Kee Hua Chee Live!: MIGF MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL GOURMET FESTIVAL 2013---KELANTAN DELIGHTS IS BEST RESTAURANT IN OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE!

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OK SO SOME GOURMETS ARE UP IN ARMS WHEN I SAY KELANTAN DELIGHTS IS BEST RESTAURANT IN OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE AND ACCUSE ME OF BEING BIASED SINCE I AM FROM KELANTAN SO WILL BLINDLY SUPPORT A KELANTANESE RESTAURANT AS KELANTANESE ARE FAMOUS FOR STICKING WITH EACH OTHER THROUGH THICK AND THIN WHEN OUTSIDE THE STATE!

Of course it is UNIVERSALLY accepted I, Kee Hua Chee is the ORIGINAL and ULTIMATE Kelantan Delight! A living one at that!

THE MIGF SPECIAL MENU OF 8 COURSE, SUPERLATIVE KELANTAN CUISINE COSTS A MERE RM 99, PRACTICALLY A GIVEAWAY! SO BOOK NOW; 012 602 7845

THERE ARE 2 KELANTAN DELIGHTS RESTAURANTS---WISMA CONSPLANT NEXT TO SUBANG PARADE AND KL SENTRAL.

But I challenge you to eat the nasi dagang and nasi kerabu and akok dessert and prove me wrong!

OK OK, so Kelantan Delights may not be the best in and out of this planet but is the best Kelantanese restaurant in the universe! There, satisfied?

I should know as I am a Kelantanese and grew up on good Kelantan food which explains how I became a super genius of divine stock.

So when I say Kelantan Delights is world class and Kelantan class, you can bet your bottom dollar it is true as I speak and write the gospel truth.

Kelantan Delights is owned by Sabri Rahman, wife Wati (who is from Perak but we shall not hold it against her since if she could choose, she would have wanted to be born a Kelantanese like all right minded people), daughter Amanda, son-in-law Safi Akhtar and family friend Glavinder Singh.

By a charming coincidence the evening was the eve of Datin Su Day's 45th or maybe 50th birthday! Sabri Rahman ordered a special cake for the birthday girl to blow so it was all very jolly.

Even more astonishing, the very same night was also the birthday of Saify Akhtar, the managing director of Kelantan Delights and son-in-law of Sabri Rahman! Saify is a Singaporean and so is Glanvinder but they had the good sense, brains, foresight and talent to migrate to Malaysia and KL is now their home.

Anyway, I cannot recover from this coincidence! Two MDs sharing the same birth date though I believe Saify and Datin Su do not share the same year as apparently one is older than the other somewhat.

KELANTAN DELIGHTS COMMANDS POLE POSITION AT WISMA CONSPLANT IN SUBANG JAYA NEXT TO SUBANG PARADE

REALLY LOOKS MAGNIFICENT AND WORTHY OF ROYAL KELANTANESE CUISINE

WENDY OO, KUAH KOCK HENG, KEE HUA CHEE AND HOST WITH MOST DATUK SABRI RAHMAN THOUGH HIS CARD DOES NOT MENTION HIS DATUKSHIP, THIS MODEST MAN!

DATO STEVE DAY THE ORGANISER AND FOUNDER OF MIGF

SABRI RAHMAN AND DATO STEVE DAY

AKIRA KIKUCHI THE OWNER REPRESENTATIVE OF HILTON, DATO STEVE DAY AND DATIN SU DAY

DATIN WATI, DATIN SERI JEANETTE TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN, TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN THE CHAIRMAN OF VISION FOUR, DATO JESSIE YOW OF SINAR INTIBARI AND DATO DR SALIM CASSIM OF EMBEDDED WIRELESS LABS

DATIN WATI, DATIN SERI MANEESAH TUNKU ISKANDAR, YM TUNKUN ISKANDAR AND SABRI RAHMAN

TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN, TUNKU ISKANDAR TUNKU ABDULLAH, DATIN SERI JEANETTE TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN AND DATIN SERI MANEESAH TUNKU ISKANDAR

SABRI RAHMAN, SYED MUDZHAR SYED ALI OF LAND ROVER, LOOI KIEN LEONG AND LOOI CHUNG KEAT OF 1001 TECHNOLOGIES WHICH IS A CLEVER NAME AS 1001 AND LOOI LOOK ALIKE AND 1001 IS A BINARY NUMBER EQUALS TO 9 WHICH IS A LUCKY NUMBER!

