all seen the trending videos on social media of tourists sampling the stinky tofu at our neighbourhood “Pasar Malam” and walking away satisfied, but a woman and her sister experienced the latter.how she and her sister had to be admitted in the ICU for food poisoning after consuming stinky tofu at a KL night market.
She began experiencing stomach aches the following morning while eating breakfast with her friends, but she didn’t take it seriously since she thought it was menstruation cramps. “I thought I was going to pass out at that point from tiredness. That day, I had already urinated 14 times and puked three times,“ she recalled.
Unknowingly, she had finally discovered she had a bacterium called Vibrio, which is akin to Cholera, in her stomach.