Paradise Dynasty

While visiting Bloomingdales for the first time, we saw a picture of this restaurant’s signature xiao long bao on their window. We decided to come back to try out the different flavors of these soup dumplings. We didn’t come once, but twice. First time we ordered the dumplings, wonton soup, wood ear, and pork chop. For our second trip, we were joined by a visitor from Taiwan who shared with us this restaurant group’s brand of over 10 eateries all over Asia . And how lucky we were to have stumbled upon their first North American restaurant here in OC. For our second trip we tried fried rice, noodle soup, tofu, cucumber, and ordered two deserts, black sesame mochi, and red bean glutinous rice roll. Both were freshly made, soft, easy bite and just the right amount of sweetness. Overall the portions are not huge, as you might expect, the pork chop has a soft skin, not the crispy Japanese style pork Katsu. Every dish was well prepared. They even elevated the taste of a simple fried-rice. The decor is upscale modern, the service was prompt. The server patiently explained their menu, their signature and popular dishes for us to try. When we couldn’t finish our meal, our leftovers were packed in an insulated bag. Next time we are in OC, we would definitely have a meal there again. If you do try their soup dumplings, remember to start with the original flavor, then work up the flavors: black truffle, cheese, crab, garlic, BbQ pork, Szechuan and finally kimchi. No, the kimchi is not too intense, you can do it. Vegetarian options: One person in our group is a vegetarian so we ordered, several items from their vegetarian menu-tofu, cucumber, wood ear.

Great food, amazing noodles and very good starters like the spring rolls and wontons, unfortunately the deserts were not too fun Great vegan and vegetarian selection in the menu, would definitely recommend to any people looking for a vegetarian option

Eating here is a beautiful dining experience. I can't think of a time where there was a better atmosphere while I ate xiao long bao. Speaking of which, the xiao long bao are good and I enjoyed trying the various flavors, of which the kimchi was my favorite. Other dishes were good but not outstanding, so I'd regard this restaurant as being more about presentation rather than world class flavor. Service was top notch, which made our meal even better. All in all, this is a great restaurant to try, and is perfect as a date spot. Update: Visited for a second time and similarly had a 5 star experience. This time around they offered pho xiao long bao and it was delicious.

You guys know that I’m a discount girly and this deal is too good not to share. Paradise Dynasty is doing its biggest collab with Phoholic and they’ve come up with a pho-inspired xiao long bao! You can try a basket of 6 for only 5 dollars until March 15, it goes back to $14 after. Don’t forget to get all your favorites while you’re there, like the sweet and sour pork ribs, spicy shrimp and pork wontons, and these radish pastries that always sell out within the first two hours! Always have to end with something sweet with the panda buns :) Thanks for reading! ^-^

The food was excellent!

The food was good but not the best. My dad ordered the Prawn and Kurobuta Pork Wonton in Chili Oil which was good the inside was good and the sauce was good. We also ordered the Stir-fried French Bean with Minced Pork and Preserved Olive Vegetable which was okay but the meat and the sauce improved the flavor. I got the Noodle with Kurobuta Pork Wonton in Chili Oil (Dry) but that was my least favorite dish because it was too spicy and has too much oil in it. I preferred the spicy house noodle and Din tai Fung than here. Overall this place is good but not good enough to for the price. Ding tai Fung maybe better than this place unless Paradise Dynasty improves on their spicy noodle dish.