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Q: Noodle scandal the next food scandal - what do you avoid eating?

Was just reading about the opium laced noodles, but also the gutter oil that was in the instant noodles from Taiwan... Another food scandal. What do you guys avoid eating? 

 

I still am a bit dubious about McDs even though they have changed supplier.

9 years 26 weeks ago in  Food  - China

 
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Small restaurants have become a no go for me. And I never eat at MacDonald's anyway. Can't trust a brand where I don't have a clue about 90% of the ingredients in the bread.

 

When I feel dary, I usually go to some Sichuan place, might not be 100% foolproof but at least my stomach is cauterized before anything harmful can touch it.

When I want to eat good Chinese food, I go to the only place it is available in China: Hong Kong.

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99% of noodle shops put a little bit of opium in the noodles. EVERYONE knows this in China. They want you to get addicted and go back for more...

mArtiAn:

God bless you dude, but that is the most adorable load of bollocks you've ever said on here. Thumbs up.

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Hulk:

WRONG. My wife told me all about it. Take a testing kit and put it in the noodle soup.

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mArtiAn:

  Jesus, i've just gone and asked the wife, expecting to come back and take the piss after she confirmed it was nonsense, but nope, seems you may be right. Very doubtful about the 99% bit though.

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dongbeiren:

So ten kuai noodle shops putting drugs in their soup.... Didn't know drugs were so cheap

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Hulk:

Drugs are cheap in small quantities, especially opium. You can fucking grow it in your back yard/in your house.

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mArtiAn:

  I can? Smashing.

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TedDBayer:

A low dose of opium won't affect you even if taken daily, no chance of addiction. I've had morphine prescribed several times for pain, I'm not addicted. The last prescription never even got used. If anything is added to noodles, it's salt.

9 years 25 weeks ago
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Hulk:

Most Chinese don't know that, though.

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I don't go in eat out anymore since 2 years after I arrived in China, not because of fear but because I got tired of it (always taste the same no matter where you go), that was 5 years ago, I mostly cook by myself, I don't mean it's safer in any way, there are tons of food scandals involving fresh produces (e.g. adulterated pickled vegetables, fake eggs, ...) but I can avoid ~80% of food scandals that are happening in restaurants and street food stands.

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I just eat at home wherever possible-I don't like worrying so much about what I'm eating. 

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Opium is too expensive to put in noodles. It's probably smuggled with flour, I can see cross contamination.

Hulk:

No, opium can be grown in your damn house.

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TedDBayer:

poppy is not opium

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Hulk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum

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TedDBayer:

I'll have 1000Y of opium in my 5Y bowl of noodles please.

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The opium and gutter oil are both old stories. I think the opium story was just "yet another restaurateur getting caught"

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I avoid eating loads of stuff but now I hear about noodles laced with opium, I have to say, I have something of a hankering for some noodles.

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Bring on the opium lolsurprise. I eat at home 95% of the time so not worried.

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I'm more upset about the jerk who laced my opium with noodles. 

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Either you eat food in China, get poisoned and die, or you avoid the food here, and die of hunger, chose one.

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Freakin' typical Chinese!

 

The "Land of Great Injustice and Victimisation" still prattle on endlessly about the big bad British aggressors forcing opium on them. Now they use the damn stuff to lace food and attract customers!

 

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Do you ever wonder why some Chinese people have poppy flowers growing in their homes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum

 

Do you ever wonder why there are so many beautiful flower fields in certain places? http://image.baidu.com/i?tn=baiduimage&ps=1&ct=201326592&lm=-1&cl=2&nc=1...

 

BECAUSE OPIUM IS HUGE IN CHINA. You can add really small quantities to noodles.

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opium is nothing compared to formaldehyde. shops use it to keep their produce fresh and white coloured… bon appetit!

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