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Canton Paradise is running a too good to resist weekday tea time promotion - 50% off all dimsum items and that made my weekday more than happy. Prices listed below are before discount. Baked Black Truffle Chicken Bun ($5.80) These glazed babies are on the sweet side and made up of mostly minced chicken fillings with that mild waft of truffle oil. Fried Prawn in Beancurd Skin ($5.30) Prawn paste rolled in beancurd skin and deep fried hardly goes wrong, especially with a dose of vinegar too. Steamed Prawn Dumping ($5.80) Steamed Pork Dumpling ($5.80) Tasty morsels that are my usual yumcha suspects though they are pretty decent. Steamed Rice Roll with Fried Dough Stick ($4.90) Dough sticks were on the soggy side and rice rolls draped over it, nothing to scream about but I always cannot resist ordering these. Steamed Glutinous Rice ($4.90) Moist and fluffy rice parcel meant for the hungry, granted these are not huge to begin with but glutinous rice always fills me up. Prawn Beancurd Skin L...

A recent savoury pumpkin cake craving pointed me to Royal China - reservations made in advance with a super gruff telephone operator and seats given right at the entrance - before I even launch into a bitchfit on how there was none of that pumpkin cake on the menu, I was already disappointed with Royal China. Standards have been dwindling over the years yet I still had a soft spot somehow. I call it diehard, sometimes. A weekend only menu item, I jumped at it - turned out to be petite sized crispy char siew buns. The balance of sweet and savoury were skewed towards the latter for me. The only reasonably delicious one was the humble glutinous rice parcel. Pan-fried Bean curd roll stuffed with minced prawn ($5.60) If there is a next delicious, it had to be these deep fried bean curd prawn paste fritters! Perfectly crispy with a dab of vinegar. The poorly made spinach dumplings was a joke when the skin tore and could barely contain the fillings.   Baked Egg Tart ($4.80) Even egg ...