Bangkok restaurants stop serving fish from Fukushima amid fears of backlash

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Bangkok restaurants stop serving fish from Fukushima amid fears of backlash

 

FUKUSHIMA - Eleven Japanese restaurants in the Thai capital of Bangkok have stopped serving imported fish caught off the coast of the Fukushima prefectural city of Soma, the prefectural government has said.

 

According to Mainichi Shimbun, the decision of the restaurants came following fears that they might experience a backlash and a reduction in customer numbers - fueled by citizen group protests that have spread online - even though Thailand does not restrict the import of goods from Fukushima Prefecture.

 

Consignments of fresh seafood including flounder, fluke and octopus have been exported from Fukushima to Thailand since late February - the first export of seafood from the prefecture since the disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in 2011.

 

Full story: http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bangkok-restaurants-stop-serving-fish-from-fukushima-amid-fears-of-backlash

 

-- THE STRAITS TIMES 2018-03-14

 

[inactiveposter]

I would have thought they’d get “glowing” reviews.


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[Thian]

I also planned to stop eating fish at all unless they can prove me where it came from....seems that these restaurants got the message...who are they? I'll go there for coming years.

[impulse]

19 minutes ago, Thian said:

I also planned to stop eating fish at all unless they can prove me where it came from....seems that these restaurants got the message...who are they? I'll go there for coming years.

 

That's if you believe them.  Like someone would believe Olympus accounting numbers...

[Darcula]

Well done 11 topsecret unnamed Japanese restaurants. Still not going to order fish at all the other topsecret unnamed Japanese restaurants.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Pretty hilarious.....

 

Thais getting fussy about the prospect of radiation tainted seafood from Japan...

 

When every day, the Thai markets are filled with pesticide and other tainted forms of foods that the locals eat every day without batting an eyelash, because of course, those are tainted THAI foods.

 

[Lupatria]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Bangkok restaurants stop serving fish from Fukushima

Was this after they discovered consumers were glowing like fire flies on their way home?

[Crossy]

Of course, if they had just started serving the fish (which is likely totally completely fairly somewhat safe) without the fanfare nobody would have been any the wiser.

 

Until someone let the cat out of the bag that is.

[johng]

I think the Japanese let the cat out of the bag. There was much "fanfare" on NHK world news about this first shipment since the disaster.

[RichardColeman]

Blinky safe for another few days then   !

[midas]

.......... meanwhile over in the UK they are eating rice  from there probably without even realising the full consequences. I mean as if the problem disappears after just seven years

 

Fukushima rice to be sold in Britain

 

https://www.rt.com/business/347459-fukushima-rice-japan-meltdown/

[johng]

Although its possible that the product is safe,how does one check and why risk it ?
I feel great sympathy for the Japanese in the Fukushima area
affected by both Tsunami and nuclear disaster, but a big no excepting possibly contaminated produce.