Maki Yaki Menu

  • LionCash
  • Special
  • Beverages & Snacks
  • Hot Noodle Soup
  • Sides and Appetizers Late Night
  • Sides and Appetizers
  • New Items
  • Sushi Rolls (Maki)
  • Sushi 1/2 Roll
  • Maki Yaki Sushi
  • Tonkatsu
  • Teriyaki Bowl with Rice
  • Teriyaki Bowl with Rice Meal
  • Korean
  • Chicken Katsu
  • Teriyaki Bowl with Noodle
  • Teriyaki Bowl with Noodle Meal
  • Sauce and Dressing
  • Bento Box
  • Teriyaki Late Night
  • Korean Menu Late Night
  • Sushi Late Night
  • 1/2 Sushi Rolls Late Night
  • Bento Box Late Night
  • Lunch Special

Healthy Meal suggestions for Maki Yaki

  • LionCash
  • Special
  • Beverages & Snacks
  • Hot Noodle Soup
  • Sides and Appetizers Late Night
  • Sides and Appetizers
  • New Items
  • Sushi Rolls (Maki)
  • Sushi 1/2 Roll
  • Maki Yaki Sushi
  • Tonkatsu
  • Teriyaki Bowl with Rice
  • Teriyaki Bowl with Rice Meal
  • Korean
  • Chicken Katsu
  • Teriyaki Bowl with Noodle
  • Teriyaki Bowl with Noodle Meal
  • Sauce and Dressing
  • Bento Box
  • Teriyaki Late Night
  • Korean Menu Late Night
  • Sushi Late Night
  • 1/2 Sushi Rolls Late Night
  • Bento Box Late Night
  • Lunch Special

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  • John S.

    The best mix of various Asian food in State College, in one friendly family-run shop. 1.) Food is excellent! I usually get a Bento box, but I love their sweet potato fries and pork dumplings. My wife always gets their Shrimp Teriyaki. We've dined in and have taken out numerous times, but I've never done delivery. They include a good brand of Japanese soy sauce packets for take-out, but I've only ever needed it for the sweet potato fries, as their sauces are flavorful. 2.) Staff is very friendly and easy going. A husband and wife team bought this place from the previous owners, so the food and service is even better. They'll make substitutions if you ask. And they're happy to chat with you about the food, the business, or just about anything else. 3.) Location is great, with parking right in front of the door. They have both booths and tables for dining in. You'll have no trouble getting in and out quickly, especially when the students are gone in the summer and on holidays. Right next door is Insomnia Cookies, DP Dough, and Starbucks. I think I'm getting addicted to this place. Bento boxes are a little expensive, but it's a lot of food, and still a bargain if you're getting sushi with it. And now my wife is completely addicted to their house dressing (it's pineapple based). Kudos for keeping this place afloat in our seasonal college town.

    (5)
  • Jack B.

    This place is great! I came here with some friends the other day to get sushi, and it was fresh and delicious. Super nice staff and the chef even came out to ask us how our food was. If you're ever in state college looking for Japanese food, this is where to go.

    (5)
  • Khaled A.

    I love their Tempura shrimp roll Price is reasonable Definitely I'm eating here again

    (5)
  • Joy L.

    New ownership is the bomb.com ! :) Everything from the food to the staff to the interior is so pleasant. Finally satisfying my tonkatsu craving!! Ordered for take out when I got there and the food came out in a matter of minutes. Definitely coming here again soon!

    (5)
  • Mary Y.

    I don't know why I love Maki-Yaki so much but I really do love their Spicy Chicken Bento Box. For $11.99 you get chicken, rice, french fries, two pieces of mandoo, small side salad & 4 california rolls. it's a FULL meal. I would not order any of their sushi however. My girlfriend from NYC had a bad experience with them. (She complained saying it wasn't fresh) The best thing here is the Chicken Teriyaki or their Soba.

    (4)
  • Bryan A.

    The chicken Teriyaki here is delicious! Although the restaurant has it's days, some days chicken is over cooked, it always hits the spot when you're low on money and you want a quick meal. The sushi can be better but it's still pretty yummy.

    (4)
  • Chrissy C.

