MIGF 2014 AT NEO TAMARIND PART 1---DATO STEVE DAY AND DATIN SU DAY HOST DINNER FOR 20 GUESTS AT NEO TAMARIND ON JALAN SULTAN ISMAIL

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DATO STEVE DAY AND DATIN SU WAI FUN NEE DAY CONTINUE TO DO THEIR CSR (CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY) BY ORGANISING THE ANNUAL MIGF (MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL GOURMET FESTIVAL) .

THIS MONTH LONG FOOD FEST IS INTO ITS 14TH YEAR AND IS EAGERLY AWAITED BY LOCALS AND FOODIES WHO FLY IN FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE EVERY SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER AS MIGF IS USUALLY HELD AROUND THIS PERIOD.

THIS POWER COUPLE HOSTED DINNER AT NEO TAMARIND FOR 20 GUESTS LAST NIGHT. THE OWNERS OF NEO TAMARIND, FREDERICO AND HIS POLE-DANCING WIFE MAPLE (YES SHE DOES POLE DANCING AND TEACHES IT TOO SO DON'T THINK SHE WORKS IN PATPONG OK) WAS CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY IN SINGAPORE WHERE THEY ALSO RUN SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES. OBVIOUSLY FREDERICO PREFERRED THE SINGAPOREANS TO US AND I HOPE HE IS READING THIS IN MORTIFICATION AND CRINGING AND WILL THROW A LAVISH BELATED BIRTHDAY PARTY IN KUALA LUMPUR TO MAKE UP FOR THIS FIASCO!

WHERE WAS I?

OH, THE DINNER AT NEO TAMARIND WHICH IS LOCATED ON A HILLOCK SOME 60 FEET ABOVE JALAN SULTAN ISMAIL SO IT FEELS LIKE A RESORT. MELIUM GROUO HELD THEIR FABULOUS 'STYLE ROCKS' PARTY HERE AEONS AGO AND I THINK IT IS TIME FOR A REPEAT FEAT!

NEO TAMARIND IS ALSO JOININGG MIGF AFTER A HIATUS OF 3 YEARS AND THE FOOD STANDARD REMAINS INTACT.

HERE IS THE MENU WE GORGED ON;

NEO TAMARIND MIGF FESTIVAL MENU---RM 350 NETT WITH 4 GLASSES OF PAIRED WINES AND RM 290 NETT WITH NO WINE.

Canapes

Blow-torched tuna with tom yum cream, beef tartar with strawberry
and garlic chip and chicken liver terrine tart
(Cape Mentelle, Sauvignon Semillon Margaret River – Australia)

Amuse Bouche
Blow-torched watermelon, Alaskan crab and dried bonito flakes

Appetisers

Sea urchin shooter, uni with cold soba noodle and uni sushi (Kaesler, Old Vine Semillon, Barossa Valley – Australia)

Fresh tomato salad with ginger flower vinegar, smoked duck salad and grilled mushroom with truffle oil

 The soup comes looking very demure yet fearsome like this

 The entire red chilli (capsicum) is then lifted! You can eat the capsicum if you wish!

Soup
Red capsicum bisque served with salmon ravioli

Palate Cleanser

Spicy tomato shooter

Main Course

 Roast tiger prawn and snowfish

 Red Snapper

Pan roasted red snapper with pineapple salsa, grilled snow fish with strawberry balsamic and roasted tiger prawn with gorgonzola polenta
(Babich, Pinot Noir, Marlborough – New Zealand)

Pan roasted duck with chili sauce, duck confit with couscous & kumquat and pan seared foie gras with mango miso

Braised beef cheek with scallion oil, grilled bone marrow in porcini risotto and pan seared waygu beef (MB7) with beef jus & garlic bulb
(Terrazas, Malbec, Reserva, Mendoza – Argentina)

Dessert
Spicy churros, mint chocolate truffle, strawberry cheese cake

Drink---chilli sake
**************************************THE COCKTAIL HOUR FROM 6.30PM TO 8 PM

DATIN SU DAY AND DATO STEVE DAY

LOOK AT THE KILLER CHILLI CHOCOLATE COCKTAIL CONCOCTED BY NEO TAMARIND TO GO WITH THIS YEAR'S THEME 'RED HOT CHEFS'! MANY DISHES IN NEO TAMARIND MIGF FESTIVAL MENU FEATURES CHILLIS IN VARIOUS FORMS OR THE  COLOUR RED!

DIRK LUBBERT AND MELINDA LOOI WHO IS 3 MONTHS PREGNANT! BABY GIRL DUE IN FEBRUARY 2015!

DIRK AND MELINDA DID NOT PLAN FOR THEIR 4TH BABY AS I TOLD THEM TO KEEP A POODLE INSTEAD BUT DIRK RECYCLED CONDOM WHICH LEAKED AND SO MELINDA WAS IMPREGNATED WITH MORE GERMAN GENES AND SPERMA! OMIGOD!

