I really do love Sakae Sushi. it's so much nicer to eat here than sushi king or shogun. sushi king is really expensive and ambience is like a fast food place, and shogun's even more expensive with most of its fish not as fresh as you'd like it to be. so I think sakae sushi is my favourite one in terms of everything as it has nice and cozy ambience, nice food, and not so frightfully expensive than you'd have to sell an arm and a leg to eat there.
This teriyaki chicken don was nice. although I wonder how they get enough fibre. seems like all we eat at japanese restaurants are protein and carbs. the only veggies are the pickled ones or deep fried battered ones in the tempura....
this is their fried tofu which i found really yummy.

we also had these deep fried salmon and shrimp dumplings [inside it was flaked cooked salmon encasing a whole shrimp] servied with mayo and a sweetish dark sauce.

this place has the cheapest salmon sashimi. this place of sashimi with 4 slices was RM5.90

I love miso soup as always.

I think chawan mushi must be the japanese comfort food. soft,warm and flavourful, one cannot help but like this!

and my favourite: the spicy salmon sushi. chopped up raw salmon [i love!] mixed with...what might be yoghurt and spices. I dont know what the spices are except that they really are spicy. perhaps cayenne pepper? or chilli powder? I order this every time I go to sakae sushi. at RM1.90 per plate [2 pieces]


So, in line with the whole Japanese thing, i decided to try making konnyaku jelly. I found some old jelly moulds and tried this recipe using the peach flavoured justea drink. it worked very well although I couldn't get most of them out of the molds without breaking them.how does one do it? it couldn't slide out and i had to poke them with my fingers to free them from the mould. but then, when i poked them, they get misshapen.

i also made some using lychee juice, so the brown ones were the peach tea ones and the whitish ones from the lychee syrup. they tasted good although most looked deformed. what a pity as those moulds are so pretty in their flower, heart, star and leaf shapes.

i like sakae sushi at subang parade. the ambience is nice, with nice comfy booths to sit in and an overall dim lighting. i like the cute green smiling froggy on its logo. oh..and the food is pretty good as well.

rachel had this tempura-ed basket with her cold soba and raw egg mixture [forgot what it's called]

yewjin had this mackeral sushi that looks interesting. the fish slices are topped with minced ginger and spring onion.

as usual the tamago sushi is a favourite.

my all time favourite - salmon sushi. sakae sushi has the cheapest salmon sushi around at only RM1.90 per plate [of two pieces] and it tastes much better than the ones at sushi king [more expensive!] which were not very fresh the last time gavin and i ate there. which is kinda weird as sushi king is just a fast food place whereas sakae sushi "feels" like a fine dining place.

I thought it was interesting to see this item on the menu called "spicy salmon sushi" so i ordered it. it turned out to be rather...interesting. on the the usual vinegared rice were chopped up raw salmon mixed with... i dont know. what looked like curry paste and chilli powder? it WAS indeed spicy but still had that distinct salmony flavour. wrapped up in seaweed sheets. unexpected..but tasty.