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Moshi Moshi out, Numa in
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Moshi Moshi out, Numa in
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Hoon Kim and his wife Shelly took over sushi joint Moshi Moshi (108 S. 18th St.) about two months ago, and today they're shutting it down to renovate it into a Japanese restaurant called Numa. It'll still be a sushi-focused operation — Kim says the menu will be split between traditional and contemporary fresh-fish options, plus cooked items from the kitchen — but the look of the place will be changing; the tatami seating on the ground floor will move upstairs in favor of banquettes, to better accommodate the area's large business crowd, says Kim. There will be sushi bars on both floors. They want to be open by this Sunday, Dec. 19.
Interesting bit on the ownership — Kim and his wife live in Philly, but he works as a pastor at the New Covenant Church in Little Neck, New York (just outside the borough of Queens). Though they're running Numa as a business, the plan is to donate a large portion of their earnings to Rehema Ministries, a non-prof that supports orphanages in Kenya, where Kim has spent some time. "We wanted to increase our standard of giving," says the pastor. "We want to be a restaurant with a conscience ... We have top-notch sushi chefs, but for the business model, we want to leverage it for the kids in Africa."
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Sigh, I love this place. Hope it doesn't change for the worse.
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