Taste Paradise revisited

Once again, here we are at Taste Paradise. Thanks to M, we got a delicious treat! 

Here are the 2 sauces that company the entire meal. Her bee hiam (spicy prawn paste) and green ginger.

The usual appetizer - Prawns with Mangoes

Next up the Famous XO carrot cake. It is available for $1 if you spend more than $100 on the total bill. I love the soft and mushy carrot cake, it is of course unlike what you get in hawker centres where you can hardly taste the white carrot. The carrot cake here has a distinctive carrot taste and it is nicely fried with XO sauce. 

Next up the Peking Duck. Also another lunch time promotion. $28 for the duck. Guess most would consider $28 as rather worth it, but I'm not a fan of duck  nor duck skin, so well... and with just the 3 of us, it can get quite boring eating slabs and slabs of duck skin. 

Next up is what we came for, yes yes as with previous post, this is certainly the highlight of the meal. I admit that theoretically I have sworn off shark's fin, but once in a while, i break my 'vow' by indulging in a superb bowl of soup. Hmmm if only someone could replicate the taste without using shark's fin. I am sure it is possible, shark's fin itself is probably tasteless. 

okay this may seem really offensive to people who ban shark's fin in their tummy. Sorry guys! I am really trying to stay clear of those fins!

Next up a toufu dish, toufu with mushroom and scallop. Nothing fantastic, although the scallop sauce was pleasant, but the toufu was rather disappointing. Worse than many zi char stall i would say.

The final meal before desserts was a bee hoon dish, fried with the meat of the Peiking duck. Also another disappointing dish. Then again maybe because we were too full to find pleasure in it.

Finally desserts: We had the almond cream in papaya and avocado cream with walnut ice-cream. Take my advice, just stick to the avocado cream next time. The almond cream and previously the mango cream that I had is nothing to rave about. The avocado cream on the other hand is very unique, the walnut ice-cream and avocado cream is indeed a perfect match.

Total bill for 3

Taste Paradise
48-49 Mosque Street
6226 2959
1200-1430, 1730-2230

Por Kee

Had a good meal with wonderful company at Porkee - Tiong Bharu. 

This is my favourite dish! Taste very much like well marinated piece of char siew! Really love it! =) In fact I am craving for it now this very moment! SHIOK!

This is the steam fish in thai sauce. Very obliging staff who changed the fire 2 times cos we were slow in devouring the fish and we wanted to keep the fish warm. In addition, we asked for 3 more helping of the thai fish 'soup'. Love the taste of the lemon grass and the wolfberries in the sauce. 
Very yummy toufu fish!
Yam basket
My favourite vegetable, sweet potato leaves!
69 Seng Poh Lane

11:30-14:30

5:30 - 12:30

Tel: 6221 0582

Zhou Kitchen @ Square 2

Went for the Hi-Tea at Zhou Kitchen, it is pretty worth it, but there were many people, the food orders can get really slow and some didnt even have the opportunity to make an appearance on our table. Anyway not much comments about the food, overall was okay. $12.80 +++, total bill ended up at about $20 including the drinks etc that is not included in the buffet.

The keropok was on the table when we step into the restaurant

The Siew Mai was not bad, could taste the nice crunchy prawns

Jelly fish with boiled pork

Pork rib was ordinary, then again i think pork rib anywhere taste the same to me, not a fan of this



Oh the egg tart was good! the pastry was nice and fluffy and the best thing is that it is hot!

char siew sou

carrot cake

Toufu with Mince pork (zha jiang)

Fried fish skin

Century egg porridge with pathetic amount of century eggs

Ngor Hiang

Black sesame paste

Spring roll

Mee Goreng

Rice ball with black sesame

Mango Pomela which was horrible. Where is the mango? where is the pomelo?

Prawn Paste Chicken which i like!

Taste Paradise

Treated mum to Taste Paradise during the festive season. This is the free appetizer - mayonnaise prawns. The sauces that were served to us were something like green ginger sauce, reminds me of chicken rice and 'her bee hiamp' - 'shrimp chili'. The ginger sauce was impressive and addictive!
We ordered 2 set lunches, with an addition of the highly recommended XO carrot cake. Definitely one of the best carrot cake i have eaten, the taste of carrot was discernible with the first bite. Not your usual $2 carrot cake where all you could taste is lard and flour, then again it is $7 compared to the usual $2 in hawker centre. Carrot cake is fried with beansprouts and chinese sausages with a tinge of wok hei. I would certainly recommend this if there are more people to share, but for just the 2 of us, i think it is a little bit too much with our set lunch.

The first course of the meal. Peking Duck, wasabi prawns with watermelon and pan seared foie gras. We were told to eat in the sequence of foie gras, peiking duck and finally Wasabi Prawns. Hmmm then again it has been a while, maybe i got the sequence mixed up, uh well... I realise i am not a fan of foie gras it is too rich for my tastebud.

Yup this is the piece of foie gras, looks kind of burnt but certainly seared to the right texture. Crispy on the outside and soft and mushy on the inside. I am a lover of pig liver, chicken liver, duck liver but Goose liver is just to gamely for me...
This piece of wasabi prawns on top of a piece of watermelon is my favourite, definitely refreshing after the foie gras.

This is the PeKing duck. Not very impressive. A tad to dry.

This is definitely the highlight of the meal! And it is also why i decided to bring my mum here even though i have made the promise to myself to swear of Sharks' Fin. So really no offence to the conservationist out there... but this is the BEST bowl of Shark Fins soup i have ever eaten. I am sure that the 'power' of this soup isnt the result of the Shark Fins but hours and hours of simmering chicken bones, pork bones and scallops. Actually if you taste it carefully, you would be able to tell that the predominate stock used is chicken bones!

Thick slabs of Sharks' Fins. Yes yes i am guilty.

Mum's meat dish was a piece of Cod fish which was so-s0.

I prefer my rack of lamb anytime.

Our last dish before dessert, abalone ramen. This i felt pales in comparison to the other dishes. In fact this dish is really the Anti-Climax of the meal. The meal would have ended on a better note if not for this noodles.

Our pretty pot of Chrysanthemum tea, kept warm with tea lights.

Mum's very yummy avocado cream. Very unique, I would recommend this over the mango cream which was rather ordinary.

This is the total damage. Definitely a good place to bring mama or grandma along. How i wish grandma was alive, she would definitely love this place. Afterall she is a hardcore fan of sharks' fin. Sorry once again to the conservationist out there!

48-49 Mosque Street

6226 2959

1200-1430, 1730-2230