Kee Hua Chee Live!: MIGF FINE DINING AT BLU MED AT MID-VALLEY

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BLU MED IS A HOT NEW RESTAURANT ON THE BOULEVARD, MIDVALLEY MEGAMALL AND CONVENIENTLY LOCATED LITERALLY AT THE CROSS ROADS BETWEEN MIDVALLEY SHOPPING MALL AND THE GARDENS!

It is on one corner so you cannot miss it and is a fine dining eatery. I expected the prices to cost around RM 80 per person which is so but Blu Med also offers RM 25 for a 3-course meal which is incredible value! The pizza are super marvellous especially Margherita.

Blu Med's MUGF Menu costs RM 188++ per person
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MENU; Eel Kabayaki, Amaebi and Abalone Tartar, Foie Gras soup, Bavettini pasta, Granita of orange and white wine, Folded Veal in marsala sauce, Chocolate Fondant and coffee/tea

Guest of honour was Tunku Dato Seri Tunku Shahabuddin the chairman of Vision Four Media Group and his Australian born wife Datin Seri Jeanette.

2 ambassadors also attended---Spanish ambassador Her Excellency Maria Bassols and Chilean ambassador HE Christian Rehren.

Dato Raymond Liew came with beautiful wife Kok Yul Shin. Dato Raymond Liew is the Managing Partner of McMillan Woods the world famous chartered accountants and will host a major regional event in October attended by Gina Rinehart the world's richest woman or second richest after Liliane Bettencourt who owns L'Oreal.

I also like Blu Med's chandeliers as they are so unique and one of a kind since they consist of bulbs enclosed inside bottles! 1 bulb per bottle and the lower end comes attached with wine glasses! A toast to creativity!

The food is superb as expected since the owner Tan Sri Fumihiko Konishi runs Sushi King, your favourite Japanese chain of sushi and knows his food. He lives in Penang in a magnificent Italianate palazzo since he also loves Italy and spends 1 month each other traversing that land. He spends 9 months in Malaysia and 2 months in his native Japan. What a life.

So you can expect superb cuisine at reasonable prices as his aim is to make good food and wines available to the middle market. You can also see your food being cooked inside the transparent kitchen and Blu Med is fast becoming the de rigeur place to see and be seen!

Salute, chin chin and applausi to the good life at Blu Med!

That goes for Fujifilm too which is the Official Imaging Partner for MIGF Malaysia International Gourmet Festival 2013.

On each table (there were only 2 for 20 guests) was a Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 camera for guests to photograph themselves.

The Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 is an instant camera and guests adored getting their photos produced from the camera within seconds. Each photo took 20 seconds to be fully developed in vivid colour and is the size of a credit card.

This size is ideal to put inside your wallet or purse as a wonderful souvenir for a memorable dinner at Blu Med!

The Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 costs a mere RM 280 which is nothing but the image pack costs RM 27 for 10 shots so each photo costs RM 2.70. But how much is a memory worth?

Blu Med at The Boulevard in a prime location at Mid-Valley Megamall

Blu Med is named in honour of sunny Mediterranean where Blu Med owner, Penang based tycoon Tan Sri Fumihiko Konishi spends a month each year enjoying life

ENTRANCE TO BLU MED AT MIDVALLEY, THE FIRST FINE DINING VENTURE BY SUSHI KING

THE COOL CHEFS CATALOGUE FOR MIGF 2013

FOODIE DATO KOK WEE KIAT, BLU MED MANAGER FABIO IANNONE AND DATIN KOK POH TIAM

BLU MED KITCHEN

DINERS CAN SEE THEIR FOOD BEING PREPARED

BLU MED DISPLAYS ITS MIGF AWARD PROUDLY FOR THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE TO SEE

CHEF TATSUYA IKEUCHI IS APPLAUDED AS CHEF EXTRAORDINAIRE

BLU MED IS ACCLAIMED BY MIGF'S DATO STEVE DAY AND YTM TUNKU LAKSAMANA TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN AS AMONG THE FINEST RESTAURANTS IN MALAYSIA FOR 2013

THE SIGNATURES OF MIGF ROYAL PATRON YTM TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN TUANKU JAAFAR AND DATO STEVEN DAY ATTEST TO THE PRESTIGE AND AUTHORITY OF MIGF'S AWARDS

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF FUJIFILM MALAYSIA YASUNOBU NISHIYAMA AND SENIRO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PAUL HO

