Canton Paradise never fails for their affordable Chinese dishes, and of course the efficient service. I was told that I had to queue 45mins for a table of 4, so after getting my queue number, I waited outside and was looking through the menu and ticking what I want from the order form. To my surprise, just after 15mins, I got a table!!

Ordered around 7 to 8 dishes but we were too hungry so here's some snapshots of what we ate and what I think is nice! The Xiao long bao ($4.80 per basket, 4 XLBs) were quite good, it came steaming hot! Make sure to eat it almost immediately for a nicer taste! Personally, I also like the Fried Beans with minced pork and olive ($11.80), the beans were crunchy and nicely fried with the pork. Looking for something spicy on the menu? Try wanton with chilli oil ($5.80)! It's actually a little spicy for a person like me who doesn't take much chilli. The chilli oil is inside the wanton, not in the sauce. Service was really efficient! Our food came after 5 mins of ordering. We ended up overeating because we ordered too much food. Initially we ordered egg tarts as well but thankfully they ran out of it (and it's just the start of dinner). Also ordered 4 bowls of rice plus 2 barleys and 2 watercress honey (if you like watercress, you must try!). Total bill came up to $90!

I had the curry chicken set which comes with a drink and a bowl of rice as well. I was quite shocked by the very little amount of rice that they gave for one person, it's about 2/3 of what usually a bowl or rice amounts to. For the drink, I had barley, which tasted really really bland. Not only it's diluted, but there's no taste of sugar as well. I had to ask for sugar (no extra charge) and add it inside else I can't even drink at all. don't recommend you to order the barley. As for the curry chicken, it's quite disappointing as well. It does not taste as good as how the picture looks like, the curry was not thick at all! In fact it's quite watery and there was only one drumstick and one piece of potato maybe that's why they gave so little rice, to complement the one drumstick and one potato.

I think it's better to order their toasts next time.

Just before our flight at midnight, my family decided to have some food before boarding at Ruyi! Ruyi has quick service and fairly affordable Chinese cuisine. I had Shrimp Dumplings Noodles in Soup ($8.50) which was quite nice! Very generous amount of noodles, shrimps and vegetables! However, they did not cut the vegetables and thus I had a hard time eating it. I enjoyed eating the dumplings though. There was about 5 of them, which is more than enough! I think it's quite reasonable for $8.50. Service was quite fast, you go to counter and order, and then wait for awhile before going back to the counter to collect your dishes!

Hans has affordable set lunches and do head there if you're thinking affordable plus quality food! I ordered a grilled fish dory set ($9.80) that comes with soup of the day and a drink of your choice. There's no extra service charge or GST as it's all included in the price that you see on the menu already.

The soup comes with garlic bread as well. It tastes quite hard so you've to dip the bread into the soup! The mushroom soup is quite nice. The grilled dory fish was quite a thick slice, and I didn't think it was that nice, not much flavour. It's as though the marinating wasn't done properly and I was just eating a normal piece of white steamed fish that was slightly grilled. Adding some lemon juice over the fish didn't help to improve the taste at all. However the coleslaw and wedges were great!

Even so, I will still come back to hans to try their spaghetti next time!

Ordered the spinach, char siew, sweet & sour pork and 2 bowls of rice for $8.60. The pork was just freshly cooked from kitchen, you can taste the crunchiness in the outer layer. The sweet and sour sauce was nicely blend, it wasn’t too sour or sweet, the taste is just nice. The char siew is pretty normal like those you get from chicken rice or char siew stall. The spinach was my personal favourite! It was fried using garlic and dried shrimps. I would strongly recommend this to spinach lovers out there! You can always ask for curry sauce or the dark sauce gravy. The curry is great as it isn't too spicy, good for people who have low tolerance of spicy food!