Visited on 1st May 2015 (Fri - Public Holiday).
Price for Normal Weekend: $68++ per person (Excluding drinks)
Price for Public Holiday: $78++ per person (Excluding drinks)
Price for Mother/Father's Day: $98++ per person (Excluding drinks)
Price of Tea in a teapot: Between $6++ - $12++ per person (Free Flow)
Time: 11.30am - 2.30pm (3 hours long)
MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND DIM SUM BRUNCH BUFFET
Saturday and Sunday, 7 and 8 May 2016
11:30am to 2:30pm
SGD98++ per adult, SGD49 per child
Complimentary Longevity Bun for all dine-in guests
Complimentary serving of Double-boiled Imperial Swiftlet’s Nest for all mothers who dine in for the Dim Sum Brunch Buffet.
MOTHER’S DAY SEVEN-COURSE SET MENUS
Monday to Sunday, 2 to 8 May 2016
Lunch: 11:30am to 2:30pm
Dinner: 6:30pm to 10:30pm
SGD128++ per diner (Deluxe Set)
SGD188++ per diner (Premium Set)
Hai Tien Lo is the award-winning classic Cantonese restaurant with a contemporary twist. What i like about Hai Tien Lo is you can slowly take your time to enjoy the ala carte buffet from 11.30am to 2.30pm (3 hours long)
Waiting area at the reception
Reception counter
I love these row of seats as you can view the hotel atrium!
Beautiful lighted cages at the hotel atrium
Inner dining area at the back... (Nothing to see but good for quiet lunch)
They have a few private dining area
Complimentary Appetizer:
Cashew Nuts with Coconut Flakes
My first time having cashew nuts with coconut and they have certainly delighted my taste buds before we started the meal.
White Royal Peony (Delicate white tea with fruity apricot and flowery English rose)
I love the light and refreshing fragrance of flowery rose tea here! 2 persons at $12++!
Double-boiled Mini "Buddha Jumps Over The Wall" with Cordycep
The soup was robust with full flavour, very tasty!
Braised Whole Abalone with Bean Curd in Conpoy Sauce
The abalone was quite tender with very nice conpoy sauce!
Deep-Fried Sea Fish with Pine Mushrooms in Supreme Stock
Hmm.. Somehow I feel that this fish fillet tasted like our usual fish n chips outside. Not impressive at all...
Baked Crayfish with Lemon Butter Sauce
The meat was quite tough. I took a long time to pull the meat out. Not very used to lemon butter sauce. Somehow I feel that the little sour lemon butter sauce didn't complement that well with the crayfish...
Braised Fish Maw and Shredded Abalone in Thick Broth
Deep-fried Whitebait Fish with Pepper and Salt
This was a nice appetizer to start with!
Steamed Shrimp Dumplings with Coriander
I like the non-sticky crystal skin with very fresh and succulent shrimp, tasted very aromatic together with the coriander. A very great shrimp dumpling!
Poached Fresh Prawns
The prawns were really fresh with natural sweetness.. It was served together with the finger bowl and the soy sauce. I like to go hotel restaurants as they will provide you the finger bowl without asking. This is call good service!
Steamed Sea Perch with Preserved Vegetables and Fresh Bean Curd Sticks
Was a tad disappointed with the sea perch here as I do not like the whole combination and it was quite bland.
Stir-fried Carrot Cake with Sakura Shrimps in Chef’s Signature Homemade XO Chilli sauce
The carrot cake cubes were not that soft as what I've expected it to be. The homemade XO chilli sauce was not impressive neither, probably the chef did not put in much sauce to fry together?
Wok-fried Grouper Fish with Ginger and Spring Onion
This simple grouper fish turned out to be better than my expectation. It was tender with very aromatic taste!
Barbecued Roasted Duck
I love the aromatic crispy skin but the meat was quite tough so this did not impress me.
Deep-fried Bean Curd with Minced Pork, Prawns and Mushrooms
This was a nice fried dim sum!
Deep-fried Prawns with Salted Egg
The salted egg yolk was lackluster. Was quite disappointed in this dish...
Milk Pudding with Papaya
. I had quite a few of this. A very healthy dessert!
Double-boiled Pears with Osmanthus and White Fungus
I like this refreshing dessert!
Coconut Cake, Brownie and Cheesecake
Simply adored the coconut cake so much, the cake was soft with very aromatic coconut taste! The other two cakes were decent.
Honeydew, Grapes, Watermelon
After we settled the bill, they will put the receipts into this envelope. I like the way they present the receipts in an envelope. It shows the difference to dine at premium chinese restaurants and normal chinese restaurants. :)
Overall Impression: Out of the 14 dishes that I've ordered, 7 were great while 7 were a tad disappointing. So it's like half good half bad.
Service was quite good and polite but they always seemed to be short of manpower each time I'm there and halfway the meal, we waited for nearly 40 mins for the next dish to be served. (Not sure if it's the kitchen or the waitress screwed up our order which caused such a long delay)
Considering the relax and nice ambience with not bad food quality, I will still recommend this place.
You can click here for their Weekday Dim Sum Buffet.
*Recommended*
*Complimentary Carpark Coupon provided!
