Kee Hua Chee Live!: MIGF FINE DINING AT L'ALTITUDE AT GENTING GRAND HOTEL IN THE NEW, GLITTERING GENTING CLUB WHICH IS JUST 4 MONTHS OLD!

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I WENT TO GENTING HIGHLANDS WITH HON TIAN HAUR YESTERDAY TO ATTEND THE GALA DINNER AT L'ALTITUDE, THE FLAGSHIP RESTAURANT OF THE NEW GENTING CLUB AT GENTING GRAND HOTEL.

After a multi-million ringgit renovation, the original Genting Hotel is now upgraded again and this time is renamed Genting Grand, the star hotel of the 6 hotels that grace the mountains. Next to is Maxim's Hotel which used to be Highlands Hotel as Genting has purchased the prestigious Maxim's casinos of United Kingdom.

Genting Grand's Genting Club is a private club and the best in Malaysia and possibly the region. It is just 4 months old so it is as new as a virgin.

Located opposite Olive restaurant, Genting Club occupies the former Genting Ballroom which explains the grand, super high ceiling, so high I could barely see the ceiling. A huge bar sits in the centre with a large stage inside so the band and singers perform from an elevated stage. Members sits and sip and savour the best cocktails in the observable landscape as they listen to catchy songs from yesteryears so do not expect heavy metal or house/acid music.

Just behind at one end is L'Altitude restaurant the 5-star, fine dining restaurant exclusive ONLY to Genting Club members and non-members cannot even enter as you need a membership card that resembles a credit card to enter Genting Club. Just swipe your membership card in the box and the burly security guards will allow you to saunter in. Otherwise they will throw you 6,000 feet from Genting Highlands all the way to Klang Valley below. It is that exclusive.

MIGF Malaysia International Gourmet Festival guests were issued temporary cards to enter. The club is designed to resemble a gentleman's club in St James, London. Say you are a highranking British general who has just retired into your country pile in Buckinghamshire and Genting Club would be something like this, filled with classy memorabilia and of course a wine cellar.

I was shown a jeroboam of the finest champagne by Armand de Brignac aka the Ace of Spades champagne produced by Champagne Cattier and not Cartier as some think since it is so highclass and priced beyond the reach of lowclass middle class people let alone peasants.

Never heard of Armand de Brignac? It is OK, only select, well bred, worldly wise and super highclass, high-ranking members of the echelon of highest of all high society have heard of Armand de Brignac champagne.

After all, it was introduced only in 2006! Unlike Dom Perignon and Moet & Chandon enjoyed by Napoleon!

Armand de Brignac champagne is sold in opaque metallic gold bottles with pewter Ace of Spades labels. How elitist and exclusive is that? I have never thrown away an empty bottle of Armand de Brignac champagne! They sell on e-Bay!

It became famous in late 2006 when Jay-Z released his music video 'Show Me What You Got' where he was presented with the distinctive bottle of Armand de Brignac in a silver briefcase. Fans and music lovers were stunned as previously Jay-Z had featured another over-priced champagne Cristal in his videos.

In 2009 Fine Champagne magazine held a blind tasting for 100 top champagnes and guess who emerged top? Yes, Armand de Brignac!

When a joint sells Armand de Brignac, you know you are in good company as a bottle sells in the thousands and a gigantic silver bottle at Genting Club is priced at a heart-stopping, jaw-dropping RM 300,000---same price as a condominium!

Then again, membership at Genting Club is RM 20,000!

ENTRANCE OF NEWLY RENOVATED GENTING GRAND HOTEL AND THE FAMOUS STONE ELEPHANTS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO THE LAKE!

ROSE CEILING

I LOVE THE ROSE CEILING

GRAND LOBBY

THE 1970S MINANGKABAU PORTE CORCHERE REMAINS FOR FENG SHUI REASONS SINCE THIS HISTOROC DESIGN AND ENTRANCE PORCH HAS BROUGHT BILLIONS OF RINGGIT FOR GENTING SO WHY MEDDLE WITH WHAT IS GOOD?

MAXIMS HOTEL

HON TIAN HAUR AND KEE HUA CHEE IN RM 25,000 FUR BY FURRARI OF NEW YORK

THINK MINK!

RICHARD BEH AND SANNY CHEANG, DATIN SAMMIE SAM AND DATO LIM WERN SIANG

ELISA KWOK AND KEVIN LAM

HOSTS WITH MOST---DATO STEVE DAY AND EDWARD HOLLOWAY SENIOR VP OF HOTEL OPERATIONS OF RESORTS WORLD GENTING

EVA MOHD AND KEVIN MIRANDA

KEVIN MIRANDA, KEE HUA CHEE IN MINK FROM FURRARI OF NEW YORK AND EVA MOHD OF CWA

KEVIN MIRANDA, KEE HUA CHEE AND EVA MOHD

UWE AHRENS OF MELEWAR INDUSTRIAL GROUP AND WIFE ANDREA

DATO ROBERT TEO OF RSM RKT GROUP AND WIFE ANITA

COSY BAR IN LOUNGE

WHAT IS JAMES BRANCH DOING INSIDE THE BAR, I WONDER. IS HE MOONLIGHTING AS BAR TENDER TO MAKE ENDS MEET IN THESE DARK DAYS?

