When your Chinese language skills are limited to "nei hao" and "han hao" its a good idea to take a friend along to interrogate the waitresses. Those poor waitresses had to endure my interrogation via a third party. "No salt in the hot pot water."/"Is the hot pot water from the tap?"/"No ice in the cola."/"No salt."/"Is there MSG in that?"/"Is there salt in that?" I mean I can be a real pain in the neck sometimes, but this is type of painful annoyance is absolutely vital to my health. I can't deal with another dose of MSG poisoning. It's just too taxing on my system. Anyway, we got the hot pot and everything turned out fine. I refused the salted hot pot water (I didn't want to take any chances) and just stuck to pain
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