Hi.
I lived in China for a total of nearly two years and I learned to cook there. I eat all kinds of food now, but still love to cook or go out for Chinese when I can. Here's my hints on how to keep it safe: First - start your meal with rice - lots of plain white rice, not fried. Also, avoid the deep fried options - which unfortunately rules out several of the yummiest choices - no sesame chicken, no crispy beef (no beef in general for most of us) no swee and sour, no general tsao's. It is much more safe if you can stick to the choices that are more sauteed or steamed. Dim Sum (a Hong Kong innovation that involves snack type foods rolled around a restaurant in a cart) often has lots of good steamed choices - steamed buns filled with shrimp or bean paste and sticky rice combinations wrapped in banana leaves. Lots of really yummy dim sum choices. Some other generally safe choices include mugugaipan, mushu chicken or mushu vegetables, chicken lomein, or vegetable lomein, mapo tofu (be careful, this one's spicy) the chicken in the chicken and broccoli is usually safe, but I would keep the broccoli to a minimum in eating it. Also, in general, tell your waiter, and be addament, no MSG and as little oil as possible in cooking.
Good luck - also feel free to ask about specific dishes and I'll do my best on an answer 
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