'MA KHIN', NEW REPSOL GUIDE RESTAURANT! • 24/7 Valencia

The establishment led by Steve Anderson adds a new recognition to its trajectory, by being included in the previously called category of recommended restaurants. The guide highlights qualities of Ma Khin such as “authenticity, well-understood crossbreeding, and a gastronomic experience with its own story,” a few months before celebrating 12 years since its opening in Valencia. The restaurant that brings Southeast Asia to the centre of Valencia, Ma Khin, has been included as a Repsol Restaurant, within the new edition of the Guide for 2026. This category is equivalent to the previously called ‘recommended restaurants’, which changes its name starting this year. In this way, the national publication values its commitment to Burmese cuisine, always prepared with local products, and includes it in the list of 1,605 Repsol Restaurants, distributed throughout Spain and Andorra, which in this edition has been increased with 242 new additions.

The complete list of Repsol Suns and Restaurants was announced last night, Monday, February 16, after the gala held at the Tarragona Conference and Exhibition Centre. The guide describes the restaurant located in the Colón Market as follows: “Ma Khin is a contemporary Asian restaurant in Valencia that proposes a journey through Southeast Asia from a personal perspective, with special emphasis on Burmese and Indian cuisine. Its cuisine combines traditional recipes, spices, and oriental techniques with local products, achieving a recognizable and accessible balance.” It also values its character and the work of the dining room staff, highlighting “a clear identity, intense but well-measured flavours, and a coherent proposal, accompanied by a selection of wines from small nearby wineries. A space that is committed to authenticity, well-understood crossbreeding, and a gastronomic experience with its own story,” according to the review.

The driving force behind Ma Khin is Steve Anderson, who values the recognition from the publication as follows: “We are very excited about this recognition granted by a guide as prestigious as Repsol. Especially, thanks to the guide’s inspectors for including us. We must have done something to deserve it.” Likewise, the creator of the firm, which pays tribute to his grandmother and her origins, celebrates the impact of the inclusion: “This positions us in Valencia as one of the reference points for Asian cuisine, and allows us to take a step onto the national stage, reaching the level of places like Madrid or Barcelona. It also encourages us to continue improving and working, so that whoever visits Valencia comes to eat at ‘Ma Khin’ and get to know our Decolonial cuisine.” It should be remembered that the restaurant is located on the ground floor of the Colón Market, one of the most important tourist and architectural points of the city.

Twelve years of success in Valencia

Ma Khin is on its way to celebrating twelve years as a benchmark for Asian cuisine in the city of Valencia. Now, true to its essence, but with its sights set on the future, it intends to offer an experience that reflects with greater intensity the values that have defined it from the beginning – diversity, integration and a cuisine without borders -. Because Ma Khin was never just a restaurant. It is a place where gastronomy weaves an invisible thread in different ways. The new visual identity accompanies this transformation with a more contemporary, versatile, and coherent graphic design with the concept of ‘Decolonial Food’ that defines Ma Khin. A cuisine that starts from Southeast Asia, but that is influenced by the ingredients, stories, and people who inhabit Valencia.

Ma Khin has made curiosity its compass and the meeting between cultures, its own language. A meeting that goes back 150 years, when Ma Khin, Anderson’s great-grandmother, met the young Englishman William Carr in a bustling market in Moulmein, intertwining the origins of Steve’s family. From that crossroads to today, its history has grown through different countries, until it has definitively taken root in Valencia.

Report by ‘24/7 Valencia’ team

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‘Ma Khin’ photos copyright Mike Ponce