    Definitely doesn't compare to Wegman's, but it will do for downtown State College. Definitely more Korean than Japanese (they don't have sashimi or edamame, for instance). However, they do have your standard sushi rolls (shrimp tempura, spicy tuna, California, cucumber and avocado) and they will do brown rice. Also terikyaki (as the name suggests) and Udon and Soba noodles. They also do bento boxes with shumai, a california roll, your choice of entree, french fries, noodles and salad. They also have Korean standbys like Bulgogi and Kimchi. The miso soup, however, is REALLY good. It's nice and salty and has just enough seaweed and tofu. The mandoo and sweet potato french fries always hit the spot too. It is a bit pricey for State College, but they do have a bit of the upper hand being that they are right between Sowers and Garner, near Uncle Chen's and DP Dough. Definitely worth a try, though not quite worth the repeat order.

    (3)
  • Laine E.

    Not even close to the best sushi in the State College. The sushi was bland and stale. Terrible service; the guy on the phone was leagues less than pleasant. AND, the icing on the cake? I was overcharged. I would not waste my time or money with these people again!

    (1)
  • Chris G.

    It's good enough. If you've ever had whole foods sushi in a major city this is like 90% of the way there to that quality.

    (3)
  • Carl V.

    I should know better than ordering sushi for delivery. It's never good, raw fish really isn't meant to be sitting at room temperature for an hour. Maki Yaki has found away around that however. They just don't put fish any in your rolls. Brilliant when you think about it. We ordered from them once, never again. It took forever, and then when it did arrive we were so pissed about what we got I really did want a refund. You could barely see the fish and couldn't taste it all. It was like a bland ball of rice. Any other place in town will give you about 4 or 5 times the fish in each roll for the same price. Spend your money there instead.

    (1)
  • Rachel G.

    When I first moved to State College from Boston, my most frequent gripe was (and still is) the area's dearth of authentic non-chain ethnic cheap eats. Where's my Anna's Taqueria? My Xinh Xinh? My Snappy Sushi? While some wonderful places slowly filled the void, I still feel palpably the lack of a decent sushi place. When word spread around the English department last fall that a new place, Maki Yaki, had opened downtown, four of us made a trip to check it out for dinner. Our food took a very long time to prepare despite what looked like an empty restaurant, punctuated by bored undergrad girls in Hard Tail spandex coming in for takeout. I ordered spicy tuna maki, which came out smothered in "mayo" and weirdly chewy. My friends seemed pleased with their meal boxes, but as none of us have returned, the place definitely didn't stick as a go-to for us, as places like India Pavilion and Cozy Thai have. I've had better, more authentic sushi and service at the Wegman's on N. Atherton. If you make sushi and want to open a restaurant in State College, call me once you open PLEASE!

    (2)
  • Hartej S.

    This is definitely the best place in State College to get great sushi plus a great chicken combo. I always get the Chicken Bowl, or the Chicken Soba Bowl. The only thing stopping me from more frequent visits to Maki Yaki is the price. It's a bit expensive for a few small pieces of sushi, rice, lettuce, dumplings, rice and chicken. BUT it is definitely worth the money whenever I do decide to have some sushi/chicken bowl. You can play Wii while waiting for your food, and the leather chairs are really nice and comfortable. Great place to sit down relax and eat. Wish they included a drink in the combo bowls though....

    (3)
  • Peter R.

    Well, really should be 2.5 stars, but can't do that. Having lived in middle-of-nowhere, PA for 12 years now, I'm giving this place the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, can't apply urban standards to State College. However, SC really doesn't have the food culture of many other similarly-sized university towns. Ditto to the other more critical reviews for the mediocre service and the grocery-store quality of the sushi. The hot food is a little better, although is really Korean, despite the Japanese-sounding names (teriyaki, etc...). The "bento" come with a main dish like teriyaki (which is really a stir-fry) on rice or on noodles, accompanied by salad, 4 small pieces of CA roll, fried gyoza and ?french fries? The noodle dishes aren't worth getting, served in a plastic take-out container and not especially good. The food is much more expensive than what it should cost, given the quality and setting. Bento cost about $12, but as fast food, are really worth maybe $8. For what it costs to feed 2-4 people, you could do much better at the full-service Korean restaurants on Locust or N. Atherton.