FUJIFILM IS A MAJOR SPONSOR OF MIGF MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL GOURMET FESTIVAL 2013

YASUNOBU NISHIYAMA AND PAUL HO FROM FUJIFILM

MD OF FUJIFILM YASUNOBU NISHIYAMA AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FUJIFILM PAUL HO

YASUNOBU NISHIYAMA, PAUL HO, DATO KOK WEE KIAT AND DATIN KOK POH TIAM

KEE HUA CHEE WEARING HIS OWN PORTRAITS ON HIS PANTS AND CHAIRMAN MAO ON HIS BOSOM AND DATIN SU DAY, CO-FOUNDER OF MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL GOURMET FESTIVAL

DATO KOK WEE KIAT, DATIN KOK, PAUL HO, FABIO, YASUNOBU NISHIYAMA, DATO STEVE DAY AND DATIN SU DAY

KEE HUA CHEE AT RIGHT INSISTS ON JOINING THE PARTY

DATIN SERI JEANETTE TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN, TUNKU DATO SERI SHAHABUDDIN, DATIN KOK YUL SHIN AND DATO RAYMOND LIEW OF MCMILLANWOODS

DATIN SERI JEANETTE, TUNKU DATO SERI SHAHABUDDIN, DATIN SU DAY, DATIN KOK YUL SHIN AND DATO RAYMOND LIEW

DATO STEVE DAY, DATIN STEVE DAY, AMBASSADOR OF CHILE HIS EXCELLENCY CHRISTIAN REHREN, AMBASSADOR OF SPAIN HER EXCELLENCY MARIA BASSOLS, DATIN TAN MIN YEE AND DATO TAN BOON PUN

DATO SHAMSUL FALAK AND PETER LO

DATIN KOK YUL SHIN AND AMBASSADOR OF SPAIN HER EXCELLENCY MARIA BU\\ASSOLS

DATIN TAN MIN YEE, DATO RAYMOND LIEW AND AMBASSADOR OF CHILE HIS EXCELLENCY CHRISTIAN REHREN

DATO RAYMOND LIEW OF MCMILLAN WOODS AND CHILEAN AMBASSADOR

VIEW OF BLUE MED COCKTAIL PARTY FROM FIRST FLOOR WHERE WE HAD OUR SUMPTUOUS DINNER

I LOVE THIS CHANDELIER MADE OF LIGHT BULBS INSIDE BOTTLES!

2 TABLES FOR 20

CHAIRMAN OF VISION FOUR TUNKU DATO SERI SHAHABUDDIN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF VISION FOUR DATO STEVE DAY

2 OLD FRIENDS WHO HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR NEAR 4 DECADES

AHEM, I DUNNO HOW TO ROTATE THIS PHOTO TO UPRIGHT POSITION BUT THIS IS THE BOTTLED CHANDELIER!

CHEF WAN AND DATIN SU DAY

CHEF WAN AND DATO KOK WEE KIAT

CHEF WAN AND FARAH LAI

GROUP PHOTO

BLU MED CHEF TATSUYA IKEUCHI AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SUSHI KING AKIHIKO HIJIOKA WHO RUNS THE RESTAURANT SIDE OF THE TEXCHEM EMPIRE

THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR HER EXCELLENCY MARIA BASSOLS SAYS SHE WILL ASK THE SPANISH MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO TRAIN NEW AMBASSADORS AT VISION FOUR AND MIGF!

"MIGF PARTIES AND DINNERS ATTRACT THE BEST AND MOST COSMOPOLITAN GUESTS FROM MALAYSIA AND OVERSEAS," SAYS THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR

THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF FUJIFILM MALAYSIA LISTENING TO THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR

THE CHAIRMAN OF VISION FOUR LISTENING TO THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR MARIA BASSOLS

PAUL HO, SEBIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FUJIFILM LISTENING TO SOANISH AMBASSADOR

HIS EXCELLENCY CHRISTIAN REHREN THE CHILEAN AMBASSADOR GIVING HIS SPEECH

DATO KOK WEE KIAT GIVING HIS VIEWS ON THE MENU

"i AM NOT IMPRESSED BY THE STARTER BUT THE SOUP WAS GOOD"

'THE PASTA WAS NOT CHEF TATSUYA'S BEST DISH AS THERE WAS TOO MUCH SAUCE AND THE PASTA WAS DROWNING IN IT"

'THE MAIN COURSE OF FOLDED VEAL WAS EXCELLENT AND THE PRESENTATION WAS GREAT. THE EGGPLANT HAD THE RIGHT TEXTURE AND SIZE AND I THINK IT WAS BETTER THAN THE VEAL!"

"YOU NEED A SOMMELIER TO PAIR THE WINES AS I PERSONALLY THINKING THE PAIRING WAS RATHER POOR"

"CALL ME ECCENTRIC BUT I THINK THE PLACEMENT OF THE DESSERT ITEMS WAS THE WRONG WAY. BY THE TIME I FINISHED THE CHOCOLATE FONDANT I COULDN'T TASTE ANYTHING ELSE"