Owner of restaurant jailed for serving Opium laced noodles to ensure repeat custom

An owner of a Chinese restaurant has been jailed following admission that he had been lacing his signature noodle dish with Opium in an attempt to pro

15:53 26 September 2014

The Chinese chef admitted to lacing a noodle dish with Opium after a diner tests positive for drugs during a routine traffic stop.

 

An owner of a Chinese restaurant has been jailed following admission that he had been lacing his signature noodle dish with Opium in an attempt to promote repeat business.

 

The admission came after one of his regular customers tested positive for the drug during a routine traffic stop earlier this month. The customer, 26-year-old Liu Juyou, got the shock after tested positive for Opium, which is processed chemically to make the highly-addictive drug, heroin.

 

Meanwhile, the Chinese chef, known only as Zhang, admitted buying 4.4lbs of poppy buds in August to crush into the noodle dish to “make it taste better and to improve his business.”

 

The chef was jailed for 10 days, while Mr Joyou had to spend 15 days behind bars after police dismissed his appeal, saying their priority was to detect drugs.