KEE HUA CHEE IN VERSACE AND UWE AHRENS 

SOFIA CLINGS TO HER HUSBAND SUHENDRAN SOCKANATHAN KNOWN AS SOCKS AND EVEN MORE KNOWN AS TOP LAWYER

SOFIA AND SOCKS

YOHAN RAJ AND LIM WEI LING

YOHAN RAJ AND LIM WEI LING

SOORIA AND JEFFREY PERERA

SOORIA AND JEFFREY PERERA

ALI WITH TAMARIND OFFERINGS

MY KILLER CHOCOLATE CHILLI COCKTAIL! PACKED A PUNCH

DATO DR GHANDHIRAJ SOMASUNDRAM AND DATIN DANIELLA

DATO DR GHANDIRAJ SOMASUNDRAM AND DATIN DANIELLA

THE TABLE ALL DECORATED AND LAID FOR GUESTS OF DATO STEVE DAY AND DATIN SU DAY

ALASTAIR CRAWFORD AND SOFIA RAHMAN

SUHENDRAN SOCKANATHAN, KEE HUA CHEE, ALASTAIR CRAWFORD AND SOFIA RAHMAN

SOCKS, KEE, ALASTAIR AND SOFIA

THE FLAME TOWERS WERE ERECTED IN HONOUR OF MIGF'S THEME FOR 2014---'REDHOT CHEFS'

DATO FARAH KHAN AND KARIM

DATO FARAH KHAN AND KARIM---LOVE HER FROCK MADE OF NEOPRENE!

DATO FARAH KHAN AND DATO STEVE DAY

DATO FARAH KHAN AND DATO STEVE DAY

YAM TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN TUNKU BESAR BURHANUDDIN WITH 3 LOVELY LADIES

LIM WEI LING, YAM TUNKU SHAHABUDDIN, SOFIA RAHMAN AND DATIN DANIELLA

LOVE THE UNIFORMS OF  NEO TAMARIND, SO DE COOL

POOL

WINE CELLAR

FOYER OVERLOOKING OPEN PLAN KITCHEN

SEE WHAT'S COOKING!

LOUNGE

VIP ROOM

DRAMATIC

COOL

DRAMATIC

IMPRESSIVE CHANDELIER

GREAT FOR PRIVATE, SMALL GATHERING

DATO STEVE DAY THE FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF MIGF, MARVIN BOSVELD THE SPECIAL PROJECT MANAGER OF NEO TAMARIND AND CHEF SOMBAT KOKASEMKUL

DATO STEVE DAY, MARVIN BOSVELD AND CHEF DE CUISINE SOMBAT KOKASEMKUL

DATO STEVE DAY WELCOMING GUESTS

AND INTRODUCING THE TOP GUNS OF NEO TAMARIND 

GUESTS

GUESTS

GUESTS

TERRIFIC TRIO

MARVIN INTRODUCING CHEF SOMBAT

COOL

THIS IS THE MAN COOKING FOR YOU TONIGHT!

GROUP PIX FOR POSTERITY

BIG SMILE

YAHOO

CHEERS FOR MIGF 2014 AT NEO TAMARIND

YO

HI FOLKS

MELINDA LOOI TOP FASHION DESIGNERS AND KEE HUA CHEE, TOP FASHIONISTA

MELINDA LOOI AND KEE HUA CHEE

THE FIRST COURSE IS SERVED!

BLOW TORCHED TUNA, BEEF TARTAR AND CHICKEN LIVER TERRINE TART

SECOND COURSE

CHEF SOMBAT EXPLAINING EACH DISH

CHEF SOMBAT

BLOW TORCHED WATER MELON, ALASKAN CRAB AND BONITO FLAKES

AMUSE BOUCHE

AMUSE BOUCHE

APPETISER---SEA URCHIN SHOOTER, UNI WITH COLD SOBA NOODLE AND UNI SUSHI

THE PLASTIC NEEDLE WAS FOR US TO INJECT THE SAUCE ONTO THE SUSHI!

YUMMY

EXQUISITE

APPETISER

STYLISHLY PRESENTED APPETISER

SMOKED DUCK SALAD, TOMATO SALAD AND GRILLED MUSHROOM WITH TRUFFLE OIL

DELICIOUS

YUMMY

THIS IS THE SOUP, BELIEVE IT OR ELSE!

WHERE IS THE SOUP?

THE CAPSICUM IS SLOWLY LIFTED...

TO REVEAL THE RED CAPSICUM BISQUE WITH SALMON RAVIOLI!

MY SOUP! AND YES, YOU EAT THE CAPSICUM IF YOU LIKE!

SOUP OF THE NIGHT

A REAL CAPSICUM OR CHILLI IS USED

THE SOUP IS A COUP DE GRACE!

DONE!

DRANK!

REST ROOM

SLEEK

THE GREAT OUTDOORS!

ENTRANCE

ENTRANCE

BUDDHA STATUE

ELEGANT

SERENE