10,000 Waves a good restaurant
Great to read Anne Hillerman’s review of the 10,000 Waves Japanese Restaurant and that she is carrying on Tony’s great work.
I used to go to many Japanese restaurants since Japanese cuisine is among the healthiest in the world, but no longer due to the amount of additives, not the case at the 10,000 Waves restaurant. There is one Japanese restaurant in town that I can’t even consider going to anymore. The miso soup comes from a mix that proclaims it has no MSG, but I still get the effects of MSG. Real miso soup was part of what they fed atomic bomb victims, who survived and prospered, as opposed to those who died in American administered hospitals after eating Jello, mashed potatoes and fried chicken.
This restaurant owner further assured me that the eels are from Taiwan, but the shipping boxes say mainland China and that they are cooked with MSG. If you question Chinese eel quality, Google David Barboza’s NY Times 2007 article: “Last April, the F.D.A. refused four shipments of roasted eel from a nearby Xulong factory [the largest in China] because they contained residues of banned antibiotics that could prove harmful to consumers,” and “In May alone, regulators tagged ‘filthy frozen scallops’; catfish, eel and shrimp laced with banned chemicals; unsafe additives; pesticides; and cancer-causing agents.” Mostly, the restaurant serves farmed salmon; have you ever seen a farmed salmon before being butchered? The head is the size of a soccer ball, lesions are on the body as they are fed dead salmon parts, plus orange food coloring to make the flesh appear orange!
Even the condiment ginger is grown then cooked in Mainland China after being marinated in a sauce containing both MSG and aspartame. As partame-containing products are required to state that they contain phenylalanine, with a warning for phenylketoneurics, who can go into anaphylactic shock, yet when did you ever see a menu in a Japanese restaurant warning you about aspartame in the Chinese ginger, served to “cleanse the taste buds.”
I don’t want to be lied to about what I am eating and I don’t want to suffer health effects from cuisine containing “tenkabutsu,” or additives. It makes perfect sense at the 10,000 Waves restaurant to serve beef (wagyu) and NO fish sushi. I wish Duke and the staff up there the very best of luck in the new restaurant venture!
STEPHEN FOX Santa Fe