• Chinese restaurants shut down after seasoning food with opium to 'hook' customers
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[QUOTE]35 restaurants across China have been found illegally using opium as seasoning in their food, state officials say. Five restaurants are being prosecuted over the findings, whilst 30 more are under investigation, according to the China Food and Drug Administration. The eateries include a popular chain of hot pot restaurants in Beijing. It is unclear how the opium came to enter the food, however, previous cases in China have seen chefs try to ‘hook’ customers on their food through use of the narcotic which can cause serious addiction. Source : [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-restaurants-shut-for-seasoning-food-with-opium-a6826971.html[/url][/QUOTE]
It's pretty insensitive to even mention opium after the disaster of the 18th and 19th century opium epidemic in China. But seriously, raw opium should be legally available again. Once I own enough land I will consider cultivating papaver somniferum for my own personal use. Until then, kratom will suffice.
As if MSG wasn't addictive enough. [editline]asdsa[/editline] Fuck, now I'm craving sweet and sour chicken.
[QUOTE=ahmedsalaam69;49588472]It's pretty insensitive to even mention opium after the disaster of the 18th and 19th century opium epidemic in China. But seriously, raw opium should be legally available again. Once I own enough land I will consider cultivating papaver somniferum for my own personal use. Until then, kratom will suffice.[/QUOTE] Have you [I]seen[/I] what opiates do to people?
[QUOTE=ahmedsalaam69;49588472]It's pretty insensitive to even mention opium after the disaster of the 18th and 19th century opium epidemic in China. But seriously, raw opium should be legally available again. Once I own enough land I will consider cultivating papaver somniferum for my own personal use. Until then, kratom will suffice.[/QUOTE] you know raw opium is really really addictive right? medical doses are usually much smaller than that and we still have an epidemic of opioid addictions also in response to the article only in china...
[QUOTE=ahmedsalaam69;49588472]It's pretty insensitive to even mention opium after the disaster of the 18th and 19th century opium epidemic in China. But seriously, raw opium should be legally available again. Once I own enough land I will consider cultivating papaver somniferum for my own personal use. Until then, kratom will suffice.[/QUOTE] That sounds.. really illegal?
now is this better or worse than the Chinese restaurants that don't clean their cooking stations, tools, and woks "for flavor"?
[QUOTE=General J;49588613]now is this better or worse than the Chinese restaurants that don't clean their cooking stations, tools, and woks "for flavor"?[/QUOTE] i think better than the restaurants that buy gutter oil which is litterally garbage [t]http://www.mobilefoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CHINA-OIL-2.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=General J;49588613]now is this better or worse than the Chinese restaurants that don't clean their cooking stations, tools, and woks "for flavor"?[/QUOTE] I take it you don't cook, because you've clearly never heard of the concept of "seasoning" a pan.
[QUOTE=Sableye;49588570]only in china...[/QUOTE] You know, here in the 'Nam there were once rumors of a dessert stall injecting some sort of drugs into their dishes to keep the customers going, not sure what type, some say heroin while others says opium. But hey, when you have the "news" spreading more food-related rumors than the US army spreading Agent Orange (like how people make cooking oil from diesel and RAW SEWAGE, eggs and rice from plastic, squid calamari from tire rubber, boil corn with AA batteries, or the latest fiasco with a dead fly sitting inside a bottle of sweet tea for 3 months), anything can happen, to be honest. But then again, Chinese and nations under their influence often have zero ethics when it comes to business (like how we keep fishes fresh by fertilizer, or pouring motor oil on veggies to keep em fresh, not to mention chemical coffee and all sorts of drugs used to make plants and animals double their size within 24 hrs.), so you guys should really consider where you're going to eat. (Japan and Korea are the exception, since they are well-disciplined.)
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;49588534]Have you [I]seen[/I] what opiates do to people?[/QUOTE] More like, have you seen what people do to themselves with opium?
[QUOTE=Fourier;49590591]More like, have you seen what people do to themselves with opium?[/QUOTE] dont do this
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The Civil Opium War
[QUOTE=alexglitch;49590380]But then again, Chinese and nations under their influence often have zero ethics when it comes to business (like how we keep fishes fresh by fertilizer, or pouring motor oil on veggies to keep em fresh, not to mention chemical coffee and all sorts of drugs used to make plants and animals double their size within 24 hrs.), so you guys should really consider where you're going to eat. (Japan and Korea are the exception, since they are well-disciplined.)[/QUOTE] I stopped eating Chinese food altogether, virtually every Chinese restaurant in my area has been shut down at one point for things like getting caught hauling roadkill and preparing it in the kitchen. Then you have the FDA raid on the warehouse that supplies food for a large number of eastern Chinese restaurants where they found all sorts of nasty stuff (rat nests in thawing meat boxes, food sitting in rat urine, employees smoking while handling food, etc). Incidentally the only Chinese restaurant in town that doesn't have an encyclopedia's worth of health code violations isn't run by Chinese people.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;49590252]I take it you don't cook, because you've clearly never heard of the concept of "seasoning" a pan.[/QUOTE] I would never, ever eat food cooked by anyone who thinks 'seasoning' means 'don't clean your cookware'. Seasoning a pan is rubbing oil into it and exposing to high heat so that the oil polymerizes to form a protective shell, it still has to be cleaned after use. It has nothing to do with leaving food on your cookware which is not only a restaurant code violation but a legitimate health hazard and downright gross.
[QUOTE=catbarf;49591593]I would never, ever eat food cooked by anyone who thinks 'seasoning' means 'don't clean your cookware'. Seasoning a pan is rubbing oil into it and exposing to high heat so that the oil polymerizes to form a protective shell, it still has to be cleaned after use. It has nothing to do with leaving food on your cookware which is not only a restaurant code violation but a legitimate health hazard and downright gross.[/QUOTE] I was a delivery guy for a chinese restraunt for the better part of a year. If the chef doesn't water and wash/clean the pan after every different dish, he's doing it wrong. If the chef has to make like 6 orders of rice in 10 minutes, he's not cleaning the wok every time, but he's cleaning it when he goes to make the next different dish. That's how it should be done as far as I know.
[QUOTE]China Food and Drug Administration.[/QUOTE] I pity these people. They must be overworked and seeing crazy shit everyday.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49591718]I pity these people. They must be overworked and seeing crazy shit everyday.[/QUOTE] Between fake eggs, milk, water and cracking down on gutter oil. I'd say if you can think of it, they've likely seen it.
[QUOTE=Sableye;49588636]i think better than the restaurants that buy gutter oil which is litterally garbage [t]http://www.mobilefoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CHINA-OIL-2.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] that makes me sick
[QUOTE=catbarf;49591593]I would never, ever eat food cooked by anyone who thinks 'seasoning' means 'don't clean your cookware'. Seasoning a pan is rubbing oil into it and exposing to high heat so that the oil polymerizes to form a protective shell, it still has to be cleaned after use. It has nothing to do with leaving food on your cookware which is not only a restaurant code violation but a legitimate health hazard and downright gross.[/QUOTE] My point is, the restaurants clean it too, and if they don't clean it it's not for flavour, it's because they are lazy.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49591856]that makes me sick[/QUOTE] Then imagine how sick you would [I]really [/I]be if you ate food cooked/fried in literal filtered garbage juice
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