Dinner: $25,000 a plate in Bangkok
Fifteen people will pay $25,000 each for themselves and 25 guests to be wined (mostly) and dined in Bangkok, Thailand, a few days before Valentine's Day.
A casion owner from Macau, a Taiwanese hotel owner, execs from some Fortune 500 companiese and other guests from Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia will have dinner on the 65th floor of a restaurant.
10 Japanese guests will NOT be there. They cancelled due to safety concerns after the New Year's Eve bombings.
Six 3-star Michelin chefs from France, Italy and Germany will prepare the 10 course meal. And I thought Michelin made tires.
Each course will be washed down with 1990 Cristal Champagne, a 1985 Romanee Conti, a 1959 Chateau Mouton Rotshchild, a 1967 Chateau d'Yquem and a 1961 Chateau Palmer.
Part of the grocery list: black truffles, foie gras, oysters and live Brittany lobsters from France; caviar from Switzerland; Jerusalem artichokes and white truffles from Rome.
One chef said he will put 100 grams of Perigord truffles ($350) on each plate.
Hotel workers will have their camera cell phones taken away to ensure discretion.
And to think, I wasn't even on the you-can-come-if-you-pay guest list.
Bummer.
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