The prob­lem with hav­ing a sis­ter who’s a chef is that her stan­dards are nat­u­rally high. And since she knows what these exotic dishes are sup­posed to taste like, she won’t set­tle for less.

I am less dis­crim­i­nat­ing. I eat any­thing that looks and tastes rea­son­ably good and pro­nounce it as deli­cious! And some­times I haven’t tasted some of the dishes before, so in my rather bliss­ful igno­rant real­ity, they are pretty damn good. The sis­ter on the other hand chews, tastes, pon­ders, rolls her eyes and then pro­nounces, “Ummmm.… it’s okay.”

Sigh.

Any­way, last week­end, along with sis­ter, Charles and Deb­bie and their friend Michele, we went to try the Olive Beach Brunch. The array was mind bog­gling and Charles began click­ing almost imme­di­ately. Thank­fully, I didn’t have my cam­era or else, I wouldn’t have been able to do jus­tice to the food!

Olive Beach has a nice warm ambi­ence and we got a cosy place inside, right next to some bright burn­ing can­dles. They had lots of dif­fer­ent tinis on offer — kiwi, pineap­ple, orange, choco­late, litchi — and I tried most of them. My favourites were the orange and litchi tini. Yummy!

Besides what’s on offer in the dif­fer­ent sec­tions — soups, breads/cheese, sal­ads they also had a pasta sta­tion where you can order your own pasta. They also had squid, cala­mari, shrimps and oys­ters. They also keep bring­ing things up to your table.

There was also an exten­sive dessert sec­tion, but since I don’t have a sweet tooth, I ended the meal with a penne pasta with mush­rooms and veg­gies in olive oil. Rather nice and light.

They also had a DJ and live music (2 lovely ladies along with a gen­tle­man with a gui­tar) com­ing up to you and play­ing your favourite songs!

I was rather sat­is­fied after that long brunch. I am hop­ing the sis­ter was too.

All pic­tures taken by Charles. If you like food, you can take a look at more here…