Chinese Restaurant Owner Admitted to adding Drugs to His Food to Keep Customers Addicted

A Chinese restaurant owner has admitted to police that he grinds opium and adds to his bowl noodles for customersconsumption without their knowledge. This keeps them coming back for food, not knowing they were being addicted to drugs...

The restaurant owner identified as Zhang confessed to police after one of his regular customers tested positive for opium earlier this month during a routine traffic stop test.

Zhang said that he had purchased 4.4lbs of poppy buds (opium bulbs) for $100 (N16,000) in August and had been crushing them and adding them to the noodles to ‘make it taste better and to improve his business’...