NISHDEV SINGH OF LAND ROVER AND TAN SRI DATO MICHAEL O.K YEOH THE CEO OF ASLI ASIAN STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

AKIRA KIKUCHI AND DATO JESSIE YOW

AMANDA SABRI AND HUBBY SAIFY AKHTAR

AMANDA IS THE DAUGHTER OF SABRI RAHMAN WHO OWNS KELANTAN DELIGHTS AND SAIFY AKHTAR IS AMANDA'S HUBBY. BOTH OWN SHARES IN KELANTAN DELIGHTS OF 20% EACH WHILE GLAVINDER SINGH OWNS ANOTHER 20%

DATO STEVE DAY OF MIGF WELCOMING HIS GUESTS

GROUP PHOTO!

GLAVINDER SINGH THE SALES DIRECTOR OF KELANTAN DELIGHTS, WENDY OO AND IRENE CHEAH

GLAVINDER, WENDY AND IRENE

SAIFY AKHTAR, DATO STEVE DAY, CHEF MUSLIM SADLI AND AMANDA SABRI

GLAVINDER SINGH, SAIFY AKHTAR, CHEF MUSLIM SADLI, AMANDA SABRI AND DATO STEVE DAY

APPETISERS; SIRIH DAUN KADOK, KERABU SOO HOON TIGER PRAWN AND KERABU PAUH MUDA

I LOVE THIS SOUP AND HAD A SECOND, BIGGER HELPING!

SUP KRIM IKAN PARANG OR LAKSUM WHICH IS LIKE LAKSA BUT BETTER SINCE IT IS FROM KELANTAN

AMANDA SABRI EXPLAINING EACH DISH. SHE LIVED IN LONDON FOR 10 YEARS AND HAS A COTTAGE IN THE COTSWOLDS, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE IMAGINABLE AND AS LOVELY AS LAKE DISTRICT

NASI KERABU AND AYAM PERCIK IS THE MAIN COURSE AND I THOUGHT I HAD DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN AS IT WAS SO DELICIOUS AND TRANSPORTED ME BACK TO KOTA BARU TO MY CHILDHOOD DAYS GROWING UP SO HAPPY AND SAFE IN KELANTAN WHERE I INTEND TO SPEND MY DYING DAYS AND BE BURIED THERE

THE BLUE COLOUR OF THE RICE COMES FROM THE BLUE CLITORIA FLOWERS GROWN LOCALLY SO THE RICE IS NOT DYED ARTIFICIALLY. AND YES, THE CLITORIA FLOWER RESEMBLES THE CLITORIS HENCE THE NAME! CHIBAI FLOWERS! I LOVE IT! AND THE PETALS STAIN THE RICE BLUE AS IN BLUE MOVIES! WHAT A HAPPY COINCIDENCE!
IN MALAY, THE FLOWERS ARE CALLED BUNGA TALANG WHICH IS NOT PROVOCATIVE LIKE CLITORIA FLOWERS SINCE THE PETALS LOOK LIKE YOUR VAGINA!

THUMBS UP TO KELANTAN DELIGHTS

LOOI CHUNG KEAT, AMANDA, SAIFY AKHTAR AND GLAVINDER SINGH WHO ARE CHILDHOOD FRIENDS SINCE 10!

