While a made-in-Japan label had, in the past, been a declaration of quality among fashionable young consumers, many retailers have been busy removing signs proclaiming items to have been imported from Japan.
The manager of a Japanese restaurant in Beijing's Chaoyang district said he had reassured diners that the restaurant used salmon imported from Norway and did not import food or ingredients from Japan.
And an employee from a Japanese restaurant in Guangzhou's Tianhe district, said the sale of sushi, salmon and other Japanese dishes had not been affected during the past week because all food and ingredients were local.
"We use Japanese cooking skills and hire Japanese chefs but we will use food products from China or those imported from other countries if Japanese food products are found tainted by nuclear radiation," she said.
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