New Paris Restaurant

How often do you see a two-storey Chinese ("dai chao") restaurant? Not common in smaller states, but quite a number in KL right? Well, this New Paris Restaurant in SS2, PJ, has not two, not three, but FOUR levels of dining fantasy!

Rachel recommended this place as she's been there before. The place was super crowded when we visited last Saturday. We had to climb up to level three as the first two floors were fully occupied. This restaurant is definitely not the same class as the upmarket Tai Thong, Teochew Oriental, Spring Garden, The Hakka Restaurant, and the shits alike. It's a normal restaurant serving normal Chinese food with it's four storey air-conditioned building and an army of staffs and chefs and swarms of hungry customers and hard-to-get parking spaces.
One thing I find peculiar is the way they serve their rice. Although there were only two of us, they gave us a potful of rice instead of the normal per serving norm. We were charged RM2.00 (RM1.00/person?) for that pot of rice. I guess this is good, as some people are just "fan-toong" (someone who eats a lot of rice) and thus can scoop as much as they want as rice is kinda like free-flow in New Paris.
We ordered their Specialty Tofu, which are lightly fried on the outside and soft like tao-fu-fah on the inside, topped liberally with minced pork and pickled veggies. This dish is good. Liked the texture, tasted like egg. RM7.00.
Steamed Tilapia Jeong-Jing style. This dish is the first that arrived on our table. Can you believe it? Just 5-minutes after ordering, it pops on our table. I think they pre-steam this fish and keep it heated, till when there's an order, the hot chili paste is poured on top of it and served. This fish is crap. The flesh is mashed up like tao-fu-fah, not a good thing on fish. Signifies it's dead for a bloody long time. Bad tilapia, and costed us RM16.00.
Veggie was Stir-fry Lettuce with Pickled Tofu (what's new!). This dish is very ordinary, have tasted better ones elsewhere, nothing to shout about. RM6.00.
And for meat, we had the Guinness Pork Ribs ("hak beh kuat"). This is good according to Rachel, but seriously I've tasted pork ribs that's very much more superior than this, in a small state called Kulai in Johor. The ribs here are fatty. The sauce is fragrant with a tinge of bittersweet, which is tasty, but it's too starchy-thick! If I were to grade this with a scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate this dish a 7. This is RM9.00.
Dining here is like a fast food experience. The waitress take your order the moment you're seated, and expects you to blabber your brain out instantaneously too. No pictorial menu provided. They expect you to know all their specialty dishes since they are so successful. Food came real fast too despite the number of customers. Not a surprise if you see their kitchen...
There's really an army of chefs inside the kitchen. All working in a synchronous harmony. I bet you don't see this in McD or KFC!
Food were mediocre at best. Simple basic Chinese food also can be so like so-so only, I guess their better specialty food cannot differ much lah! But having said that, I'd like to go again and try out their other dishes. Provided someone is willing to belanja lah!
If you wanna experience the incredible success of Restoran New Paris, dining with many many other strangers in a busy air-conditioned multiple-floor restaurant which has a funky western name, point your GPS set to:

No. 62, 64, 66, Jalan SS2/72, Petaling Jaya. Tel: 03-7955 9180/0186.