Malaza Restaurants

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To know more of the Malagasy cuisine I use to enjoy in Malaza, check the below website.

Basically, staple food is rice, as all over the island of Madagascar. Meat: add zébu, pork, poultry product. Other protein sources: fish and seafood.. we are on an island, right ?

However, I use to enjoy foreign dishes that we have come to discover following acquaintances with people from around the world. Home, like in many homes in Madagascar, you'd enjoy usual snacks, dishes that Malagasy have adopted. Those are mainly Chinese/ Vietnamese and Indian-Paki dishes because there are important communities of those ethnicities in Madagascar. They were brought there by the French, in XIX cent. And of course, we have got familiar with some French specialities too.

About Malaza: no restaurant there... Still, my last stay in Feb-March 2005 had seen me treated like in a 5-star hotel & restaurant. Mum used to plan, - I suspect - purposedly, weekly menus to have me trying a different Malagasy dish everyday... Sweet ! God knows food uses to make one homesick... she knows that well. Hmm... Now, I've returned home!

Favorite Dish: Favourite Malagasy dishes are:
-ravitoto (ground manioc leaf with pork meat);
-roasted chicken with garlic
-romazava créole: a dish from La Réunion that had been well adapted by Malagsy people. Basically, a stock made of 7 sorts of leaves- spinach-like leaf, watercress, Chinese cabbages, green onions...- and fat zébu meat- rump meat generally. Malagasy romazava is a simple stock made from only leaves & water & salt, usually used for dampening dry meals.

Lately, I discovered a thing for fat zébu meat dishes:
-zébu meat cooked as confit with green onions;
-same cooking with garlic