Checkout The Golden Ocean Seafood Shop And Its Cafe

One of the major local exporters of Tuna has opened an outlet in Suva, complete with its own seafood cafe.
Golden Ocean Fish Ltd Sales and Marketing manager Ana Delailomaloma said the opening of the Golden Ocean Seafood shop is a decent way of marketing Golden Ocean Fish Ltd company locally too.
The outlet and cafe are in the new Flagstaff Plaza.
Golden Ocean Fish Ltd’s headquarters is in 33 Freeston Rd, Walu Bay, Suva.
Golden Ocean Seafood shop
On the cafe, Ms Delailomaloma said: “We see a need for a nice seafood cafe like the ones abroad.
“We have friends, family, clients that have been asking us for years to open up an outlet where they can get their fresh sashimi, because it’s quite hard to get them locally so when the space was available, we thought…ok it’s about time to do something here in Suva.
What can people expect
“A lot of people are now adopting good eating habits, so we believe that opening this shop would do many of us a favour.
“Apart from having fresh sashimi we thought of making available all our export products locally too. All those products in our freezer is what you will find in big supermarket chains in USA, France, Netherlands, Spain, Australia and New Zealand.
“We wanted the café in the shop for our customers to also try out the different variety of fish products that we have available and different ways of preparing and cooking fish and other seafood available to us in Fiji.
“It’s more like educating the public. Saturdays we would combine our fish with other local seafood giving it a local twist like the cawaki nigiri, nama poke, lumi sushi.
“We also like to use local seafood and produce in season to create our menu like our Tuna and mango sushi for example. Now avocado is in season you will see avocado in most of our food,” Ms Delailomaloma said.
SunBiz asked Ms Delailomaloma, what’s so different about their business?
She responded: “One, we don’t sell any fizzy drink at all, only drink available is water, coconut juice and freshly squeezed lemon juice.
“Two, you will also notice we don’t put salt on the table for our customers to use, we give salt on demand. We give our customers the option of salads, rice or potatoes as their sides to promote healthy eating.
Golden Ocean Seafood shop design
“Our managing director, Mr Du himself came up with the design. I remember, going to our shop almost every day with Mr Du, sketching and mapping out how we want the place to look, then we engaged Design Hut which was also our project manager. The interior decoration is done by Neil Foon.
“All the decoration in our outlet has something to do with fishing which represents our main business. Furniture is custom made by a local company Topik Furniture
“The shop alone is a very tiny bit of our business.
“We have been in business for 20 years now and have invested quite a lot into our plant, our fleet, our people and now our outlet.”
Feedback: maraia.vula@fijisun.com.fj