South china Morning Post reports that he admitted adding opium to dishes in secret in the hope that customers would keep coming back for more.
His activities were exposed after a 26-year-old customer, Liu Juyou, tested positive during a routine urine test under an anti-drink-driving programme.
Liu, detained for 15 days was unable to convince police of his suspicions that the drug must have come from the food he ate at his local noodle shop in northern Shaanxi province.
He then asked relatives to help him test the theory, eating noodles at the restaurant and going home to take urine tests. The relatives tried it and tested positive. They alerted the police who immediately launched an investigation.
Although Liu was released, his appeal was dismissed by police who insisted their priority was to punish drug users, regardless of intent.
Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). It contains approximately 12% of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade.
An anti-narcotics police agent said that chemicals from poppy build up in the body and produce a positive drug test. He said that if the food is ingested over a long period of time, it would have an addictive effect.
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