DENVER — After decades of bad studies and science around the country, people are pushing to end the myth that MSG is bad for you. On a Friday night, it's hard to find an open seat at Denver restaurant MAKfam. "It's been awesome.
We hit the ground running," said Kenneth Wan, MAKfam co-owner and chef. For Wan and wife Doris Yuen, opening up their own spot just off Broadway was a perfect fit. "I've been a restaurant kid my entire life," Wan said.
"So food and beverage just comes second nature to me." “My mom and dad worked in restaurants. My dad’s a chef from Hong Kong, so growing up, I was always eating a lot of good, yummy food.
I always wanted him to open a restaurant," said Yuen, general manager and co-owner at MAKfam. "Then, I ended up marrying my own chef, and now we have this restaurant together." When it came to the cooking, they knew there was one ingredient they wouldn't leave out.
"We use it like we would use salt or soy sauce. We sprinkle a little bit to enhance the meaty umami flavor of our dishes," Yuen said. "And we want to let people know that there's no harm in eating MSG.
" MSG. Also known as monosodium glutamate. "People think like oh, Chinese food is not good for you, gives me a headache, gives me palpitations, all these issues and it's due to MSG, it's unhealthy.
But that's a myth," Yuen said. You've heard the stories, the rumors before. But is MSG actually bad for you? "That is a very complicated question.
And so, the bottom line is actually no," said .
