The VIP platter includes tastes of sake-marinated filet mignon, curry shrimp tempura and bacon-wrapped chicken.

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Have dinner downstairs at Grill 83 and feast on dishes like shrimp and lump crab spring rolls and salmon marinated in a red curry, before debuting your own shocking dance moves at one of the many spots on Beale Street.

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Fortunately four to five meals per day of char kwey tiaw (fried noodles in soy sauce with egg and various additions), asam laksa (Penang's famous, indescribably good curry noodle soup), rojak (fruit and veggie salad in a sweet dark shrimp paste) and much, much more, goes down a lot easier than heavier Western foods.

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