DATO STEVE DAY, CHAIRMAN AND FOUNDER OF MIGF MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL GOURMET FESTIVAL AND WIFE DATIN SU DAY AND HRATCH KHATCHANIAN (YES THIS IS THE SPELLING AS I CHECKED CAREFULLY) THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE WESTIN KUALA LUMPUR HOSTED A SPECIAL AND GRAND MIGF DINNER AT THEIR FLAGSHIP RESTAURANT 5 SEN5ES.
Cocktails and canapes were served at the foyer of the first floor where 5 Sen5es is located. An art exhibition was currently on and I stopped drinking champagne long enough to admire the artworks by artist Charlotte Donvang who I thought was half Vietnamese but she is fully Danish. Her exhibition is called 'Collective Consciousness' and in her own words, are 'flamboyant, colourful and visionary' which perfectly describes me so I initially thought she was referring to me but no, she was exhorting her own works which are rather nice.
I was shocked at her prices---RM 1,900 to RM 5,000 and at first I thought she left out an extra zero. They are certainly cheap by European standards and very reasonable by our poverty-stricken, Third World standards. So go to The Westin now before they are all gone! Datin Su Day bought one on the spot and ordered her minion to deliver it to her limousine straightaway.
Charlotte Donvang is at www.donvang.com or charlotte@donvang.com or FB at donvangatist.
The 'Depth and Deception' art exhibition also featured the works of Aahsan Qureshi who is Pakistani (www.ahsan-qureshi.com) called 'Half-Full' and luckily the epithet also did not refer to me!
5 Sen5es menu is the most original and clever as it is a mini piece of artwork which I am keeping as souvenir. It features a double page card with red paintings by Ahsan Qureshi and Charlotte Donvang on back and front covers and cut obliquely for effect! Very de nice I must say!
The MIGF Festival Menu 2013 features starters of 3 Hot Delicacies of deep fried stuffed oyster, foie gras and duck roll and steamed stuffed fish maw. This is followed by double boiled seafood dumpling consomme in whole coconut.
Main course was stewed pork belly with luo han guo which was so good I demanded a second portion. Call me greedy. When violinist Dennis the Menace Lau and John Teo of New Convox saw me, they too asked for free second helpings the greedy piggies. I was traumatised their stewed pork belly portions were bigger than mine so I started to protest and they both hastily shut me up by giving me a piece of the pork each. So I gobbled down 6 pieces! After all, one can never be too rich or eat too little pig meat. I know the correct term is 'pork' but 'pig meat' sounds more gross.
The second main course was fish fillet with duet corn in crab meat sauce while steamed redc rice with abalone and waxed meat (read that as pig meat) completed the dinner. Dessert was a delightful sweets combo and 4 wines were paired.
The Special MIGF Menu at 5 Sen5es at The Westin Kuala Lumpur costs RM 330++ with wine and RM 190 ++ without wine. Available till 31 October so don't sit on your ass but hightail to The Westin KL right this instant. No need scroll down to see my photos, you can view them in 5 Sen5es while waiting for the food to arrive.
westin.com/kualalumpur
DENNIS LAU, HRACTCH KHTCHANIAN THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE WESTIN KL AND JOHN TEO
DATUK OH SIEW NAM, DATO STEVE DAY AND DATIN OH
DATUK EDDY CHOON OF POH KONG JEWELLERS AND DATO MICHAEL ONG OF ROLLS-ROYCE MALAYSIA AND QUILL GROUP OF COMPANIES
DATO STEVE DAY OF MIGF AND VISION FOUR, ARNE BECKER OF ZURICH INSURANCE AND WIFE CHRTSTNE
DATIN SU DAY, LOON CAESAR AND JOAN FOO MAHONY
CHARLOTTE DONVANG THE DANISH ARTIST
JOAN FOO MAHONY, KEE HUA CHEE WITH HIS WHITE TIGER HEAD BACKPACK, DATIN SU DAY OF MIGF AND LOONG CAESAR
PUTEI ROSMAWINI, DATIN YONG MAYLENE, DATIN SU WAI FUN AND KEE HUA CHEE AND HIS SPECTACULAR TIGER HEAD BACKPACK
PUTERI ROSMAWINI, DATIN YONG MAYLENE, DATIN SU DAY AND KEE HUA CHEE IN TIGER OUTFIT
GUESTS LISTENING TO DATO STEVE DAY'S SPEECH
THE TALL GUY IS AHSAN QURESHI THE PAKISTANI ARTIST
DATIN AND DATUK OH, PUTERI ROSMAWINI AND DATIN YONG MAYLENE
DATIN AND DATUK LAI VOON HON AND HE USED TO OWN THE WESTIN KL BEFORE SELLING IT FOR A MASSIEV PROFIT! LUCKY MAN AS NOW THE VALUE HAS DROPPED AND VOON CAN BUY BACK THE WESTIN AND STILL HAS A HUNDRED MILLION CASH LEFT AT LEAST!
GIRLS SIT, GUYS STAND!
BENJAMIN ZAHN THE HOTEL MANAGER. NOTE HOW HE AND BOSS HRACTCH KHATCHANIAN THE ARMENIAN ALL HAVE STRANGE NAMES...
DENNIS LAU, JOHN TEO, KEE HUA CHEE THE DIVINE ONE, PUTERI ROSMAWINI AND DATO MICHAEL ONG
DEEP FRIED STUFFED OYSTER, FOIE GRAS AND DUCK ROLL STUFFED FISH MAW (BELOW)
DOUBLE BOILED SEAFOOD CONSOMME IN COCONUT
DATIN YONG MAYLENE SINGING 'SHANGHAI BUND THEME SONG
STEWED PORK BELLY WITH LUO HAN GUO WAS SO DELICIOUS I HAD 6!
DATO STEVE DAY INTRODUCING HIS GUESTS DURING 'COMMERCIAL BREAK
FISH FILLET WITH DUET CORN IN CRAB MEAT SAUCE
DATIN SU DAY, DATUK OH AND DATIN OH
STEAMED RED RICE WITH ABALONE AND WAXED MEAT
SWEETS
DATO STEVE DAY CONGRATULATING CHEF TAN TZAAN LIING AND YES, THIS IS THE CORRECT SPELLING! I THINK THE WESTIN KL HIRES STAFF BASED ON THEIR EXOTIC NAMES!
LOONG CAESAR THANKING THE CULINARY TEAM ON BEHALF OF GUESTS
PUTERI ROSMAWINI, DATUK MICHAEL ONG, DATIN MAYLENE, DATO EDDY CHOONG AND DATIN SU DAY
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