Its been a number of years since we last ate at Paradise Dynasty. Menu appears to have changed. We've been wanting to know for a while if they were anything like how we remembered them and ended up at the branch in VivoCity (1 HarbourFront Walk, #02-128 /130). Since some of the dishes we liked from the past were no longer on menu, we'd form our opinions based on what they have.
Some fried rice with vegetables (鲜蔬炒饭). Better tasting than the eggless one from Din Tai Fung 😬. This had bits of something that might have been nai bai and spring onions. Lots of crunch. A little less oily and a bit more salt, it would have been awesome.
Mixed feelings over their mapo tofu. The flavour's nice - one could get the flavour from Sichuan peppercorn (花椒) and fermented black beans. Sauce was a little more watery than I was expecting and there seemed to be an underlying sweetness. Can't decide if I actually liked this or not.
I remember liking the foie gras xiao long bao (鹅肝小笼包) from them. Wanted to know if I still do while fully acknowledging that it's been at least a decade since the last time we had them. In retrospect, I did think that I remembered them tasting better in the past; and that these today don't taste the same. But I can never be sure. The ones we had today weren't bad though. Just not as impressive as what I thought I recalled of them. Confusing eh?
These layered cake (千层油糕) were definitely not in the same leagues as the ones from Nanjing Impressions. What we had here was nothing but a poor imitation of those. There was none of the flavour from the oil/lard as far as we could tell.
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