A Paris of Asia Production
Manila · the Paris of Asia, restored
Two people. Two rooms. One messenger — and every hard truth on the table before the first meeting.
A show about real partnership across cultures: interviews, honest counsel, families at the table, and mid-century Manila dressed by Filipino designers.
Our charter
Paris of Asia is an international network with a structure of bienfaisance — good works — and values at its heart. We film the hardest conversations about love, money, family and worth, and we ask them to carry people forward: toward honesty, toward respect, toward repair. We seat everyone at the table for what they've lived, never rank anyone by their past, and give the microphone to the people who actually know the answers. What we build — the shows, the reunions, the academy, the shelter — exists to lift people up. Nothing here is meant to send anyone back.
Manila, São Paulo, Miami — wherever people are looking for each other, we come. There is no limit to love.
Casting — now open
Applications are read by our producers. Being cast costs nothing — cast members are paid a standard appearance fee. Applicants must be 21 or older.
You're a foreigner in Asia. You've done the bars. You want to be anchored — a real partner, a real family, a real life here.
Every man on this show is background-checked, and we will tell you to your face what's going to be hard.
If you're shopping, don't apply.
Apply — MenSingle, single mom, widowed, divorced — if you want a real partner, apply.
You hear everything about him before you decide anything, and your family can be at the table if you want them there.
You choose the pace. You can walk away at any step, on or off camera.
Apply — WomenFilipino men and foreign women: the show runs in both directions. Same doors, same rules. Manila is the home team — Filipino men appear here as candidates, hosts, and voices, never as the punchline. Respect is the admission price; we ask it of everyone because we expect it for ourselves.
How it works
Open casting, both directions. Producers screen every applicant; every foreign man is background-checked.
Each of you, alone with the host: what you want, what you've survived, what you can offer. Said out loud, on the record.
You haven't met. The host carries her questions to his room and his answers back. Both sides heard, before either is seen.
Counselors, an immigration lawyer, a financial planner — and clergy when faith matters to you — walk you both through exactly what will be challenging. Before, not after.
A dinner in mid-century Manila style, dressed by Filipino designers. For her — family at the table, if she wants them.
Months later, whatever the truth is. Choosing not to continue, with all the facts, is a good ending on this show.
No one pays to be matched. Ever. There are no client fees, no success fees, no paid introductions — here or off camera. Money on this production flows one way: from our sponsors to the show, and from the show to its cast.
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This is a television production, not a matchmaking, marriage-brokering, or introduction service. No outcome is promised — not a relationship, not a marriage, and never a visa. Wardrobe is provided by the production and its partner designers, for every cast member alike.
The open table
Once a month, one community cooks and Manila eats. French night, Cuban night, Korean night — and the reverse: Bicol night for the foreigners. Strangers, one long table, no agenda but the food.
You're an expat community in Manila with a cuisine to show off? Write to us — we organize the venue, the cameras, and the guest list; your community brings the kitchen.
Host a nightGuest seatsOpen sign-up, drawn by lot
Families welcome. Filmed areas are clearly marked — sit where you like, on camera or off.
Take a seatThe calendar
Tell us which nights you want to be in the room for. Interest is one click — producers confirm every seat, and confirmed guests get the details privately.
One community cooks, Manila eats. Open table, drawn by lot, families welcome.
Metro Manila · date announced to the list first
I want to be thereSix guests, one chef, the questions people only answer at dinner. Panel guests are cast and paid.
The set, Makati · monthly
I want a seatOn-camera interviews for the matchmaking show — both directions, all walks of life.
Makati · rolling
Book an interviewYour family hosts, teaches, and sets the standard for how a man should arrive.
Your hometown · we bring the food
Nominate your familySee every question we ask and every panel who answers → The Questions.
Member sign-in — with your history, your invitations, and first pick of seats — arrives once this table has regulars. For now: one click, one form, a producer replies.
Also from this table
Night interviews in Poblacion — why men really leave home, what they find, and what it costs.
Parents teach a foreigner — and every foreigner watching — how to approach a Filipino family with respect.
The mirror image: the nurses and workers leaving for Canada and the U.S., and what it takes.