TUNKU ISKANDAR CHECKS OUT THE RICE PLATTER

SAIFY AKHTAR DOLES OUT KELANTANESE DELIGHTS TO HIS GUESTS

THIS WAS NOT ON LAST NIGHT'S MIGF SPECIAL MENU BUT I ASKED FOR THIS NASI DAGANG DISH WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE THE BEST OUTSIDE KELANTAN AND MAY ALSO BE THE BEST OUTSIDE KELANTAN, COME TO THINK OF IT

THE NASI DAGANG WAS SO DELICIOUS AND DELIGHTFUL I ORDERED A TAKEAWAY AS WELL. AFTER ALL, NASI DAGANG MEANS ' BUSINESS RICE' AND CAN KEEP LONGER THAN NORMAL RICE AS IN OLDEN DAYS, THE KELANTANESE TRADERS WOULD BRING NASI DAGANG WITH THEM ON LENGTHY JOURNEYS TO TRADE WHILE FISHERMEN AND FARMERS WOULD BRING THIS SPECIAL RICE TO WORK AS IT WOULD NOT TURN STALE OR SMELLY EASILY!

IKAN SIAKAP ASAM LINTANG IS SWEETISH AND SOURISH!

FROM BOTTOM LEFT; SAMBAL UDANG PETAI, KERABU PUCUK PAKU, TELUR DADAR AND BEEF PAHA KERUTUK

GULAI KAWAH IS A TRADITIONAL KELANTAN DISH COOKED IN A HUGE WOK OR KAWAH AND SIMMERED FOR HOURS WITH HERBS AND SPICES AND EATEN WITH ROTI OR BREAD

DESSERTS! AKOK AT LEFT IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER TASTED AND THAT IS SAYING A LOT AS i LOVE AKOK (NOT SPELLED AS ACOCK)

THE DELICACY ON SPOON IS TAHI ITIK OR DUCK SHIT AND YES, THIS IS THE ACTUAL NAME! NOT THE MOST APPETISING OF NAMES BUT WHAT TO DO?

THE GOLDEN NOODLES ARE CALLED JALA EMAS OR GOLDEN FISH NETS AND THE LAST IS BUAH TANJUNG

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DATIN SU DAY! OUR DINNER ON 7 OCTOBER IS THE EVE OF DATIN SU DAY'S BIRTHDAY! SO A KELANTANESE VERSION OF A BIRTHDAY CAKE WAS ROLLED OUT IN HONOUR OF THE BIRTHDAY GIRL!

1 CANDLE SUFFICES

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DATIN SU DAY!

WHAT IS SABRI RAHMAN TRYING TO DO WITH DATIN SU DAY'S CAKE?

IS THE CAKE MOVING OR WHAT AS THIS TRIO ARE STARING SO INTENTLY

EACH COLOURED JELLY REPRESENTS LUCK!

DATIN SU DAY'S LIFE WILL BE EVEN SWEETER WITH THIS THICK CARAMEL!

I GOT MY JUST DESSERTS TOO

THIS IS PISANG BAKAR WITH SANTAN CREAM WHICH REMINDS ME OF....OH NEVER MIND...THIS IS A FAMILY BLOG!

THE CULINARY TEAM AND SERVICE STAFF OF KELANTAN DELIGHTS!

A GREAT JOB, GUYS!

DATO STEVE DAY THANKS THE TEAM OF KELANTAN DELIGHTS

TUNKU ISKANDAR THANKS THE TEAM ON BEHALF OF THE GUESTS

TUNKU ISKANDAR SAYS HE WAS CHATTING WITH DATIN MANEESAH IN THE CAR HOW KELANTANESE FINE DINING WOULD BE PRESENTED AND AM IMPRESSED WITH BOTH FOOD AND PRESENTATION PLUS HIGH LEVEL OF SERVICE!

THANKS, GUYS

TUNKU ISKANDAR CONGRATULATES THE TEAM OF KELANTAN DELIGHTS

BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO EVERYONE!

DATO STEVE DAY THEN ASKS TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN FOR HIS COMMENTS

SAYS TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN, "I WAS WONDERING IS BUDU (FISH SAUCE) WOULD BE SERVED AS THIS WOULD PROVE THE AUTHENTICITY OF KELANTAN DELIGHTS AND IT WAS! THIS RESTAURANT IS DEFINITELY AUTHENTIC!" YEAH TO THAT!