Janet Yellen
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks to reporters during her trip to China.
  • Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen inadvertently consumed magic mushrooms during a visit to China.
  • Yellen says she didn't trip on the shrooms, and properly cooking them kills the psychedelic properties.
  • The dish sold out at the chain's other locations after Yellen ate there.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen almost took her trip to China a little too literally.

Yellen said she was unaware that the "delicious mushroom dish" she ordered at a popular Chinese restaurant contained mushrooms that could be hallucinogenic. 

"I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties," Yellen told CNN's Erin Burnett. "I learned that later."