Paradise Dynasty @ Paradigm Mall — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

Went for an early birthday celebration / dinner for my mum in this restaurant. For our party of 5, there is a nice round table in the middle of the restaurant which suits us perfectly. First impressions of the place is that it is clean, the tables are well spaced, and just the right amount of decor and light.

The service was excellent, with our waitresses being very attentive and pleasant with a friendly manner and good attitude. The food was also very delicious, with the star of the dishes being the dumplings as expected. I would say that the dumplings are as good or even better than I thought it would be, when compared to most places out there. We ordered the 8 xiao long baos set with rainbow colours, and one 10 pieces set of original xiao long baos. I don't feel like I had enough and wanted to order more, which show that it is indeed really delicious.

As for the other dishes, we had two fried rice sets, noodles, and a self-made wrap dish, which was more than enough for all of us. The final price for the amount of food that we ordered was a pleasant surprise as well, as it was lower than I expect and cheaper than most places out there with the same atmosphere and good quality. Overall, I would definitely return again and I highly recommend this restaurant if you want to experience good food, good atmosphere, and...

We've eaten here quite a few times with family but first time just my wife and me. We had the original xiao long pao, vegetable dumplings and shared a bowl on wanton noodles. Xiao long pao was good, very well balanced (not fatty) and the skin was just right. Held together with the soup inside. Very good. Vegetable dumplings not so great. The skin was kind of soft and wrinkled but tasted okay. Noodles was mixed. Wanton was pretty good. The soup was tasty and well balanced for salt and richness. The noodle was disappointing; didn't seem to have the usual texture and chewiness, quite starchy. In terms of food, this is quite good and we'll come back again. Compared to the same Paradise restaurants in other places, it's about the same except for the noodles.

Update from 2023 Dec 1. We came back to try again and it was another mixed quality for what we got. Noodles are okay and quite reliable in quality. Vegetable dumplings was very lacking in refinement. Everything chopped coarsely with some big pieces and done small ones. Mushroom pork dumplings were stuffed full but I felt they were too rich; lost the balance with the mushroom. Broccoli a bit undercooked. Sweet and sour soup wasn't what we expected, given we've had it from other Paradise Dynasty restaurants. Overall a drop...

We were attracted by their interior concept and a huge buddha statue sits in the centre of the restaurant.

Decided to try their dim sum happy hour special (3pm -5pm)which gives 40% discount on all dim sum order. Specifically, their xiao loong bao, as they advertised heavily in the restaurant. Their xiao loong bao comes in varieties of color and ingredients! We had decided to try the special crab meat xiao loong bao and foie gras xiao loong bao, among pthers side dishes.

The crab meat xiao loong bao is tasty and can definitelt taste the sweetness of the crab in the juice. However, the foie gras ones were not to our taste. Its overwhelming taste didnt bode well with the juice of the xiao long bao. Its quite pungent.

However we do like their century egg. It has all the quality of a good century egg, almost.

The other interesting thing is the huge buddha statue, over looking the entire restaurant. It is a nice piece of decoration but uncomfortable at the same time. Eating meat infront of Buddha seems...weird.

Overall, their exotic xiao loong bao may not hit a high note for us, but the creativity of the chefs is to be commended! Perhaps will come back again to try their other dishes in the menu!

And the 40% discount during the happy...