Sakura Kaiten Sushi
61 Little Collins St
Melbourne, VIC 3000
03 9663 0898
Carrying on with my thread of using an economy of words, I’ll string this blog post out in a more light-hearted voice. In fact, you can pretty much call it food porn. Vic contacted me out of the blue one day after we’d not spoken for ages, and we caught up here with her partner. It’s one of her favourite sushi train bar in Melbourne. Always enjoy having someone recommend me a place.
Such a cosy, warm, and pretty venue. If you’re seated closer to the back, you can even watch the sushi chefs prepare your plates of food. It isn’t a big place, seats around 20, so book if you’re going at peak hours.
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If you’re not familiar with how sushi trains work, you just grab a plate of whatever you fancy from the moving ‘conveyor belt’ of food. The sushi is placed on different coloured plates to represent the price level of the dish. Pink plates denotes standard sushi priced at $3.60, black = special $4.60, white = premium $5.80, red = deluxe $6.80. At the end of the meal, they’ll calculate the bill by counting your stack of empty plates and its colours.
Like yum cha sessions, I find it quite difficult to remember everything in a sushi-train setting when your party has selected many many little plates of food. But I enjoyed our meal here, the food is pretty fresh and of good quality. While some may argue otherwise, I thought the pricing is pretty alright too, we ate heaps and forked out around $35-40 per person.
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I’ll now group the dishes into three tiers according to how we (or just I) liked them.
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Stage 1
General Consensus:
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Stage 2
unagi sushi / seaweed salad
chawanmushi / salmon sashimi
tuna sashimi / salmon and roe sushi
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Verdict:
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Challenge Stage!!
deep fried butter scallops / chicken kare age
agedashi tofu / scallop sushi
marinated eggplants / black sesame and green tea ice cream
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Finishing Line:
And just look at our beautifully tall stack of empty plates here. We are such big eaters and are not afraid of showing it. :D
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Haha! I love your ratings system. I have to agree though, the last collective of dishes does look the best. Mmmm agedashi tofu and black sesame ice cream…
so looks like some good and bad =). worth trying?
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At least some is amazing! Black sesame icecream FTW!
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One of the better, if not the best sushi train in Melbourne =D.
Ahahaha… such a pretty place! I've never even been :( Fail cbd worker
Oh my god, woooooow! I love Sakura Kaiten Sushi and like yeah, the last time I had that much at a sushi train was when I was stil in high school i think…excellent effort though, doing us proud. :D
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YUM!!! I've been meaning to give this place a try for a while so I'm glad to have come across your review first. I feel less scared and daunted to try a new place now after reading this hahahaha… I'm still won over even though there's some okay but also great dishes. Hey, you can't always win them all right? YUMMO! =D
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NO WAY! I want to go here sooo bad! A proper, good quality sushi train. My dreams come true!
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Ha ha, glad you like it. Overall it's a good place for sushi, I'd come back. :)
It's pretty alright, but to be fair I've not had sushi train in Melbourne before until this visit. It's better than Sakae Sushi in Singapore.
So near you, must go after work! Ask me along too. ;)
Hahaha that's 20+ plates between 3 people (2 boys and a girl). Isn't that a doable quantity?
That's right. But it's actually a pretty good place. You should give it a try. ;)
Ha ha. I assume there aren't too many of these in Melbourne. To be honest, it isn't really my thing, the venue is normally big and you feel a little like cattle eating in a conveyor belt system. But this particular one is cosy, so I quite enjoyed it.
A bit late on this comment but more posts in this style please!!! It is brilliant!! You obviously had fun with it and I had sooo much fun reading it. Thanks!! Loves it!!
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Loove Asian style ice creams indeed! :)
I'm glad you think so. :)
Haha, I'll take note re: posting style. Normally very voluminous w words. :p