Guinness

Guinness Chinese New Year Media Gathering

by Tim Chew
Comments 0

[Event]

Poon Choi, Guinness and Axian (Jason Yeoh)

Yes with those three it was going to be a night of good food, drinks and entertainment! Headed over to Bangsar Shopping Centre on 30 January with Malaysia’s Hottest Bloggers Valerie and Karen for the Guinness Chinese New Year Media Gathering at the Grand Imperial Restaurant. The restaurant was tucked away in a corner of the old wing (same wing as twentyone Tables & Terrace) and it took us a while to find it but eventually we did.

To start off the night, loads of Guinness draught of course before we were ushered to the tables for dinner. Most of the guests were eagerly anticipating the ‘star’ of the ‘Guinness Feast of Abundance’ which was to be the Golden Poon Choi which was chosen to highlight three (3) characteristics of Guinness – more taste, more look and more soul.

Exactly how do they match up?

More taste – Guinness has more bold flavours than most other beers while the Poon Choi is totally packed with flavours from its quality and bountiful ingredients.

More look – Notice how a pint of Guinness draught is served to you with a beautiful head that’s the product of a two (2) part pour? Well the Poon Choi also comes with a stunning presentation with the abalone, prawns, scallops and sea cucumbers right on top of the dish.

More soul – Guinness has been brewed for over 250 years and the brew masters take immense care to ensure that the product which you get is of the highest standards. In olden times, the Poon Choi takes up to three (3) days to prepare starting with the gathering of the ingredients to the separate cooking of the ingredients to the final assembly.

550362_488150141231458_1400129137_n
Always a welcome sight
398100_488149877898151_1544262711_n
Axian aka Jason Yeoh of Axian’s Food Adventures was the host for the evening
76380_488149771231495_1677864244_n
Guinness actually goes pretty well with certain types of food bringing out the depth and intensifying the flavours of the dish. You can even use it to make sauces or add it to meat dishes such as Beef & Guinness stew, steak pie or even brownies!
221799_488150024564803_1586421599_n
MHB’s Karen Kho and Valerie Chua
530623_488149931231479_2035508163_n
Fresh Salmon Yee Sang! This was one of the best that I had and I think I’m gonna buy one for my family’s reunion dinner on the eve of CNY.
75873_488150057898133_977236629_n
Jason finally unveiled the ‘Golden Poon Choi’ after giving us a brief history on it. The dish was modified in Guiness’s ‘Made of More’ fashion with the inclusion of an edible gold pork meatball (right at the centre)
310055_488150071231465_2042216913_n
The Poon Choi was loaded with abalone (again! woo hoo!), scallops, prawns, black moss, dried oysters (I’m not a really big fan of these) and a whole bunch of other stuff such as roast duck, roast chicken, mushrooms, veges, etc. etc.
521604_488150087898130_1156762343_n
My table’s Poon Choi was done justice as we pretty much cleaned up 90% of it! Not bad considering there were only 2 guys besides myself with the rest ladies. First thing to go was of course the abalone hahaha!
550299_488150154564790_285141386_n
After stuffing ourselves with the Poon Choi we washed it down with loads of Guinness draught and the dessert which was a ‘Chilled Mountain Snow Seed with Lily Bulb’
Pan Fried Nian Gao and Baked Lotus Paste Pastries
Pan Fried Nian Gao and Baked Lotus Paste Pastries
482929_488150224564783_2130440458_n
MHB’s Esther, Valerie and Karen together with our friend Elaine from Lowyatt.net took the opportunity to take a pic with Jason. He later made a remark about Valerie’s height.
Me with the girls
Me with the girls

.

More info at https://www.facebook.com/guinnessmalaysia

More photos at https://www.facebook.com/myhotbloggers

Subscribe to my public updates at https://www.facebook.com/timchewkc

More content on my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/timchew1311

.

538990_488149797898159_1719609024_n

0 comments on “Guinness Chinese New Year Media Gathering”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: