Tuesday, October 15, 2013

NILOU FOLCO CELEBRATES HER BIRTHDAY AT HER NEW RESTAURANT LA SCALA IN KL

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NILOU FOLCO THREW HER BIRTHDAY PARTY ON 18 OCTOBER 2013 AT LA SCALA, KL'S LATEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT A STONE'S THROW FROM KLCC. IT WAS IL LIDO PREVIOUSLY BEFORE NILOU AND HER HUSBAND LUCA DI FOLCO (THE FORMER ITALIAN AMBASSADOR) TOOK OVER AND RENAMED IT LA SCALA.

WE HAD COCKTAILS ON THE TERRACE AND BIRTHDAY CAKE CUTTING CEREMONY BEFORE A GRAND FORMAL DINNER DOWNSTAIRS. BY COINCIDENCE IT WAS ALSO THE BIRTHDAY OF DATIN SU DAY, WIFE OF DATO STEVE DAY AND WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE THIS COUPLE FOR ORGANISING MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL GOURMET FESTIVAL FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS!

Below is the speech by Birthday Girl Nilou who by the way is American of exotic, aristocratic Persian stock but now an Italian through and through!

Dear Tunku Naquiyuddin and Tunku Nurul Hayati, Tunku Dara Tunky Naquiah and TunkuMudzaffar, Tunku Tan Sri Tg Meriam Sultan Ahmad Shah and Dato Seri Ozeir , Excellencies, Tan Sris,  Puan Sris and dearest  friends.

 It a pleasure to have all of you here tonight to celebrate this auspicious night.
Oct 18 and a new a concept , La SCALA !!!!


Marco Polo traveled thousand of miles around the world and do you know what he took back from China?  THE PASTA! I am following his footsteps and bringing the real PASTA to KL.

I took over il lido a few weeks ago ,turned it around , brought chefs ,managers ,wine connoisseurs , pasta machines and all ingredients direct  from Italy !!!!

As most of you might know il lido was the only fine italian restaurabt in kl and now its become better  the finest !!!!

My goal is to bring the REAL Italian food hereto kl  with fresh pastas  made  DAILY  on the spot

Downstairs is fine dinning and upstairs I am creating a cool pleasant ,outdoor concept( al fresco ) so you can enjoy real Italian snacks all day and at night the music goes on .....

La SCALA is the place to have very exclusive events for the discriminating taste .
All events will be customized for You !! And suite your taste with an Italian touch to it

Please remember this is a private function and the doors are not open yet open to the public. The chef is in the kitchen for the first time ,  My olive trees are on the way in planter boxes and lots more on the way from Italy


I WOULD LIKE TO THANK A FEW PEOPLE

First each and everyone of you for being here tonight . If it wasn't for you all Folco myself and Brando wouldn't be in in Malaysia !!!


THE CHEF :   Lucio Russo , From Naples, he has worked in England with Gordon Ramsey , France ,Brussels and of course Italy at the famous Hustler hotel from which we managed to bring him here to bring his expertise to KL to please your palates


Mr Sante Losio is also Italian comes from a background of 17 generation vineyards and wine business. He grew up on their own vineyard and was fed wine instead of milk to grow and as you see the wine  did well!!!!     His bringing his expertise and the most amazing wines  to please your lips .  We are very happy to have him on board


Mr Oscar Clemente is  another Italian ,  (what am I going to do with all these Italians )a restauranteur,   a celebrity chef ,which has been working between Italy, New York and Miami and  is here to take care of  all of us.  We are very lucky to have him here with us

And of coarse I need to thank Saurab , which many of you might know already ,  I wouldn't be able to do this with out you

Also everyone else who helped put this together  specially.  GPL. Which have been putting up with everything


MY PARENTS ..Thanks DAD for the name LA SCALA. and  MOM that put up with all my headaches and complains

Of course    Brando,  my one and only  , which I have neglected for the past two weeks
Babe I'm doing this for u and I'm glad you r already organizing your Xmas party I'm sure this year Santa can park his sleigh and reindeers  on the TERAZA DE LA SCALA !!!

Last but not least FOLCO ,  my husband,  who Is  THE REAL ITALIAN   Without him I wouldn't be ITALIAN !!!!!!!

DARLING , WE AND ALL OF MALAYSIA THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME. ITALIAN!

