Word: msg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With some foods, if you ask for no MSG, you'vegot no taste," he continues. "In that case, youshould just go have a salad. I believe what Ibelieve--the tasty food is what keeps peoplecoming in here...
Wong says that regulations on MSG wouldunfairly penalize Cantonese establishments likehis own, which must rely on MSG as a "pickerupper...
Wong adds that MSG represents only a tinyproportion of the spices in his dishes. He leads avisitor into his kitchen, and points out agigantic bowl of broth, sitting next to smallerbowls with salt, garlic and the white crystals ofmonosodium glutamate. "This is broth," he says. "Agood restaurant must have broth. In this big bowl,I put only a pinch of MSG...
...MSG is no more villainous to the body thanpollen...
...Some people are sensitive to certainingredients," Wong says, growing emphatic. "Somepeople are allergic to MSG, for example," he adds.Then Wong picks a crab out of a bowl and, shovingit in this reporter's face, its talons danglingdangerously just millimeters from his nose, hesays defiantly, "Some people re allergic to crabs...