Chinese foodies pose as mourners to try funeral home's noodles

Foodies successful China person been reportedly flocking to an improbable destination - a ceremonial location - aft its noodles went viral connected societal media.

The crockery is catered to customers of the Erlong Funeral Home successful the southwestern state of Guizhou.

But arsenic connection began to dispersed astir its noodles, the ceremonial location began attracting hordes of diners with immoderate posing arsenic mourners to effort the food.

Erlong has since announced it volition let some members of the nationalist to devour astatine its premises, arsenic agelong arsenic they do not disturb genuine mourners.

The ceremonial location offers assorted types of noodle dishes during meal and supper hours, which outgo 10 yuan per vessel ($1.38; £1.09).

The astir fashionable benignant is reportedly the noodles topped with minced pork and peanuts.

One Erlong idiosyncratic told Jiupai News that they "only served customers who travel to the ceremonial location to grip matters".

But different radical person been sneaking successful to get a vessel of noodles, the idiosyncratic said, adding that sometimes queues astatine Erlong are truthful agelong that diners sometimes person to hold a mates of hours to get their food.

"There person been radical pretending to beryllium relatives of the deceased, it's hard to archer them isolated erstwhile it gets crowded, and it's hard to manage," helium said.

To conscionable the demand, the ceremonial location has since decided to connection 50 bowls of noodles to members of the nationalist each time - for escaped - arsenic agelong arsenic "they bash not impact people's mourning", according to Erlong's cook successful an interrogation with section media.

The craze for the noodles appeared to person begun earlier this period erstwhile a societal media idiosyncratic posted astir the crockery portion visiting a person successful Guizhou, which is known for its spicy and sour dishes.

"My person says the nutrient astatine this ceremonial location is truthful good," they wrote earlier this period connected Xiaohongshu, besides known arsenic RedNote. "The queue for nutrient is longer than the queue to laic flowers for the deceased."

"I didn't get to devour the noodles, due to the fact that my friend's mum didn't cognize anyone who was holding a ceremonial service."

Since then, galore Chinese societal media users person besides shared their experiences eating the noodles.

On Douyin, the Chinese mentation of TikTok, 1 idiosyncratic shared a photograph of the eating hall's tickets, with what appeared to beryllium a assemblage queuing up for food.

"I heard the noodles present were precise good," they wrote. "I thought astir however abbreviated beingness was, and got different bowl."