Katsu Midori CentralWorld is where the Tokyo conveyor belt sushi chain opened its first Thai branch in December 2024, on the 3rd floor of the mall. I have eaten at Katsu Midori three times since, twice here and once at the Mega Bangna branch. The photos come from a weekday lunch here with five colleagues on Wednesday 1 July 2026. This post covers how we got a table, how the plates are priced against Sushiro, what I order and the cat-shaped pudding worth saving room for.

Getting A Table At Katsu Midori CentralWorld

I walk from Chit Lom BTS station to CentralWorld, then take the lift or an escalator up to the 3rd floor, where Katsu Midori sits in the Japan Avenue zone at the far end of the building. By the entrance, a takeaway counter sells boxed sushi sets and puddings if you would rather eat elsewhere.

The wooden Katsu Midori Sushi name board above the entrance, with slatted wood panels and the takeaway shop sign underneath.
The entrance sits in the Japan Avenue zone on the 3rd floor of CentralWorld.

The one catch is the queue, which has run up to three hours on my visits. It runs through the QueQ app, which only issues a ticket within about 200 metres of the restaurant, from about 9.50am. On 1 July the six of us started trying for a ticket at 11.30am, competing with office workers from the neighbouring buildings who were doing the same. The count in the app looks worse than it is, because everyone takes a number and then rushes over, so staff keep calling numbers that nobody answers. A group of six takes longer to seat, so we waited about 40 minutes and were at the belt by 12.12pm.

Saturdays and Sundays have been busier still every time I have tried, including one visit when the queue was so long that we gave up.

You can also book ahead. Katsu Midori takes reservations for up to eight people through its LINE account, @katsumidori, which passes them to Hungry Hub. Arrive five to 10 minutes early and show the confirmation itself, because staff do not accept a screenshot.

How The Belt And Plates Work

The room is large, with 248 seats spread along counters that loop past the chefs, glass tanks and framed prints of fish. Every plate on the belt rides under a clear dome beside a card naming the dish and its price, such as fresh fatty salmon at ฿80. Lift the dome off, then drop it into one of the cover bins along the counter.

Domed plates of salmon nigiri moving along the conveyor belt at Katsu Midori, beside a card advertising fresh fatty salmon at 80 baht.
Fresh fatty salmon was ฿80 a plate on 1 July 2026.
A speckled ceramic bin stacked with clear plastic sushi covers on the counter, labelled in Japanese, Thai and English.
Empty domes go back into bins like this one along the counter.

The colour of the plate sets the price. Twelve colours run from ฿40 for a red plate up to ฿180, with 10% service added to the bill. Nothing arrives with wasabi, so take a sachet from the bowls on the counter. Soft drinks with unlimited refills cost ฿40, going by the card under the counter.

A speckled ceramic bowl of green wasabi sachets on the counter beside the belt, labelled wasabi original from Japan.
Wasabi comes in sachets here rather than under the fish.

The tablet at each seat carries the menu, split into tabs such as tuna, seared, gunkan and desserts. When you have finished, press Check and a member of staff comes over to scan the stacks with a handheld reader.

The ordering tablet showing a message in Japanese, English and Thai that a member of staff will come, with menu tabs for tuna, white fish and seared sushi along the top.
After you press Check, the tablet asks you to wait for a member of staff.

When The Bell Rings

The room feels livelier than Sushiro, mostly because of a bell. Every so often it rings and a chef calls out a fish just in from Japan at a special price, while diners who want a piece raise a hand. Katsu Midori calls these specials the golden minute. I have never claimed one, because even at the lower price those fish are a treat for a special occasion rather than a regular lunch.

What I Order

I always start with chutoro and otoro, the medium fatty and fatty cuts of tuna, then move on to simple maki. After that I pick whatever special I have not seen before, so that I can say I have tried it at least once.

Two gunkan rolls with an orange topping on an orange plate moving along the belt, with counter seats numbered C79 to 82 behind.
Gunkan passing the counter seats at 12.19pm.

Save Room For The Neko Pudding

Finish with the Neko Pudding, a cat-shaped pudding that wobbles every time the plate moves. My wife and I love the original, a milk pudding with a berry sauce, which we call the strawberry one. We have not tried the matcha version yet but will next time. Neither of us likes Thai milk tea, so we will skip that flavour, but give it a try if you want a local taste. The original costs ฿80 and the matcha ฿90.

Three cat-shaped puddings in clear takeaway domes, one green, one white and one caramel brown, each with a pot of sauce on top.
The takeaway fridge by the entrance holds all three: matcha, the original and Thai milk tea.

Katsu Midori Or Sushiro

After five years of eating at Sushiro, I find the fish at Katsu Midori a little fresher. It does cost more plate for plate: Katsu Midori runs from ฿40 to ฿180 across 12 colours, while Sushiro PARC Bangna ran from ฿30 to ฿100 across five when I photographed its sign three days later, on 4 July 2026. Both add 10% service. Katsu Midori's own figures put the average spend at CentralWorld at about ฿650 a head in 2024.

Four towers of empty sushi plates in mixed colours on a wooden table, with prawn heads on the top plates, while a member of staff scans them with a handheld reader.
Six of us stacked more than 50 plates before the count for the bill.

Both chains started in Thailand at CentralWorld. Sushiro opened on the 7th floor on 31 March 2021, more than three years before Katsu Midori arrived four floors below.

Three visits in, the tuna and the Neko Pudding keep bringing me back, with the matcha cat next on my list. For more lunches in Bangkok, browse more places to eat, try the food court at Central Chidlom by the same BTS station or head to Mega Bangna for teishoku at Bincho.