Sheldon Adelson’s Venetian Macao Resort Hotel is now open for biz on the Cotai Strip. The 2.4 Billion dollar casino is the largest casino in the world and the second largest building in the world.
The resort features 3,000 rooms and 3 indoor canals (as opposed to one in the Venitian in Las Vegas) and mad fresco paintings. This casino tips the balance of power in the casino world in Macao’s favor over Las Vegas. Macao already does more in gaming revenue than Las Vegas (keep in mind Vegas has diversified its income).
Adelson has plans to invest up to $12 billion and build some 20,000 hotel rooms on the Cotai Strip in the near future. Go long Las Vegas Sands Corp. (if you haven’t already).
I haven’t taken a trip to Macao since Stanley Ho (G Manifesto Hall of Fame member) was the main gun and the Hotel Lisboa (Casino Lisboa) regined supreme. I have also chilled with Pansy and Daisy Ho back in the day. Looks like it is time for a return trip. The Rest is Up to You…….
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Hustler’s Hustler
AKA The Pusher’s Pusher
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The theme is Hawaii Fusion, east meets west. This is a chain with 34 restaurants owned by the Outback Streak house company.
I don’t normally do chain places, but Mark used to work there and said I should try it. He set the reservation for me, and his wife was to be our waitress.
The place:
This is a fairly nice place with the emphases on Asian tan colors, dark wood and some bamboo hints throughout the restaurant and bar. They have some really cool wall hangings. Think modern Asian. Nice ambiance and some cool lighting.
The bar area is nice, but smells like sour mix, this is from the rubber floor mats – a common problem in many bars. I wouldn’t want to eat at this smelly bar.
This is a full service bar. There were a few couples eating in the bar area. The bartender was responsive and knowledgeable about the menu. He only messed up one cocktail – forgetting the Grey Goose for my girls Cosmo. (She tasted the difference at once and sent it back.) He recovered nicely. I had the Kona Longboarder Lager, a nice golden lager, not so hoppy brew that won’t kill my taste buds. The bartender offered up a taster of the “House” martini – tasted like Malibu rum, ice and Skyy vodka. I didn’t like it all – too sweet.
The food:
We started off with a really nice Jalapeno Hamachi appetizer with a citrus ponzu sauce.
Paper thin slices of pepper top good size slices of fish along with grapefruit and avocado slices. A great app, good quality fish, nice flavor and not overboard on any one flavor – well balanced. Solid.
Second app was brought to us “on-the-house” and was a smoked salmon panko crusted meatballs. Tasted like smoked fish with panko – nothing special.
We took our drinks and were shown to our table by a tall long legged hottie. Both hostesses were pleasant to the eyes, and one seemed to actually have a brain.
We sampled a couple more apps. We tried the Hot Peanut oil seared Ahi with a soy sauce on it topped with black and white sesame seeds. The hot oil doesn’t really cook the fish as so much as bring out the natural fish oils –thus bringing out even more fish flavor. Very good app here.
We were brought a second on-the-house app – this was a lobster pot-sticker. Pot stickers are usually steamed or pan cooked. These were of the fried variety. They came out not hot, the fried wrapper was not crisp. I couldn’t taste any lobster in it. Served with spicy Togarashi Miso Butter Sauce (good sauce). Not prepared or served correctly.
Next up was a Chinese Muscovy Duck Neapolitan. Start with some sort of green veggie on the bottom of the stack, add a roasted red pepper next, top with duck confit and top with a combo of rich sauces. This one app could ruin an entire meal due to the high level of duck fat (but it’s a good thing). Very rich app with a good amount of duck confit. You could make a light dinner with this one.
Dinner for her was the Diver scallops with a risotto. The scallops were large nicely seared, not over cooked, and the risotto was great. There was a bur blanc type sauce that was done right. The dish was prepared well, and Camilla enjoyed it.
