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It’s been quite a year for the Feng Sushi team. Our website is has just passed its first birthday and a lot can happen in a year so we thought we’d take this opportunity to look back over our first 12 months in the digital world. January saw the reopening of our Chalk Farm branch in Jaunary 2011. In February we joined Sustainable Fish City to lend our support to making London the first sustainable fish city in the world. With March came the news of the devastating effects of Japan’s tsunami and we fundraised throughout the year to show our support: by sponsoring the Japan Tsunami Fund, donating sushi sales to Japan’s Red Cross and supplying the sushi for the Japanese Auction in August. September saw us release YouTube ‘How to Make Sushi’ videos and the introduction of our seasonal menus. Then there were our greatest success stories: the opening of Billingsgatwhen we blogged on the market’s fascinating history, our presence at Hyper Japan festival where we were finalists in the Sushi awards in July and culminating in our becoming 'Winner of the Sustainable City Award 2011/12' in March 2012. This year we hope to go from strength to strength.

FENG SUSHI FLIES THE FLAG FOR SUSTAINABILITY:WINNER OF THE SUSTAINABLE CITY AWARDS 2011/12

Feng Sushi takes the Sustainable Fish City Pledge

To celebrate the start of a ‘so-far, so-excellent’ sizzling summer, our development team, David Wright and Kazu Kawada, have created six fabulous new dishes for the menu. Each dish is summery light and we’ve made sure that the fish and shellfish used are in season and sustainably sourced – and all from within the UK’s borders.

Grilled eel, better known as unagi in Japanese cuisine, remains a delicate dish. The use of unagi in Japan goes back to the Edo period (1603-1868) when there was an abundant supply of it in Tokyo’s waters. As eel is cooked, unlike much sushi fish which is eaten raw, its preparation has become the domain of special unagi chefs who are revered for their skills.

Feng Sushi has signed up to the Sustainable Fish City pledge, a campaign which aims for London to become the first sustainable fish city, in time for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.