Friday, February 15, 2008
Photo Galore & Food Blog: Ma Maison at The Central
Ma Maison, serves Japanese-style Western food, is done up to look like an English cottage – Behind those menacing entrance is a dining interior exuding a very rustic old school charm, very quaint and homely. The decorations are all wooden, from floor to tables to wall. Windows are fringed with floral curtains. There's even wooden racks on which plates and crockery and bottles are neatly arranged as though it were a real kitchen in someone’s home!
Atmosphere is pretty quiet and peaceful which further enhanced the coziness. It's pretty sceneric too with the views of Clark Quay and Singapore River. With the vintage lamps and the tea like candle lighted up, it feels even more homely, making the place perhaps even more so romantic. Love the ambience - Dark and intimate! =P
People already started queuing way before it's open
Western feel
The green cupboard is for safekeepings of belongings of the staff. Cool!
Jap feel
Assorted Sausages - Interesting and yuuuuumy
Rose Wine
Beef Stroganov Omurice
For the omu rice, in accordance from the friend, was very tasty - The omlette texture was fair and the butter rice was pretty fragrance as well. The disappointment came from the beef stroganov - Pretty hard, probably overcooked but the bite size was alright. As for the sauce, it was too salty to the friend's liking, yet with compliment of the mushroom, the food was satisfactory
Sizzling Hamburger Steak
I specifically came for its famed hamburger steak. When the sizzling pan was served, the waiter demonstrated his competency. Actually there's a video of the whole process but due to the unglamourous, unpleasant censored act of yours truely, the idea of publishing it was brushed off =P The beef patty was nicely grounded and finely grilled; soft. With the brown sauce draped over it, the patty was certainly very enriching though it maybe quite salty at times. Best of all, it topped up with a round sunny sunset (My favourite! Never sick) heh
Brownie
The dessert came with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and conscientiously decorated chocolate sauce. The warm, moist brownie paired with the cold vanilla ice-cream is definitely the perfect complement for each other
After slurping up all the food, what appears to be a large and heavy brass key is placed on every table. The key is labelled with a corresponding table number so that when diners are done, they could bring this key over to the counter to make payment. A decent and cheery end to the homely feeling. heh
Besides the food (interesting and slight above average), the service was commentable. The staffs are very courteous, friendly and polite, very classic Japanese style
Mai Maison is located in Parco Bugis and The Central. Suggest that you guys may want to make a reservation before going down as it's usually quite packed. Sidetrack: My photos are quite bright because I went at around 1800hrs to try my luck as reservations was full for that day. As the sky darkens, the ambience is definitely a score point
- End
Kinda lethagic after the meal so whatever had happened was pretty slow-paced. Nonetheless, it was enjoyable sitting at a side looking at the kite-fliers, awed by their kites' amazement, ablility to fly behind the clouds; with the constant breeze blowing at your face. That kinda life I wanna live - Slack and carefree with nothing to worry. Company was awesome, comfortable =)
p/s: I think the next time I will just post peeeeektures lah. To just type out the descriptions and the taste and the aftermaths of everything is just so painstaking tedious - My vocabulary is limited lah. Therefore, I have concluded, I will do with a photoblog instead =P
Labels: Central, Food - Fusion (Japanese Western)
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