I chose a house special. Hawaiian Butterfish Misoyaki style. This is a very rich dish even for fish. The combo of white miso paste and glazed with teriyaki sauce makes it overall too sweet for my taste. It was served with a ball of sushi rice and a small braised bok choy as the veggie. Due to all the other food before I was only able to eat the fish – and that was difficult due to the richness of everything.
My Take:
Roy no doubt is a great chef with awesome skills.
The entire menu is based all around Roy’s special sauces created for each dish.
These sauces are more in line with heavy rich styles from France then anything from Asia, except for the basic ponzu sauce.
The food quality was good, and the presentations done nicely. The cooks seem to do a good job preparing as everything we had was cooked right, minus that pot-sticker.
The wait staff was on top of everything and provided good service.
Very rich dishes that showcase the sauce not the food.
I prefer more on excellent quality products prepared correctly. Let the high quality of the product speak for itself and use the complicated sauces to highlight the food – not cover it up.
“Nicely pieced together Sir! I am all about rolling solo. I have seen my last days of dragging and funding turds around all night. I have implemented a cover charge to hang out with me for the night, whether it’s my brother, Derek Jeter (who I saw you ho slap in Vegas) or some high rolling import who does leveraged buyouts. I charge $500 up front and $500 on the back end should one of these gremlins swoop on my deep stock of femininas. Even though I am comped EVERYWHERE including charities, I still make these critters buy me drinks that I just dump out and often make them fetch me such crucial G items as Viagra, e-tabs, Escobar, and additional female livestock. Rolling solo is my game too, but why not make a little bank roll off the chum? I tip my white Gucci top hat to you Lizard King, the Peoples Champ has spoken the truth once again!”
That is actually a really good idea, charging a cover charge to hang out, I like it. I typically will not let someone roll with me unless they are bringing a gang of Model girls, and I need to see photos beforehand for confirmation, to make sure they are Haute Couture Models, not something weesh, like a Model that just did some bathing suit print ad for a surf company. I am so sick of guys saying to me, “You already have two girls, can I come with you?”. Come on skippy, I can handle two girls by myself…..MPM
I have been a huge advocate of The Wynn Las Vegas even before I went to the grand opening in 2005. I have had a sizeable position in the stock since back in 2003 (when it was trading at about $13.00 on the New York Stock Exchange, today it sits in the mid eighties). So I figured to protect my investment I might as well drop some scratch in the place.
Wynn was basically Steve Wynn’s opportunity to build his dream hotel. Sure I would have done it a little different, but all in all he did a great job for the $2.7 Billion he spent on it (2,716 rooms so roughly a stick a room). Many times I have used the Wynn as my Base of Operations in Las Vegas , and I must say it never disappoints. High-end cuisine, plenty of dope/functional bars, decently dope cocktail waitresses, beautiful architecture, some marvels of modern construction, great customer service, and high priced enough to generally speaking keep out the low end riff raff. Most importantly, it is a great place to swoop girls back to and check and see if the shower can fit two comfortably (to save water, for environmental reasons of course)
Nas, Street Dreams
Atmosphere:
As you enter the Wynn you are greeted by a wonderland of flowers, mosaics, and colorful, beautiful tile work. Kind of like an Absinthe buzz mixed with Poppy Seeds, I would imagine (and I don’t mean that Exotic Dancer I know from Seemless named Imagine, real name Cindy either). Steve Wynn, always the innovator, made the focus of the hotel seen from the inside versus the old-school way of making the focus the outside of the hotel. Light also can be seen in the casino giving it a fresh feel. The “Lake of Dreams” is worth checking out preferably from the terrace at Daniel Boulud Brasserie with a bottle of red, a pack of smokes, a Charcuterie board (which is really just like a regular Charcuterie board just a lot more exquisite), an Original NY DB Burger with black truffles and foie gras, Braised short ribs (braised for 5 to 6 hours) a pack of well behaved fly girls that have never been.
