Food Picks: Paradise Teochew refreshes menu with over 30 new dishes
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The new additions encompass a wider range of seafood dishes cooked with characteristically Teochew techniques, like this Steamed Marble Goby With Aged Preserved Turnip.
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SINGAPORE – If you were already overwhelmed by Paradise Teochew’s 100-odd dish menu, brace yourself – another 30 items have joined the fray.
The additions encompass a wider range of seafood dishes cooked with characteristically Teochew techniques, like steaming, braising and stir-frying – delicate approaches meant to highlight the ingredients’ natural flavours.
One standout ingredient is the restaurant’s 15-year-aged preserved turnip, which lends its funky intensity to several dishes, including two new entrants.
One of them is the steamed marble goby ($14 for 100g), which the preserved turnip complements beautifully. Flecks of preserved turnip, spring onions, conpoy, dried shrimp and hot lard carpet the fish’s sweet white flesh, an aromatic punch to an otherwise mild dish.
The turnip is also mixed into the salted pork fried rice ($32), along with other vegetables. Fragrant and flavourful, this is a dish well worth the carbs. It pairs nicely with tangier offerings like the casserole of stewed tofu, organic cauliflower and tomato ($34).
Stewed Tofu And Organic Cauliflower With Tomato In Casserole.
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Other new dishes do not quite land as well. The salt-baked quail ($28) is tough and ferrous. The raw red roe crab ($15 for 1kg) is fresh and well-marinated, but not meaty enough to offer any real satisfaction.
Regardless, with a menu as extensive as this, diners are bound to find something that suits their fancy.
Where: 03-10 Takashimaya Shopping Centre, 391A Orchard Road str.sg/DTny
MRT: Orchard
Open: 11am to 3pm, 6 to 10.30pm (weekdays); 10am to 3.30pm, 6 to 10.30pm (weekends)
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