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A Not-so Paradise Affair (Part 2)
2013-01-28 17 views
A follow up from my previous review, the husband and I continued on our Paradise adventure, this time round, venturing into the den of Paradise Dynasty 2 (Lot 1 branch).As per the other branches, service was excellent. The servers were prompt in ushering us to our seats, taking orders, refilling our tea etc…However, as with our dining experience at Canton Paradise, we could not say so for the culinary quality at Paradise Dynasty, albeit it being a notch better than the former. Yangchow Lion Hea
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A follow up from my previous review, the husband and I continued on our Paradise adventure, this time round, venturing into the den of Paradise Dynasty 2 (Lot 1 branch).

As per the other branches, service was excellent. The servers were prompt in ushering us to our seats, taking orders, refilling our tea etc…However, as with our dining experience at Canton Paradise, we could not say so for the culinary quality at Paradise Dynasty, albeit it being a notch better than the former.

Yangchow Lion Head with Vegetables Soup
This was by far the best dish served. The soup was clear, lightly seasoned and exuded a light hint of meaty fragrance and essence. The meat ball was soft, flavourful and literally melts in your mouth. One of the must orders!
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 Scrambled Egg White with Fish and Dried Scallop
This tops the must-have list of the husband; however, it fell short of his expectations to the extent of making him rethink if he would ever order this dish again on subsequent visits. Compared to the ones served at Crystal Jade, this one clearly lacked the flavours and sweetness embedded in the ingredients. It was blend, watery and kind of “rubbery”; nothing like the silky, rich and flavourful ones we were expecting.
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Chilled Salted Duck Slices
Like wine and cheese, the duck slices were well complemented by the accompanying plum/vinegar sauce. However, when taken alone, the duck slices were dry and tough.
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La Mien with Stewed Beef Brisket
Highly sinful bowl of lard-filled soup with la mien. The soup broth was thick and rich, thanks to the generous amount of lard added in the soup (we suspect). However, this also makes one feel very “gelat” after a couple of mouthfuls, definitely not for those watching their waist-line.

The beef was tender and had the right mix of fats and meat, making it a delight to slowly savour the full flavours. The la mien lived up to its name - silky, smooth and Q.
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 Vegetable Bun
Simple vegetable buns filled with finely chopped greens. Tasted decent, but nothing much to shout about.
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 Original Flavour Xiao Long Bao
The standard of the XLB has evidently dipped. Though it was still juicy, the meat filling somehow lacked the porky goodness that used to sweep us off our feet. Perhaps they had concentrated too much on mastering the other signature flavours (i.e., cheese, foie gras, crab roe etc.)?
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 Overall, this dining experience was a mixture of hits and misses, and definitely can’t hold a candle to the flagship outlet at Orchard Ion.
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2013-01-27
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Back here again!
2013-01-25 12 views
2nd trip here! This time, for a simple meal. Food ordered: Japanese Cucumber in Garlic - $4.80Started with this appetizer. The japanese cucumber was crunchy and the garlic and salt with the cucumber was a very good complement. I like this dish as it was refreshing and it's quite appetizing. They were very generous in the amount of garlic they added, thus making the dish very delicious. Price was a little steep for this simple dish though. Steamed Sliced Fish with Black Fungus - $14.80Simple and
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2nd trip here!
This time, for a simple meal.

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 Japanese Cucumber in Garlic - $4.80

Started with this appetizer. The japanese cucumber was crunchy and the garlic and salt with the cucumber was a very good complement. I like this dish as it was refreshing and it's quite appetizing. They were very generous in the amount of garlic they added, thus making the dish very delicious. Price was a little steep for this simple dish though.
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 Steamed Sliced Fish with Black Fungus - $14.80

Simple and healthy dish. The fish, like previous time, was very smooth and soft. They was a coating of starch(?) making it very different from other fish. The black fungus was not too bad, crunchy, although they gave very little of it. Small ginger slices were added to the cooking, which gets rid of the fishy smell.
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 Sautéed Spinach with Minced Garlic - $10.80

I love spinach! So i can't find any fault with this dish. I think that out of the few vegetable dishes they have, this one looks like they gave the most as it comes in a bunch instead of a few strands. As usual, the garlic added to the dish makes it very aromatic.

I like this place for it's ambience. This time round, the restaurant was not as crowded so it was more quiet as compared to the last time.
However, i didn't like that they quite asking if we wanted to order drinks. (plain water and tea was $1 each, so expensive!)