AZ featuring Nas, How Ya Livin
Rooms:
I always stay in the multi-room suites. I can tell you first hand that they are worth how ever many C-notes they are peddling them for. The views of Las Vegas are always worth a few moments with a cancer stick in hand and terry cloth robe on while you are warming up for the evening. Even the smaller rooms (which I have gotten a few times when I was doing a “Double Room” move) are plenty spacious. The TV’s are flat screen although I don’t care if my TV’s are flat screened or not. I don’t even like TV unless it’s The Nature Channel, I prefer shows on Predators. The towels in the bathroom aren’t as nice as the ones at my crib but are still very nice. The textured wallpaper and marble sinks are also noteworthy. The Showers are great and I have done a pretty extensive unofficial case study and have discovered that up to three Fly girls and one G (your humble author) can fit in the shower and still emerge very crispy and clean. Complementary products are decent.
Competition:
Softer than Armani leathers. As with anywhere more or less in Las Vegas the competition you get from regular guy is pretty flimsy. Sure you have older guys with major cheese looking to leverage their position, but very few of them have any legitimate Game. As the for the younger guys, its mostly spazzed out California Guys with Shiny Shirts, Striped Shirts, t-shirts with some stupid design on it, or what ever the Shirt De Jour is for the regular guy set. Usually the only people I run into with Deadly, Devilish, Bloody Game are G’s I already know from The G Manifesto Tour. By the way, I have an Angel’s face, but Devilish Game. I actually saw a guy waiting in line to get into Tryst with long blond hair, a shinny shirt, designer jeans, and a Cowboy Hat! Yeah you read that correctly, a Cowboy Hat. I guess he was going for some queer Suburban, Orange County , Surfer, Cowboy fusion look. And I am pretty certain the guy was straight! (You can guess at this point I was completely over Tryst and had no interest in going in). Best to avoid the Nightclubs in Las Vegas in general. I really wish Wynn would raise its prices across the board to keep guys like that Surf-Cowboy out. It was really disturbing for me. Or at least have a stricter door policy at the Casino entrance.
Az featuring Nas, Mo Money Mo Murder
Features:
The restaurants, and of course the rooms are really the draw at Wynn. I guess there is some top-less pool at Wynn as well, but I have never been (I know enough Gentleman’s Clubs in Las Vegas that have topless girls already, and at any given time, my room usually has girls full nude. Plus, by going to the Gentleman’s Clubs, you can avoid those harmful UV rays, which can make you look older.) My favorite spots to chill, swoop girls and throw some food down are Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare, the aforementioned Daniel Boulud Brasserie (great bar) and Alessandro Stratta’s joint, Alex. I have eaten a few times at Alex and I really am hard pressed to think of a better meal I have had. Well, in the case against Alex, I did have great company each time. Alex also does have a secret spot in it that might be the most Tranquillo place in all of Las Vegas . And that’s all I am going to say about it in a effort to keep it Tranquillo.
The G Manifesto Move:
Get rooms on the lower floors. Insist on it. The reason? There are way more floors in Wynn than it seems for the outside (an architectural trick) and you can get caught in the elevators for unreasonable amounts of time. Even though it’s a long night in Vegas, time is always of the essence. The last thing you want to be doing when your trying to meet a girl at the Parasol Down bar before she heads to work is to be caught in a elevator with some Couple from Dallas and four “party guys” from Scottsdale and the elevator stopping on every floor with more uninteresting people. Also, kids often times hit all the buttons and you can get speed bumped on your way up to your room with a few Fly Rhino Girls. Speaking of Parasol Down, you want to lock it down as well as Parasol Up. These are the two most functional bars for swooping girls and for “meeting points” than any place at Wynn. I utilize the Parasol Down Bar early in the night, and the Parasol Up Bar later in the night and early morning. I have had so much success in both these bars, that when ever I walk up to them I can’t help but smile. The Rest is Up to You…
G,
Just FYI, the greatest cyclist in the history of the sport, Eddy Merckx, smoked then (1960s) and still smokes to this day. The guy was a monster on the road, won 5 Tours de France, the world championships, the hour record, too many classics to name, and always came off like a true G. Look him up, you’ll see.
