The Black-Hole Tummy: Sakae Sushi (QB & Gurney)

Aisling has a thing for good sushi, and so we're featuring her favourite sushi restaurant in our first post ever!

Sakae is a restaurant chain serving Japanese cuisine as Singaporeans probably know, since it's based in and currently has about 30 outlets in Singapore. Although kaiten-zushi restaurants are usually considered as having lower price and quality compared to traditional sushi restaurants, we think Sakae has achieved considerable success in both price and quality.

Being a great fan of salmon dishes, Aisling has picked Sakae as her favourite destination for the best salmon sashimi, salmon maki, salmon salad and salmon heck-knows-what-else in Penang. And I agree completely with her. Having sampled salmon sashimi from quite a number of Japanese restaurants around Penang, Sakae serves by far the freshest and sweetest raw salmon of them all.

Fresh salmon aside, I love soba (buckwheat noodles), especially when served cold. I wouldn't say the soba sets at Sakae is top-notch, but the quality is, in my opinion, definitely one of the best, closely rivalled by Tsuruya, another Japanese restaurant chain.

All-in-all, there're simply too many menu options for use to write it all here and we recommend anyone and everyone to give the restaurant a try, we promise you won't be disappointed.

And we've taken the liberty of taking note of the prices of some of the items.