Overall, this is a good dining place for a quick lunch as the food is served pretty fast and the abundance of staff makes the service really fast too.
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2013-01-19 13 views
Dinner at Paradise Dynasty with mum and dad. They each ordered a main course while i ordered something special instead. I ordered a portion of the hot and sour soup and three pieces of fried dumplings with white rice as my main course. The dumplings do not look fried when you look at it like that, but when you use your chopsticks to clip it up, the bottom of the dumpling is a little pan fried looking. my mum says it is healthier this way, at least it is not whole thing fried. the dumpling inside
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 Dinner at Paradise Dynasty with mum and dad. They each ordered a main course while i ordered something special instead. I ordered a portion of the hot and sour soup and three pieces of fried dumplings with white rice as my main course. The dumplings do not look fried when you look at it like that, but when you use your chopsticks to clip it up, the bottom of the dumpling is a little pan fried looking. my mum says it is healthier this way, at least it is not whole thing fried. the dumpling inside is very juicy, when you bite into it, the soup oozes out. love the chewiness of the skin. yum!
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2013-01-09 13 views
I went for lunch at around 2+, after the lunch crowd? Because i know the queue takes forever during the peak hour. Evident from the throngs of people gathering around outside the restaurant during peak mealtimes. The waiters and waitresses are crazily friendly! Once you enter the restaurant, they greet you with an arousing "huan ying guang ling" (welcome to patron, lol direct translation). It gets annoying after all as they do it for every single customer. Especially for me as they sat me next
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I went for lunch at around 2+, after the lunch crowd? Because i know the queue takes forever during the peak hour. Evident from the throngs of people gathering around outside the restaurant during peak mealtimes.

The waiters and waitresses are crazily friendly!
Once you enter the restaurant, they greet you with an arousing "huan ying guang ling" (welcome to patron, lol direct translation). It gets annoying after all as they do it for every single customer.
Especially for me as they sat me next to the kitchen and everyone passes through there. But the service was prompt as there were so many of them! However, they seem to have little knowledge of the specific dishes, so it's better to ask those with more senior position.

The environment was very lively due to the random welcoming by the waiters, decor was bare-minimal as the restaurant was catering to more patrons at once. Thus, the lack of many ornaments around. It was an open kitchen concept so patrons can see the chefs pulling the la mian and wrapping the xiao long baos.

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 1. Radish Pastry - $3.90

I tried this dish before and i absolutely loved it. The radish was sweet and crunchy and the outer fried layer was crispy! NICE NICE NICE!
Sadly, there was something wrong with the whole batch of radish pastry that day. The radish was sour and we complained to the manager who quickly apologize and went to the kitchen to taste the dish. Indeed, the chef felt it was sour too and changed the whole batch! The manager couldn't compensate a new radish pastry so he just kept apologizing. STILL! I'll recommend this dish!
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 2. Steamed Vege Dumpling - $3.60

OK dish, nothing too special about this. Filled with chives and spring onion? not sure of the particular vege. This dish is meat free as well, so it's not too filling. The skin was just nice, not too hard/soft. Try it with the ginger, quite a nice mix.
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 3. La Mian Steamed with D/boiled Chicken Soup - $10.80

Noodles with separate soup. The double boiled chicken soup was simple and nice. Nothing fanciful about it but the soup was delicious! It has only about 2-3 pieces of chicken inside but the main attraction is the la mian. Very springy! and it doesn't let the eater feel tired of eating it.
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 4. La Mian with Dried Shrimp & Scallion (Dry) - $6.80

We ordered this to share as we wanted a plain noodle to go with the other dishes. The dried shrimp and scallion smelt soooo nice! MAybe i was a little hungry but i thought that this was indeed simplicity at its best! They gave a small bowl of soup too, i think just in case it gets too dry after being exposed when patrons chat and eat at the same time.
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 5. Sautéed Kai Lan with Ginger Sauce - $12.00

Very overpriced!! ): 9-10 stalks of kailan and it cost $12! I recommend the other vegetables, although they only have 4 (sautéed spinach w minced garlic, sautéed australian lettuce and the other 2 we ordered) to choose from. This one will be one of the more expensive one. Luckily, it was sweet and fresh enough.The kai lan was all very young, more juicy too!
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 6. Sautéed Cabbage - $12.00

More worthy of the price since there were relative more stalks. Eating veggies at restaurants always cost a bomb seeing as how cheap veggies are. The cabbage was on the softer side and not as crunchy, might have boiled for a little too long, but it was still juicy.
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 8. Poached Slice Fish in Szechuan Style - $18.80

This was definitely a szechuan dish. The number of chillies in the dish was uncountable. Practically a chilli soup!! Definitely not for the faint-hearted. The fish was very smooth and soft, felt like jelly! There was this indescribable layer of coating around it? Gave the fish an extra taste. Wonderful! The chilli added an extra oomph! to the dish! Look at the amount of chilli we fished out from the bowl
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, it could be a dish on it's own!

