HK Sushi Restaurants Brace for Cost Jump After Japan Seafood Ban
- Curbs cover food from 10 prefectures, in line with mainland
- City’s restaurants seeking new suppliers to shore up menus
This article is for subscribers only.
Hong Kong’s restaurants are reshaping their supply chains after the government banned seafood from parts of Japan, bringing the financial hub’s curbs more in line with Beijing despite scientific reassurances the products are safe to eat.
The city will block purchases of seafood from 10 Japanese prefectures including Tokyo as the nation begins releasing treated wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. Violations of the ban are punishable by up to a year in jail.