Yet another belief is that at Sakae shopping street at the port of Moji, a port that developed as a gateway to mainland China after the (First) Sino-Japanese War during the Meiji period, a bistro served rushed passengers a ketchup based rice dish, which was nicknamed 'hayai (fast) rice' and came to be called hayashi rice.
明治の日清戦争後に開けた大陸航路の港、門司港の栄町商店街にある大衆レストランが、船に乗る急ぎの客用にケチャップベースの「早いライス」、すなわちハヤシライスとして呼ばれたからという説。