 DR HARJIT KAUR, DR SUMITHRA AND MEERA SHEN

 EDWARD HOLLOWAY AND MARCO DAVI
 BIRTHDAY GIRL NILOU FOLCO, MRS AND MR ZAHID

 HE FOLCO DE LUCA, BRANDO, NILOU, PRINCESS DR BECKY LEOGARDO AND MICHAEL MANTZ
 STUNNING BACKDROP

 STEFANO ALBERTO CANAVESIA, ELENA AND ANDREA AMBRA
 MALAR, DATO DR PRAKASH RAO, ANDREW ABISHEGAM, CHRIS ABISHEGAM AND DATO DR DEVAN PILLAY

 NILOU, FERDERICO ASARO AND MAPLE LOO
 FEDERICO ASARO AND MAPLE LOO

 SAURAB BASNAT AND OSCAR CLEMENTE

 NILOU AND MIKE WITH DELICIOUS CANAPES
 MIKE WITH LA SCALA CANAPES
 MIKE WITH CANAPES
 DATIN PAULENE AND TUNKU MU'TAMIR

 PRINCESS DR BECKY LEOGARDO AND MICHAEL MANTZ
 TAN SRI OTHMAN MARICAN AND PUAN SRI SYLVIA OTHMAN
 TAN SRI OTHMAN MARICAN AND PUAN SRI SYKVIA MARICAN
 PUAN SRI SYLVIA'S CLEAVAGE IS AMAZING
 TAN SRI OTHMAN MARICAN, PUAN SRI SYLVIA, PRINCESS DR BECKY LEOGARDO AND MICHAEL MANTZ

 DELIGHTFUL SNACKS
 I LOVE BELLINIS
 YAM TUNKU LAKSAMANA TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN TUANKY JAAFAR AND STEFANO ALBERTO CANAVESIO THE FORMER ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO MALAYSIA
 HE FOLCO DE LUCA THE PREVIOUS ITALIAN AMBASSADOR AND TUNKU NAQUIYUDDIN TUANKU JAAFAR
 JOHNNY MAK, TUNKU NONG SORAYA AND TUNKU NURUL HAYATI
 JOHNNY MAK, TUNKU NONG SORAYA AND TUNKU NURUL HAYATI
 DATIN JOANNA AND DATO MARCO LOW
 DATIN JOANNA AND DATO MARCO LOW
 TAN SRI OTHMAN MARICAN, MAPLE LOO, THE SEXIEST PUAN SRI IN MALAYSIA PUAN SRI SLYVIA, TUNKY NAQUIYUDDIN TUANKU JAAFAR AND FEDERICO ASARO

 DATIN PAT INDOT, NAZI OSMAN AND DATIN SERI PAULENE TUNKU MU'TAMIR
 CHARLIE'S ANGELS
 ELENA, STEFANO ALBERTO CANAVESIO, DATUK SERI MOHAMED OZIER, YAM TUNKUN PUTERI SERI LELA WANGSA PAHANG TUNKU TAN SRI MERIAM SULTAN AHMAD SHAH AND HE LUCA DE FOLCO

 YAM TUNKU DARA TUNKU TAN SRI NAQUIAH TUANKU JAAFR, YM TUNKU MUDZAFFAR, YAM TEUNKU ARIF BENDAHARA PAHANG TUNKU IBRAHIM SULTAN ABU BAKAR AND DATO DR DEVAN PILLAY

 CHE ENGKU PUAN SRI ROZEETA AND JEREMY SMEETON
 HOT COUPLE


 FOLCO DE LUCA, NILOU, DATO FARAH KHAN AND KARIM

 DATIN SU DAY AND DATO FARAH KHAN
 BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR NILOU
 BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR DATIN SU DAY
 CHRIS ABISHEGAM, SEXY PUAN SRI SYLVIA, TAN SRI OTHMAN MARICAN AND DATO FARAH KHAN

 BIRTHDAY SPEECH BY NILOU FOLCO



























 NILOU BLOWS HER CAKE




 DATIN SU DAY BLOWS HERS
 2 BIRTHDAY GIRLS DATIN SU DAY AND NILOU

 K.C KOK AND JOJO KOK

 PRINCESS DR BECKY LEOGARDO AND MICHAEL MANTZ
 PUAN SRI DATIN SRI PERNILLE GOH AND TAN SRI DATUK SERI DR JASON GOH




 NAZI AND OSMAN MURAD AND JAMES BELTRAN AND ROSEA CARMEN BELTRAN

 MY RISOTTO
 MY FAVOURITE
NILOU AT OUR TABLE

















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