Daily Archives: 13/07/2010

Ma Maison

Imagine. Having to write about food when you are very hungry at the moment .
Ok that being aside I shall write about one of my so far favourite places that I have been introduced to .
You see, when i first started learning Japanese, as well as starting to like Arashi, this uber funny boy band,

ARASHI

ok but of course this is not a post dedicated to them. I just remember watching a drama called  流星の絆 (Ryusei no Kizuna) starring one of the Arashi members 二宮和也 (ninomiya kazunari) with the main plot that surrounds a family based western restaurant in Japan, on the night that the 3 children sneaks out to watch the meteor rain, they return to find their parents murdered. So the plot evolves from there to find out the murder. Of which, in every episode, they kept talking about and kept making hiyashi rice.

Being the normal noob me, I didn’t know of the existence of such a dish as part of the Japanese western cuisine. Thanks to my friend who is a super fan of 二宮和也, she also was inspired to try the dish, and she successfully found it and brought me there! 🙂

We went to  … Ma Maison!!! this is one of my favourite restaurant in Singapore. It has a very family oriented and themed decoration , well it feels just as how i imagined it to be in the real kind of Japanese -Western restaurant setting,

Consequently, as this is one of my sister’s favourite places to dine as well, before she left overseas to study, my friend and I decided to bring her there to give her our mini version of a ‘sendoff’ ..

 

This is a super big HIT for me .. I super love this place and so far on my trips back, their standard are pretty consistent and no bloopers so far in the dishes that I have been ordering. I super love this and its my favourite food to eat with friends. 🙂

Beef Stranganoff rice ❤

This is my ultimate favourite must order dish when I am there 🙂

Squid Ink Seafood Pasta

 

Mentaiko Pasta

Kani (Crab) cream croquette

 

although for this particular meal, it was so bittersweet .. didn’t expect her to leave so soon 😦 .. boy does time fly.. but on a happier note, we all left with happy tummies .. :/

CHIONOs

Awesome .. a last dinner for my little sister before she goes to perth to further her studies

3 appetizers that came

scallops wrapped in dried noodles - ok

siew mai with beef - prawn tasters said ok

lobster mixed with mayo and topped with fish role on a spring onion based "prata" - prawn tasters said its thumbs up

kailan with mui choy - excellent

lamb withh curr-ish sauce thingy?... mini surprise inside that dim sum steamer ..yup its a ball of glutinous rice 🙂 rice after not having it for 3 months = happiness
taste testers review - must eat it with the rice otherwise it will have that lamby or the curry taste too overpowering

baked mushroom in paper with mushroom soup that is based in soya bean!!!
innovatively awesome dish 🙂

lobster noodles - disappointed ; lobster monsters hated the tomato base

seafood broth pao fan 🙂 best dish of the night .. too busy chomping it down, no time to take picture

lastly to end off, i was really craving my favourite classic dessert of all times to me, which is

molten lava cakee!!!!

Overall I think we enjoyed eating here, although I thought the best dish was the seafood rice, where there was a clever use of rice puffs ( i think is rice that had been baked) and mix it into the normal kind of porridge texture rice. I loved that part of the dinner, as well as .. we also ordered steam fish in lotus leaf, but i forgot to take a picture  of it and feel quite embarassed to show a half eaten fish ;/ *yikes*

Chinois
Resorts World Sentosa
Hotel Michael
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#02-142/143
Singapore 098138 
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