Olive Tree Mediterranean Restaurant at the ground floor of Intercontinental is listed a "Award Winning", headed there for high tea one weekend.
The spread was mostly local, nary the "Mediterranean" flavour that the restaurant is famous for.
Caesar Salad, sashimi sushi, pork ribs, rojak!
Chicken drumlet, siew mai, soon kueh, kueh pie tee, chicken tikka, yam cake, pizza, crab claw and curry puff!
Salad spreaaaaaad.
Starters
Salads galore. Potato Salad, Minced chicken salad with spring onion, Make your own caesar salad corner, Potato with chickpeas. Quite a good and delicious salad spread they've got. I returned for seconds, thirds and even forths!
Assorted sushi. Found the rice a little hard but salmon was fresh otherwise.
Rojak Corner. The rojak ingredients were rose apple, apple, cucumber, pineapple and squid. No kangkong, pear nor youtiao (fried doughsticks) to complete the picture. The paste was really good, however.
Kueh Pie Tee. The shell's crunchy and radish filling was rather yummy. Nice!
Mains
Dimsum; Chicken Siewmai, Chicken Pau, Steamed Soon Kueh, Pan Fried Yam Cakes Came across as off the supermart frozen food selection, the siewmai was normal, chicken pau too...the soon kueh's skin was too thick. The carrot cake was nothing spectacular either.
Fried stuff; Fried curry puff, Fried crab claw, Mini Asian Pizza (Tuna), Fried chicken wings. All fried, including the pizza that was pretty good! The curry puff was a bummer, the potato filling was quite bad, as with the crab claw that was a little too rubbery. The chicken wings were...just so-so.
Meats; Oven Roasted Chicken Tikka with Mint Yoghurt, Roasted Hoi Sin Marinated Pork Ribs, Bak Kut Teh, Thai Style Steamed Fish. The tikka chicken's quite a delight, so are the pork ribs that I had serving after serving. The Bak Kut Teh however was a disappointment, the meat tasted as if they were simmered for hours, soft without a bite. The fish was as forgettable as its name.
Fried Mee Goreng; on the sweet side.
Balachan Fried Rice; tasteless.
Tom Ga Kai (Thai Chicken Soup), not spicy at all. Chicken bites were fresh.
Teochew sweet potato porridge with steamed peanuts, pickles, fermented tofu. I did not mind this too much.
Mee Soto. Surprisingly good, the noodles weren't the thick yellow noodle, the thinner ones in fact. Tasty broth with quail eggs, taufoo and bean sprouts.
Desserts
Tapioca kueh, coffee kueh lapis, panna cotta and some cake.
Apricot tart, panna cotta, strawberry mousse shooter, pandan cake, lemon cake, cream puff.
Strawberry chocolate mousse, chocolate pudding, kiwi tart, apricot tart.
Crepe with peach cubes. Was a little on the bitter side somehow, the crepe was soggy as well.
Kuehs (Tapioca cake, Ang Ku Kueh, Lapis Sagu). I found the tapioca cake too hard, pity I didn't stay long enough for the "heavenly" ang ku kueh as described by the sis.
The Kueh Lapis was too dry.
Pastries; Apricot and kiwi tart, Cream puff. Apricot Tart, one of the better desserts. The preserved apricot atop the tart was unbearably soft. The biscuit base is quite good though. The puff's custard was creamy, did not like the added whipped cream they placed between the shell and custard.
Chocolate Pudding, the sis loved it. Chocolatey enough.
Strawberry Mousse Shooter, tasted very much like yoghurt with a sponge tendency.
Strawberry Mousse cake, the same mousse as the shooter, did not fancy this hugely.
Panna Cotta, yummy! I wish I had more...jelly like custard that wobbles down your throat.
Assorted fruits with liquor sauce (strawberry or orange). They had jackfruit, pineapple, yellow watermelon that did not quite go with the recommended sauce.
The food range was rather limited, was expecting maybe a bread corner or Western soup at the very least, but then again, it's more Asian spread being served.
The floor manager and waitresses are very attentive, removing your plates nearly as fast as you finish eating. The FM was kind enough to wait for my sis and I after we returned from the toilet to bring us to our "new" seats because the parents decided on a cosier corner.
I quite liked the courtyard feel to the restaurant...that being said..I doubt I'd be heading back anytime soon!
Olive Tree Mediterranean
1230-5pm
$33++
4 for the price of 3, UOB.
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