Ole Ole Bali - A trip to Solaris Mont Kiara

Nowadays seems Solaris Mont Kiara is a hot place for diners and clubbing kaki. All I know about Solaris Mont Kiara is that I always saw it lighted at night beside the highway, when I travelling in and out of Kuala Lumpur. Do not want to stay outdated; me and George decided to explore it out on one of the Friday night.

Finally we found our way to SohoKL via Sri Hartamas. For those who don’t know about it, SohoKL is a 1-stop hub comprising of the worlds finest in international cuisines and clubbing scenes.

http://www.sohokl.com/main.aspx

Getting there:

http://www.sohokl.com/images/map.htm

As we are not so into clubbing, we focused our mind on those dining place. Finally, we decided to try out Ole Ole Bali, as I am quite impressed by its design and atmosphere.

The shop name explained everything; it’s a Bali style restaurant selling Bali’s food. It was quite crowded, so I guess shouldn’t be too bad. The outlet here has two floors and a pretty huge dining area outside the restaurant (smoking area). We are lead to the second floor, and we choose to sit on the Japanese Style “Tatami”. From our seat view down to the ground floor, we could have a full view of the open kitchen.


Time to decide what to eat, let’s have a look on the menu: A lot of grilled stuff in this restaurant and also Bali style’s rice set. Since already have enough Ayam Betutu and various kind of rice during my recent visit to Bali, we decided to go for something different.

First, we ordered Ole Ole Trio @ RM38 from Balinese Specialties menu. It consists of 3 nicest starters: Ole-Ole BBQ Wings, Sate Lilit and Cumi-Cumi Goreng and served with Sambel Matah (Lemongrass sambal), Sambel Terasi and Tartar sauce.

Cumi-Cumi Goreng (deep fried squid) is crispy and nice.

The best of these 3 should be Sate Lilit. It is basically barbecued mix seafood paste wrapped around a lemongrass stalk. It tastes much better than the one I tried in Bali, soft and unique texture with strong fragrance of the lemongrass.

The Ole-Ole BBQ Wings are not bad, but I found nothing special about it. Too much of it make me feel very oily.

Next up is the Grilled Beef Steak Sandwich @ RM23. The half cooked beef steak taste nice with onions and BBQ sauce, and the meat is tender soft. However, the sandwich bread is a bit hard which minus some mark. It served together with fries and it’s indeed a filling dish after all…



After eating all the fried and grilled food, is best to have a cup of hot honey lemon @ RM6. It served together with a piece of peanut biscuit, which is sweet and nice.



Overall the food here is considered ok; just that too much of grilled and fried stuff make me feel quite oily. The price is quite expensive, not everyone can afford it.

However, the atmosphere saves a lot of marks. There’s a lot of artwork round here, make me feel as I’m in a Balinese art gallery.






Give it a try if you are fancy of Balinese food and afford for the price, why not?