JEREMY OLIVER AND UWE AHRENS

JEREMY OLIVER AND ELIANE AND NOT ELAINE AS SHE SPECIFICALLY POINTS OUT AT GREAT PAINS SO THE SPELLING COULD PENETRATE MY BRAINS

ELAINE, I MEAN ELIANE OLIVER, KEE HUA CHEE IN MINK AS HE PAID ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF DEAD MINK TAILS AND BLONDIE ANDREA

DATO STEVE DAY OF MIGF AND FRIENDS DISCUSSING THE FAB WINES IN THE CELLAR

THE BOTTLE AT RIGHT COSTS RM 52,000 FOR GENTING CLUB MEMBERS AS IT SELLS FOR RM 62,000 OUTSIDE

EDWARD HALLOWAY POINTS OUT THE MERITS OF GENTING CLUB'S CELLAR

HON TIAN HAUR NEXT TO THE RM 300,000 BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE

THIS BOTTLE COSTS RM 300,000!

30 LITRES FOR RM 300,000 SO PHONE YOUR FRIENDS OVER!

HON TIAN HAUR IN GENTING CLUB WHERE MEMBERSHIP COSTS RM 20,000

KEE HUA CHEE'S MINK COSTS RM 25,000

JAMES BRANCH

HON TIAN HAUR AND TAN HONG LING, DIRECTOR OF GENTING CLUB

JAMES BRANCH AND KEVIN PEDLEY WHO NEVER EVER SUFFERS FROM A BAD HAIR DAY

KEVIN MIRANDA, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF GENTING CLUB AND HON TIAN HAUR INSIDE THE CELLAR

KEVIN MIRANDA, DEVAN AND HON TIAN HAUR

DATO ROBERT TEO, JEREMY OLIVER AND EDWARD HALLOWAY

DATO ROBERT TEO, JEREMY OLIVER AND EDWARD HOLLOWAY OF RESORTS WORLD GENTING

DATO ROBERT TEO, JEREMY OLIVER AND EDWARD HALLOWAY OF RESORTS WORLD

GRACE KEY, DATIN SU DAY AND KEY SOON YUE OF PORSCHE CLUB

GRACE KEY, DATIN SU DAY AND PRESIDENT OF PORSCHE CLUB KEY SOON YUE

KEE HUA CHEE IN FURRARI OF NEW YORK, GRACE KEY, DATIN SU DAY AND KEY SOON YUE

KEE 'THINK MINK' HUA'THINK PINK'CHEE, GRACE KEY, DATIN SU DAY AND PRESIDENT OF PORSCHE CLUB MALAYSIA KEY SOON YUE

OUR TABLE BEING READIED

WINE CELLAR

KEE HUA CHEE AND HON TIAN HAUR

KEE HUA CHEE LOOKING LIKE A TRILLION BUCKS AND HON TIAN HAUR

KEE HUA CHEE AND IRENE NURFAIRENE OF RESORTS WORLD GENTING WHO LOOKED AFTER ME AND HON ADMIRABLY

HON TIAN HAUR, IRENE NURFAIRENE AND KEE HUA CHEE

DATO STEVE DAY WELCOMING US IN GENTING CLUB. HE JUST PAID RM 20,000 TO BE A MEMBER!

ELIANE OLIVER SCRATCHES HER HEAD AS SHE PONDERS ABOUT SIGNING UP AS MEMBER

DATO STEVE DAY IS SO HOT FLAMES BURST OUT BEHIND HIM

THE CULINARY TEAM OF L'ALTITUDE

EDWARD HALLOWAY INTRODUCES HIS FOODIE TEAM

MAIN BAR IN GENTING CLUB

CHEF ERIC LEE MUN CHUN

RM 498 ALL INCLUSIVE PER PERSON AT IMPERIAL RAMA

OUR TABLE

I LOVE THE WIRE COMING OUT FROM THE DARLING DOGGIE'S ASSHOLE

NOW DATINS BUT SHOULD BE DATOS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT---DATIN SU DAY AND DATIN WINNIE LOO

THESE 2 LADIES SHOULD BE DATOS AND NOT DATINS SINCE EVERY SEX TEMPTRESS MARRYING THEIR HUSBANDS WOULD AUTOMATICALLY BE THE NEW DATIN AS THEY ARE DUMPED BY THE ROADSIDE IN POURING RAIN