Paradise Group Holdings Pte Ltd is a Singapore-based restaurant group incorporated in 2002 by Eldwin Chua, and Edlan Chua."Paradise accused of tampering with gas metres"
''AsiaOne'', Khushwant Singh Jan 20, 2014 The company's restaurants serve a variety of Chinese cuisine. Their brands include Seafood Paradise, Paradise Inn, Taste Paradise, Paradise Dynasty, KungFu Paradise, Paradise Pavilion, One Paradise and Canton Paradise. In 2015 the company operates restaurants are currently in

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History

Paradise Group Holdings opened its first restaurant, Seafood Paradise, in 2002 at Defu Lane industrial estate in

. Three more Seafood Paradise outlets were later opened in Singapore. In 2006, the group opened Taste Paradise in

Chinatown A Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Austra ...

and in 2009, it moved to its current location at

ION Orchard ION Orchard (pronounced as I-On), formerly known as the Orchard Turn Development or Orchard Turn Site, is a shopping mall in Singapore, next to Orchard MRT station. It is the retail component of an integrated retail and residential development ...

shopping mall. That year the group launched the first outlet of Paradise Inn at Funan DigitaLife Mall. In 2010, the group launched One Paradise, their catering arm, and also Paradise Dynasty, at ION Orchard, serving upscale northern and southern Chinese dishes. Paradise Pavilion also opened in 2010 at

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, offering

Peking duck Peking duck is a dish from Beijing (Peking) that has been prepared since the Imperial era. The meat is characterized by its thin, crispy skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the d ...

and modern Chinese cuisine. The Paradise Group also launched KungFu Paradise, an all-day café with both eastern and western dishes aimed at the younger crowd. In December 2011, Paradise Group embarked on another eatery, Canton Paradise which is a Hong Kong-style eatery offering Cantonese, Shunde cuisine and

dim sum Dim sum () is a large range of small Chinese dishes that are traditionally enjoyed in restaurants for brunch. Most modern dim sum dishes are commonly associated with Cantonese cuisine, although dim sum dishes also exist in other Chinese cuis ...

. In 2012, Paradise took part in a government-sponsored study designed to improved productivity in the restaurant industry. The resulting efficiency helped the company double its earnings that year to $50 million. Also in 2012, the company collaborated with Chaswood Resources to develop restaurants in

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. By 2014, Paradise Group Holdings was operating 34 restaurants, but faced charges in Singapore of tampering with the gas meters at 24 of them. In spite of this, the company continued to open new restaurants. In 2015, the group's Malaysian subsidiary opened its first Thai restaurant in Malaysia.

Awards

*Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 *Singapore Prestige Brand Award 2011 *SME1 Asia Awards 2011 *Enterprise 50 Award 2011 *Epicurean Star Award 2011′Samsung Business Excellence Award – Fine Dining′ at the Epicurean Star Award 2011
Taste Paradise on the Restaurant Association of Singapore

References

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Restaurants established in 2002 Restaurant chains in Singapore Singaporean brands