Paradise Inn

I once worked at City Hall for almost 5 years and Funan had been one of our lunch places, occasionally Paradise Inn for birthdays and farewells. This time I went there to eat with my sister (an ex-colleague whom I'm close to and everybody says we look alike!) for our mini lunar new year celebration. We love the fish head there and have been drooling to eat it again.

As usual, this place is always packed with office workers during lunch hours. Sometimes it can be really noisy with all the business talkings and the service can be quite slow.

We ordered vegetable, meat, fish and definitely, as Cantonese, we must have soup (we are soup critics too..hehe..).  Then we will chat away with our food, sister almost choked on a fish bone while we chat. Luckily she has fish eating experience of level 21, so a fish bone does not cause any harm at all..

 Black Chicken with Ginseng Soup, good for women! The soup is really tasty..but don't know why we need to drink a lot of water after drinking the soup..

 Sauteed french beans with dried shrimps and preserved turnip. Good to eat with rice, slightly oily though..never mind, once a while only!

 Crisp fried shrimp paste chicken (wings). Great with rice too!

Steamed 'Song' fish. Used to be with homemade garlic chilli, which was alot more delicious. Now they use ginger paste, we are really not used to it. I think we will only eat it again with the garlic chilli paste.

Overall here are my views:

Ambience 2.5/5
Food 3/5
Service 3/5 (depends if it's peak hour)
Price Slightly steep
Toilet Availability 0/5 (please use Funan toilets)

Check out their website at http://www.paradisegroup.com.sg/ for their weekday $1 special. They have membership too.

xoxo

Bosses (黑社會)

After the nice trip at the world's largest aquarium, I forced my friend to go to Bosses at Vivocity for hi-tea. I always like La Mian with stewed beef (especially it rains nowadays, soupy food becomes a great comfort food to me) and dim sum there. Besides the food, I love the ambience and the scenery that the restaurant provides. Romance.

Basically Bosses' theme of black adds into the opulence, overlooking the harbour, cable cars, cruise ships and skies....and they played christmas carols in the background. The service there was good too, they even bother to add a slice of lime into our coke. No wonder their coke tasted so much better than other places although it still comes out from the can.

 

We had fried fish skin as appetizers. Looks creepy and inhuman but they are soooo crispy and not fishy at all. We finished the whole plate in a mintue while waiting for our dishes.

Nice soft radish cake made of real radish unlike other restaurants that used factory made radish cake.

 Each of their har kao has 2 prawns inside!

Siew mai also have 1 and half prawns!

 

We sipped the soup until the last drop and nothing left for the dim sum. I've tried their porridge before previously and it was delicious too. Too bad there were only the 2 of us, otherewise we would have ordered more to try.

I have tiny bitsy problem with finding the toilet though. There were 2 cubicles embedded in the wall at the back of the restaurant, I got to "poke" the wall to find them. However, their tap is embedded under the mirror, making the toilet area sleek and stylish.

So here are my views:
Ambience 4/5
Food 4/5
Service 4/5
Price Reasonable
Toilet availability 2/5

The address of Bosses is 1 Harbourfront Walk, Vivocity #02-156
Tel: 63769740

Operating Hours
Mon - Thu: 10:00 - 22:00 hrs
Fri - Sat: 10:00 - 22:30 hrs
Sun: 10:00 - 22:00 hrs

Will definitely go back there to try their custard buns.

xoxo