The Epoch Times
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September 27, 2021 Updated: September 27, 2021
In China, some restaurants add illegal opium poppy to their food to keep customers coming back. In late August, a restaurant in Jiangsu Province was busted for using poppy shells as seasoning after one of its customers went to the local police station with a sample of a dish he had ordered.
The illegal and harmful practice is not uncommon as it is encouraged by the highly competitive and morally corrupt business environment in China, one observer noted.