I will definitely patronize paradise dynasty 2 again for the great food and service!
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2012-12-23
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  • radish pastry
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2012-12-28 9 views
Headed to Paradise Dynasty 2 at Lot One for dinner with my girlfriend. We ordered their Hot and Sour Soup ($5.80) and Xiao Long Bao ten pieces ($19.60). I must say that Paradise Dynasty Xiao Long Bao is really good, despite ordering 10 pieces, it does not seem to feel enough. The soup in the Xiao Long Bao is so tasty and very thick in flavour, it is not too salty. The hot and sour soup is good, they flavoured it just right. It goes well with white rice, you can actually have that as your main co
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 Headed to Paradise Dynasty 2 at Lot One for dinner with my girlfriend. We ordered their Hot and Sour Soup ($5.80) and Xiao Long Bao ten pieces ($19.60). I must say that Paradise Dynasty Xiao Long Bao is really good, despite ordering 10 pieces, it does not seem to feel enough. The soup in the Xiao Long Bao is so tasty and very thick in flavour, it is not too salty. The hot and sour soup is good, they flavoured it just right. It goes well with white rice, you can actually have that as your main course.
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delicious meal
2012-12-16 6 views
I went to Paradise Dynasty 2 for a nice meal to treat myself to something good. I ordered their Minced Meat Noodles ($7.80) and Sze Chuan Chicken ($10.80). I must say the Minced Meat Noodles is really good, the noodles is very springy and the gravy is very thick and tasty. the Sze Chuan Chicken is quite unique, it is deep fried with dried chilli. The meat is very juicy and succulent. It somehow has this draw making you want to eat mouth after mouth. Really enjoy this meal.
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 I went to Paradise Dynasty 2 for a nice meal to treat myself to something good. I ordered their Minced Meat Noodles ($7.80) and Sze Chuan Chicken ($10.80). I must say the Minced Meat Noodles is really good, the noodles is very springy and the gravy is very thick and tasty. the Sze Chuan Chicken is quite unique, it is deep fried with dried chilli. The meat is very juicy and succulent. It somehow has this draw making you want to eat mouth after mouth. Really enjoy this meal.
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paradise dynasty at lot one
2012-11-10 5 views
I was not really hungry so when my friend suggest we try out the newly opened paradise dynasty at lot one, I was not very excited. The wait for the dinner queue was pretty long, we waited about 20 minutes. By then I got a little hungry. We ordered an Egg Fried Rice ($6.80) to share, on top of that we ordered their Chilli Pork Dumpling ($5.80), Hot and Sour Soup ($5.80). The chilli pork dumpling was really good, it was soaking in chilli oil and vinegar. The hot and sour soup portion was a little
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 I was not really hungry so when my friend suggest we try out the newly opened paradise dynasty at lot one, I was not very excited. The wait for the dinner queue was pretty long, we waited about 20 minutes. By then I got a little hungry. We ordered an Egg Fried Rice ($6.80) to share, on top of that we ordered their Chilli Pork Dumpling ($5.80), Hot and Sour Soup ($5.80). The chilli pork dumpling was really good, it was soaking in chilli oil and vinegar. The hot and sour soup portion was a little small but it went really well with the egg fried rice. The soup was not too spicy, very tasty too. The egg fried rice was really fragrant. for small eaters, a plate is good to share. It was pretty filling for the two of us.
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Paradise Dynasty at Lot One
2012-11-07 8 views
Time of visit : 7pmWhat we had :Black Fungus noodle,Slice Pork minced garlic,Shanghai Pork Bun,Hot & Sour Soup La Mian,Pork La Mian & Xiao Long BaoAverage cost/pax : $89.10 for 4Ambience : Comfortable seats, soft lighting, don't really have the "dynasty" feel. Service : Staff was friendly but service was abit slow. Portion : Each La Mian is enough to fill one, wouldn't suggest sharing; can really taste the "wok hei" from fried noodle which is a good thing. Location : Very convenient as is right
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Time of visit : 7pm
What we had :Black Fungus noodle,Slice Pork minced garlic,Shanghai Pork Bun,Hot & Sour Soup La Mian,Pork La Mian & Xiao Long Bao
Average cost/pax : $89.10 for 4
Ambience : Comfortable seats, soft lighting, don't really have the "dynasty" feel.
Service : Staff was friendly but service was abit slow.
Portion : Each La Mian is enough to fill one, wouldn't suggest sharing; can really taste the "wok hei" from fried noodle which is a good thing.
Location : Very convenient as is right beside at Choa Chu Kang MRT station.
What's good in particular : Xiao Long Bao must try esp. foie gras & original *juicy*
What's bad in particular : Stained tea cups ... ewww
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