Recommended Eats: Sakura mixes traditional Japanese dishes with local flavours as its popularity continues to grow after 15 years

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00:00My name is Annie Ong. I'm from Malaysia. I'm a major of Sakura.

00:19How long have you been working here?

00:21About 15 years.

00:2315 years? Wow. Is that since the restaurant started?

00:26Yeah.

00:28We started in 2009, October, 2013.

00:33Ah, okay. I can see it's a long time.

00:35Yeah.

00:36And obviously, it's hugely popular because you've been here for 15 years.

00:39Yeah.

00:40What do you put that popularity down to? Why do you think it's so popular?

00:43I think we are the first Japanese restaurant in Australia.

00:48Ah, really? First one?

00:49Yeah, first one.

00:51And what's promised to be more popular dishes?

00:53Hopefully, it's Sashimi.

01:00We've got fresh fish from the fish market.

01:07Yeah.

01:09We've got fried yakisoba, udon, ramen, gyoza, eclairs.

01:24We've got hot soup as well.

01:27We've got spicy ramen.

01:33Where do you get all the ideas?

01:35Some of them are quite traditional Japanese, but I've never seen anything like this.

01:38I haven't seen anything like this.

01:40How do you come up with those ideas?

01:43Who comes up with the dishes and ideas?

01:45It's from our chef.

01:50And what do they come up with?

01:52Yeah.

01:53They change it from sushi to steak flavour.

02:00Yeah.

02:03And you've got a lot of regular customers that come in?

02:05Yeah.

02:06Yeah.

02:07A lot of them.

02:08They come from Australia nearby.

02:16Really coming from a lot of surrounding areas.

02:47Yeah.

02:57Yeah.

03:06Yeah.

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