Chinese funeral home is fed up with fake mourners: ‘They only come to eat free noodles’
Things have been very busy lately at the Erlong Funeral Home in China’s Guizhou province. Not because lots of neighbours have suddenly died. No, the funeral home’s cafeteria is drawing huge crowds. The noodles on the menu are so popular that the number of fake mourners is now impossible to count.
These aren’t people coming to shed a tear for someone who has died. They’re people shedding tears of happiness because they have an insanely delicious bowl of noodles in their hands.
What a bunch of fake mourners
The noodle dish includes, among other things, pork and peanuts. Because it is apparently so delicious, the dish has gone completely viral on social media. Lots of people came by—simply as if they were visiting a cosy lunch spot in the city—to try the noodles. That only made the dish more popular, and the funeral home busier.
But Erlong’s employees have had enough. It is, of course, utterly bizarre that dozens of fake mourners are standing among people who are genuinely grieving, purely to come and eat a bowl of noodles. And distinguishing between these two groups is more difficult than you might think. The funeral home has now come up with a plan to give away 50 free bowls to visitors every day. On one condition: the genuine mourners must not be disturbed.
Life is too short for bad noodles
The queue for the noodles, which is probably longer than the condolence queue, will therefore likely remain for a while. BBC reports that videos of the noodles and the funeral home are being widely shared on Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok). One visitor wrote: “I heard that the noodles here were very good. I thought about how short life is, and had another bowl.”
Well, in life, you should of course always eat good noodles. That goes without saying. We would definitely kill for these coconut curry noodles, noodles with steak and Turkish noodles with cheese and walnuts.
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Source: BBC
