'm all bloody right now... hope I didn't get hopped up on crack.
Wifeybuns: A lot of restaurants do that to keep your business. They just put a little bit in the noodles so you will like it and come again to eat it.
Scandinavian:
Classic failed strategy. If everyone does it, no one will gain the loyalty they are chasing. It's like selling a car with a factory mounted ping pong ball on the antenna to make it easier to find in the carpark
Hulk:
Yeah, exactly.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go eat noodles. . . 
Isn't opium really illegal? And expensive? I can't see putting even 50y of opium in 5y of noodles.
Scandinavian:
from the look of the segment on TV they are in fact using it in a number of different ways, from poppy seeds (which is close to impossible to get any reaction from) to dripping morphine into the soup. Some also boiled the entire poppy flower with soups, and here you would get the juice which is where the opiates are.
TedDBayer:
I love poppy seed pastry, something you can't get in China. My secret ingredient in my carrot cake is poppy seeds.
No, I am not hooked yet, already hooked on booze and cigs, so if I got hooked on that there would not be a 12 step program that could keep me clean.
I have to agree agree with ambivalentmace...ignorence is bliss here...I don't need to know this or anything else...I love the soup here....soooooo gooood.
