Japanese Food

I ate my lunch at a sushi bar -- always a risk in a region of the world known for casual culinary hygiene. I figure this is the last chance I will have of eating proper raw fish before I enter China proper. Not only are the standards of cleanliness more likely to be higher here in Hong Kong, but it is also hard to find a Japanese food restaurant on the mainland -- good or otherwise. After months of searching, I could not find even one in Yangshuo. This is odd because the town is, perhaps more than any other city in China, oriented to catering to the tastes and preferences of foreigners. West Street is lined with restaurants offering dishes from around the world. The town has one of the highest levels of foreigners per capital in the country. Yet there is no sushi. Likely this disparity is a result of the fact that Hong Kong was a part of the free world during the Cold War while the mainland was not.