    (3)
  • Arthur S.

    Summary: An undergraduate-oriented sushi/korean fast food option. Reasonably cheap and filling, but loses even to Wegmans sushi. My wife and I like to try new places, and when we discovered there was a new sushi place in State College, we were excited. As usual for a downtown restaurant, the new place was hard to get info on, but being in the same plaza as DP Dough, Uncle Chens, and the Fresh Harvest Kafe was a good sign, right? Actually no, not really. We walked in and noticed the decor was very nice. The place looked freshly painted, and decorative grills graced the walls. A pair of flat panel TVs flanked the dining area, and there was a Wii with a small TV on the front countertop. Fresh, new designer lighting lit up the place, and the tables looked like they might be from IKEA. Music pumped somewhat loudly from speakers around the counter area. It rapidly became apparent that the restaurant was an order at the front counter style...but there was no large menu to read from. We advanced up the counter and grabbed a takeout menu (entrees range from $5.99 to $10.50). The girl behind the counter seemed shocked that we were ordering from her rather than pawing through the cold case of pre-done sushi next to the register. We ordered sweet potato fries and four different types of sushi: Kimbab Roll (a sort of odd Korean hybrid with spam), California Roll Deluxe, Eel Roll, and Sweet Potato Roll. The girl had us grab the a pre-done Eel Roll package from the cooler next to the cash register, which was a little off-putting, as we'd come in for fresh sushi. Not wanting to overfill on beverages or pay for bottle water, we asked for tap water and were told they would provide it to us in cups. Our total was well over $30 (though, as we would see, this was much more food than we needed), so I pulled out a credit card. The girl behind the counter ran it, twice -- both times the machine refused it, reporting "Invalid Merchant #" (the card worked an hour later, confirming my suspicions it was their issue). She looked at me like it was a bad card; I paid cash out of my wallet. After paying, we sat down with the eel roll package. There were six roll pieces along with two non-roll eel pieces, a Kikkoman soy sauce packet, a dollop of wasabi, pickled ginger, and a small container that turned out to contain more of the sauce that was on the eel but was too small to dip into. The entree seemed large, but we started eating. The rice seemed extra-sticky even for sushi rice. After we finished the Eel, a barked "Here" from the front counter let us know our food was ready. We had ordered to eat there, but the food was served in takeout containers, simply without lids for the sushi containers. The fries were a reasonably sized helping of sweet potato fries without much salt. The additional rolls turned out to be large as well -- eight to nine pieces each. The California roll deluxe was reasonable, though the masago did not add much salt. The Kimbab was disturbingly warm for what it contained -- perhaps the egg had been freshly cooked -- and included some bad-tasting Oshinko pickle. Like the eel sushi, the kimbab were too large to dip into the sauce container. The sweet potato roll turned out to get its sweet potato contents from having rolled up sweet potato fries. It was served with a spicy-sweet sauce for dipping. Oh, and the water? Forgotten -- but then, the counter girl had made tracks as soon as she was done taking down our order. I found myself wondering a bit -- as we sat, eating, twice we observed other groups come in, sit down for a time, then leave, without apparently picking up an order. Perhaps they were catching a snippet of the game on ESPN, perhaps they were waiting for table space at Starbuck's across the way -- we may never know. Vegetarian note: There are a few vegetarian sushi options, and I did see a mixed vegetarian sushi pack premade -- on the other hand, vegetarian sushi is pretty cheap most other places, too, and possible to make at home. Overall, the one high point was the amount. This was plenty of food! However, none of it was particularly tasty. Between that and the fast-food level of service, I can't say I recommend this place.

    (2)

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Opening Hours

  • Mon :11:30 am - 10

Specialities

  • Takes Reservations : No
    Delivery : Yes
    Take-out : Yes
    Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
    Good For : Lunch
    Parking : Private Lot
    Bike Parking : Yes
    Wheelchair Accessible : No
    Good for Kids : Yes
    Good for Groups : Yes
    Attire : Casual
    Ambience : Casual
    Noise Level : Quiet
    Alcohol : No
    Outdoor Seating : No
    Wi-Fi : Free
    Has TV : Yes
    Waiter Service : No
    Caters : No

Maki Yaki

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