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LOS ANGELES (May 11, 2020) – Miss your favorite maki while restaurants are on hiatus? If you live in designated areas of Los Angeles or San Diego counties, you can now get sushi-grade seafood along with all the fixings, special handroll and poke kits, and a wide assortment of fresh vegetables delivered directly to your door from the local warehouse of True World Foods, wholesale seafood and Asian food distributor that supplies 80% of high-end and mid-range sushi restaurants in the U.S. and Canada.

Selections available from True World Foods Los Angeles include:

• Top-grade fish and seafood ranging from frozen yellowtail and bluefin tuna to sockeye salmon filet, unagi (broiled fresh water eel), sushi ebi (shrimp) and more
• Temaki handroll sets complete with fish, avocado, kyuri (Japanese cucumber) and nori
• Poke bowl sets combining fish, fish roe and seaweed salad
• Sushi staples such as nori, wasabi, edamame and seaweed salad along with tofu, udon and large bags of both white and brown rice
• Fresh vegetables from asparagus, carrots, cherry tomatoes and shiitake mushrooms to Asian specialties like burdock root, daikon and myoga (Japanese ginger)

Orders are delivered on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the same True World Foods-owned refrigerated trucks normally used to supply sushi restaurants in southern California, following Centers for Disease Control (CDC) safety guidelines.

• Current delivery destinations include Torrance and Gardena in the South Bay Area as well as San Gabriel, Alhambra and the Monterey Park area in Los Angeles County, plus San Diego, Carlsbad and the Escondido area in San Diego County.
• Consumers living outside the delivery areas can place orders for pickup at the company’s Vernon warehouse.
• All orders require a $50 minimum and must be placed by midnight the day before the desired delivery or pickup.

All products feature the same premium quality and food safety controls as those sold to restaurants. A complete list of products and other details is at https://trueworldfoodsla.com/

“We have been the #1 supplier to North American sushi restaurants for more than 45 years, but we have never sold direct to consumers in the past,” said Robert Bleu, president of True World Group, the parent company of True World Foods. “Sushi chefs are the most demanding customers in all of the food complex.  If it meets their standards, you will be blown away.  Our home delivery service fills a gap for fish and seafood lovers who want the best possible fish during the COVID-19 quarantine, and we expect to continue it after the crisis passes.”

The company rolled out its first direct-to-consumer programs in Atlanta and New York and plans to add service in Chicago, San Francisco and Sacramento shortly. Each geography will be supplied from the local True World Foods warehouse, leveraging the company’s 26 locations throughout the North America.