Cheers,
SL
and
Hard hitting info from the most credible underground source known across the US . I know you have run with a few athletes in your day and have defeated plenty along the way, and I remember seeing you put out your Monte Cristo on Derek Jeter’s forehead like it was an ash tray in Vegas years back and instantly became a big fan. I also witnessed you KO all pro NFL linebacker Shawne Merriman with a right cross in a plush LA nightclub over a nightlife princess, but you fail to mention the power and popularity of the hemp cigarette in this weeks manifesto. Many famous athletes toke the tangi and poke the lettuce wrapped swisher sweets. In fact last night I pulled 4 bong loads, took 3 vaporizer rips, and toasted 2 J’s all while sipping on Krug and having weird sex with 2 Asian supermodels imported freshly off the runway from a high end Tokyo fashion show. Mingas wasn’t happy when I dropped my roach clip in her hair during a doggie session but that’s not my problem now is it Mason?
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA Sosa
AKA El Campeador
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AZ, Hey AZ
Picasso, Le Reve
AZ, The Come up (COOKIN SOUL REMIX)…Swagger Defined
So you’re on a roll in your crappy hometown (and I don’t mean beans either). You have been swooping mad girls. Your Game is water-tight at the dive bars. Your Day Game is lacking no zip at the malls. You have been cleaning up at your local Hooters. You even somersaulted a pound of the G 13 you got from the V 13. You think your ready for South Beach and all the Models that come with it right? No, you’re not ready. Not until you read The G Manifesto. (Not like there is anything wrong with Hooters girls. In fact, I have done an unofficial case study and I have found out that Hooters Girls are like a farm team for future Playboy Playmates. The G Manifesto on swooping Hooters Girls, coming soon…)
We have already gone thru basic technique in The South Beach War Report Part I: The Basics (click link); if you haven’t yet read it now would be a good time to etch it in your skull. Today we are going go over Advanced moves and techniques for Boa Constricting South Beach.
We have already gone over Street Game techniques in Street Game…It’s kinda like The Crack Game (click link), so you should have a good idea of what I am talking about. Street Game is at a premium in South Beach (especially in comparison to cities like Las Vegas where Street Game is almost non-existent). Some of the most beautiful girls you will see in South Beach are going to be on the Street. Corner to Corner. Curb serving. Anticipation is paramount. You need to Anticipate which direction a girl is walking when she is at a street corner. This is true for Day Game, Evening Game and After-Hours Game (I never have overstood why people call it “after-hours”, if you are looking for heist-tips or swooping, these are “peak hours”). If you see a fly Paraguayan Model Girl with a Nancy Gonzales turquoise Crocodille Clutch in hand at northeast corner of Collins and 17th and you are across from The Delano, you need to make quick calculations and Anticipate. Is she going to mash up 17th? Or do I need to cross Collins and cut her off in front of The Sagamore and pitch her on cocktails and pro-bono Lamb Cigars at the Bar at Social Miami? Its questions like these and proper Anticipation that separate the perpetrator G’s from The Truth. Posting up, dressed sharp (Rakish Ozwald Boateng 2 button suit, side vents and Gucci loafers, loosened Mint green Zegna tie, and I don’t mean Club Mynt either, 9 milly, rubber grip, should work) with a cigarette hanging out of your mouth, clacking a Zippo near a modeling agency has never been bad for anyone’s health either.
