A mouthful of flavors at Ma Maison

MANILA, Philippines - A Japanese restaurant with a French name serving dishes with Western influences. Seems like a mouthful to say? Wait until you try out its selections and you’ll truly have a mouthful - of flavors, that is.

Ma Maison (which means My Home in French) calls its cuisine Japanese-Western. We call it the perfect pairing of Japanese cooking and Western influences.

Its first restaurant was opened in 1976 in Tokyo. Five years after, it moved to Nagoya and opened twelve more branches across Japan soon after. It eventually opened restaurants in Singapore and, most recently, here in the Philippines at Greenbelt 2 in Makati City.

Ma Maison’s menu selection includes tonkatsu, burgers, escargots and pastas, and some of its dishes are flavoured with ingredients intrinsic to Japanese cooking like tofu, soybeans, soba and rice. The restaurant recently rolled out a new menu that carries new katsu, teriyaki and sizzling sets and other dishes. Its teriyaki sets now include Chicken Teriyaki, Salmon & Tempura Teriyaki and Beef Skewers Teriyaki.  Its sizzling sets, meanwhile, include the Sizzling Beef (stir-fried beef in yakiniku sauce and served with egg, Japanese rice and mixed vegetables), Sizzling Chicken Rice (Teriyaki Chicken legs topped with egg, kizami nori and wasabi mayonnaise) and Sizzling Seafood (crab meat, scallops and shrimps in garlic butter served with special umadashi sauce, kizami nori and egg on top of Japanese rice).

Ma Maison's Sizzling Beef Rice

Ma Maison at Greenbelt 2

Joining its popular Pork Tonkatsu are new breaded and fried items like the Chicken Katsu, Prawn & Chicken Katsu, and Mixed Seafood Katsu (which includes dory, calamares and prawns). Then there are the Tonkatsu Curry and Chicken Katsu Curry. The restaurant’s popular tonkatsu now also comes in two servings—100 grams and 160 grams. Ma Maison’s tofy, salmon, pork, chicken, prawn and kani creame croquette are also highly recommended.