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ES ARTICLE: A SUSHI-HISTORY LESSON

How times have changed.

These days, with sushi an everyday choice for many Londoners, it’s easy to forget what an innovation it was when Caroline Bennett opened the first conveyor belt ‘kaiten’ sushi restaurant in the city way back in 1994.

This article from a 1996 issue of the Evening Standard’s ES magazine gives Moshi Moshi a lovely review and looks at how we were seen to be changing Londoners’ eating habits with our brand of fast, healthy, authentic Japanese food with a slight English accent.

They say journalism is the first draft of history, and while the author’s predictions for sushi restaurants based on small rivers of floating plates rather than conveyor belts may not have come to pass, Londoners have definitely learned to love our sakemaki rolls and pickled ginger, wasabi and saba, just as much as we hoped they would.

Read the Evening Standard review here

“Now in its 11th year, this is the original of three City-based conveyor-belt sushi joints. Much of the fish used – including sea bass, mackerel, red mullet and spider crabs – arrives fresh daily from Cornwall. Try also the gyoza (pan-fried pork dumplings), yakitori (grilled free-range chicken skewers) and tempura (seafood and/or vegetables in an incredibly light, crisp batter).”