Slave, Watching You
Research
“Time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted”-El Cid (G Manifesto Certifed Castilian Nobleman, Conquerer and 11th century G). You need to know which spots are the right places to be on which nights in South Beach. This is easy if you are me and you have this Data memorized. But if you are regular everyday Guy, you are going to have no chance unless you have the intell. The easiest way to get this data is to post up at a High-end hotel and lock the bartender down. Grease them if you need to. Get the info. If you lock the bartender they will probably give you a name or two to drop as well. Make sure you get the times you want to arrive, door guys names, afterhour’s spots and restaurants wired. If the bartender is a fly girl, pitch her….skippy.
Early Leads
A lot of people don’t utilize this angle. Miami Beach is the kind of town where it’s easy to be unfocused and get Caught Up (and I don’t mean that Bokeem Woodbine film either). It’s a long night in Miami Beach; getting Early Leads is like investing in Mutual Funds with some jerkoff stockbroker before the Bubble burst. Or investing in real estate before the equally jerkoff mortgage brokers got their pockets turned inside out. Call the Early Leads later in the night as an “escape hatch” if need be. Sure you have to listen to Fergie’s “Glamorous” track on every girl’s ringer but trust me; you will be thanking me at 3:30 am eastern standard time.
Pimps
Late night, certain sections of the street become a Track in South Beach. You will see a lot of Pimps and their girls rolling the streets. We have already touched on The Pimp Game in: Veins of Ice: Lessons from The Pimp. I always say, “what up” to the Pimps on the Ave. Game recognizes Game type situation. Player Recognition. They always respect my swagger. And they are usually blinded by my suit game. I always take a little time out from the evening and chop it up with these guys.
Heaters
There are plenty of tough guys on South Beach. A lot of these guys work out a lot. Now, I hit hard, have solid Muay Thai and my submission defense is up to snuff, but that last thing you are going to see me do is roll around on the Concrete in a $2100.00 custom Prada suit (my goal, of course , in Miami Beach is to roll around with a Model girl or two on high thread count Egyptian Cotton Sheets). So I always carry chrome on Miami Beach. Historically speaking, the Mack 11 with silencer has been de rigueur on Miami Beach. But recently, I have been favoring the Heckler & Koch MP5 when I can feel it in the air…more high class, more style points. (And I’m not Phil Collins; I’m more like Joseph Stalin). I drop 3 G’s on suits imagine what I spend gun shopping……(and I don’t care what I spend on security it helps me sleep during the day.)
Even the most Sinister G’s can hurt after a good three day runner in Miami Beach. Now try three months. The good news is (and I don’t mean News Café either) is that getting a workout on and Entering The Dragon in South Beach is as easy as picking up a dope Hollywood Party Girl with a faux talent agent card (especially compared to getting a workout on in Las Vegas). Bust a beach jog up to the Fountaine Bleu and back like that. Keep your head right, don’t go insane and try to hit the same vein as Kurt Cobain. The humidity will help you sweat out the good stuff with a quickness. I always like to box a few rounds as well to keep my hand speed and reaction times up. Many times I will leave Miami Beach in better shape than I arrived. Make sure you intermix a steady diet of Stone Crabs and Haute Cuisine with Cuban food (home cooked Ropa Vieja, Ajiaco Cubano, Roast Suckling Pig and Pollo con Quimbobo y Platanos as well) to Fuel The Dragon. Also, make sure you Gulp down plenty of Café con leche to keep the Skull Game tight. And, chain smoke to keep your lungs in order.
Connections
Connections are King in South Beach. Which is good for me since I have them in Spades. Cuban G’s, Club owners, Door guys, G’s who move two kinds of Miami Bass, Colombian Rakes, Vip Hosts, Euro Playboys, South American General’s kids, Cocaine Cowboys, Matre D’s, NYC Kool Kids, Bensonhurst, Bay ridge, Gravesend, Bath Beach top Guns, Marielitos (did I miss anyone?), you name it I got them. Then you too can be slick as a curl and smooth as a pearl. Now you just got to spit more Game than a mouth full of poker chips to get the Models with the bony hips….
