On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 4:25:59 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
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> I never used to worry about it. My co-workers and I used to go out for
> Chinese food frequently and never had a problem. Then we tried a place
> we had never been to before. They had a combo dinner at a price it was
> hard to say know to. There was something in that food that did a number
> on our guts. It was way too fast to be food poisoning. We got back to
> work and there was a mad rush for the one bathroom and people begging
> others to hurry before they lost it. One of the guys was sensitive to
> MSG and had a bad headache.

It's fairly obvious that MSG had no part in this horrible experience. That you got food poisoning in a Chinese restaurant is not surprising at all. Take it from me, you don't want to know what goes on back there in the kitchen. It's a risk we all take when eating pake kaukau.

If I was investigating this, the first thing I'd check is the rice. That's the most likely cause of the poisoning.