“El Cid never defeated by any man on the Earth”. One of the reasons for El Cid’s success was that he constantly analyzed warfare. If you have a tight crew, all of you should analyze what works and what doesn’t. Take suggestions. He also was a great innovator and used unexpected strategies in War. Do the same. Create your own moves. Pioneer your own techniques. The Rest is Up to You…….
Soon we will tackle Getting into Clubs: South Beach Style. And later we will get into The Framework for Swooping Models. Till then, The Rest is Up to You…..
I post up at many different spots when I am in Los Angeles. Most of the time the reason is to keep the competition off balance. One of my favorite places to kick off my Gucci loafers is Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood. The location on Sunset Strip keeps you pretty centrally located (if there is such a thing as being “centrally located” in LA) to make multiple strike moves. The place also has plenty of history, soul and class (three things you have to strain yourself to find in LA). Heck, the place was designed and built from 1929-1931 by architect Leland A. Bryant in beautiful Art Deco stilo. Art Deco is of course G Manifesto Certified.
Atmosphere:
Sunset Tower Hotel was very popular during The Golden Age of Hollywood. Jean Harlow, Gable, Greta Garbo, Mae West, Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner all kicked it here in grand style. Bugsy Siegel (G Manifesto Certified Innovator) ran a gambling ring out of his room when he took over LA. Howard Hughes kept mistresses here. Sinatra poli’d here as well. It has appeared in many films and has had plenty of literary mention. With a history like that, I just take my place here as the newest installment in a long history of International Playboys. The reality is that the hotel slid from grace from the 60’s to the 80’s but in 2005 Jeff Klein did a revovation that updated the Art Deco steez and gave it a modern feel. A very dope blend of historical and modern style.
Rooms:
I always stay in The Penthouse, which I recommend. I usually roll into the lobby full of swagger and the people that work at Sunset Tower are so amenable that the usually upgrade me pro-bono to the The Penthouse. The Penthouse is on the 15th floor and allows a stunning view of LA, as stunning as LA can be anyway. The wraparound terrace is probably the best feature, because they don’t like you sparking up cancer sticks in the rooms. Modern bathrooms. I am sure the other rooms in the hotel are dope too. But you could post up in The Penthouse for a couple weeks at a time…and I have. Throw on a plush terry cloth robe spark up a Montecristo Churchill (on the terrace of course) and get ready to pick up some girls that were extras and bit parts on Entourage…..
Competition:
I have always thought that the Competition in LA in general is pretty paper thin. Today its mostly pseudo –actor guys with messy hair, gay shirts tucked in the front untucked in the back, big belt buckles, suspect designer jeans and boots?. It always makes me laugh how straight guys in LA dress like gay guys in other places. Sure you run into an occasional celebrity but they are pretty soft in general. We will deal with destroying Celebrities in a future G Manifesto…..
Features:
One of the best features of Sunset Tower Hotel is the Tower Bar. The Tower Bar used to be Bugsy Siegel’s room and gambling den. They should have kept it a gambling den, but I guess that is progress for you. The food is your relatively standard Diver Sea Scallops with a carrot Puree, Ahi Tuna Tartare, Beef Tartare, Sirloin Burger with Carmelized Onions, Langoustine Pappardelle with white truffles kind of joint. Good execution by Chef Dakota Weiss. Supposedly has a “Hollywood” clientele. Who really cares? Word on the street though is that Puffy got denied entry to a gig here.
The spa is decent, and there is a beauty salon in case you need to get a hair cut. The gym is decent as well. No boxing equipment however. Good enough to shake off a night out.
The G Manifesto Move:
As usual, lock down the spot. Getting upgraded to The Penthouse is key, and as we know Keys open doors. Order up Kobe Beef like Shaquille O’Neil. The main thing you want to do is get the Valets on your team (refer to Art of the Grease) and get access to the pro-bono House Car. Rolling around LA in a town car with driver is worth its weight in gold. Go kill nightspots like its euthanasia. The Rest is Up to You……..
