During the recent Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas, I got a chance to have lunch with Eleanor Chin. She’s the sugar momma who paid $1,025 to have lunch with me and six other ASW rockstars. The money went to support Affiliate Marketers Give Back, 2011 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, also known as “Save The Boobies.”
Lunch was at Red 8 inside the Wynn Hotel. However, the restaurant seemed to have lost our reservation when we got there and there was a huge hour-long line up (it was lunch time after all). The restaurant apologized but said there were no tables available right away. That’s when Missy Ward decided to get medieval on their asses. In not so many words, she told Red 8 that this lunch was for charity, that she’s holding a convention at the hotel, that she has 5,000 people here and she wanted a table NOW! Within a few minutes, a table magically became available. If you want first class treatment no matter where you go, roll with Missy!
Seated around Missy and Eleanor were Shawn Collins, Rae “Sugarrae” Hoffman Dolan, Brian Littleton, Chris Pearson and me. Shoemoney wasn’t able to make it because he was preparing for his Link Control launch. He will make it up to Eleanor at a later date.
Red 8 Asian Bistro is about as authentic as Las Vegas, which is to say, not very. It can’t seem to decide what type of Asian restaurant it is. The menu is a missmash of cuisine from Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Malay and every other Asian country you can dream up. I ordered the beef brisket noodle soup, which was prepared Hong Kong style. It was OK but I could get a much better one at any Chinese restaurant in Vancouver for a third of the price. Red 8 is the first restaurant I’ve been to where I can order a Hong Kong style dish with a miso soup. Shawn decided to be adventurous and ordered the ox tail soup. I’m not sure what Asian country that was from.
The lunch happened on Missy’s birthday. Red 8 was nice enough to give Missy a birthday ice cream with one candle on it. Overall, everyone had a good time and we shared our tips and tricks on how to run an Internet business with Eleanor. I hope she got her $1,025 worth.
Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins tries out the ox tail soup.
And lived to tell about it. 
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Wow.That Asian food looks good.I like sushi and Thai Curry.Well hope it was delicious John.
Yeah, looks like some seriously great food! John, I like your story about Missy Ward saving the day with the “magic” table that appeared. Awesome stuff!
jummy food
Ikki,
Your profound and complex comments are really surprising. All 2 words now. Where do you go for inspiration to be able to post such valuable contributions?
He is really making me more hunger by publishing
such a yummy pics in motion.
Yeah looks good. I saw Red8 but never made it. Next time
i like icecream
lol I don’t think ox tail is that exotic. I think squid is more like it.
Hmmm, I don’t recall squid being on the menu but they had jelly fish!
Hi,
Jelly fish? ouch! I’m sure it stings.
Jelly fish is actually very tasty. I remember forcing Zac Johnson to try it. Too bad I didn’t have a video of his reaction after he put it in his mouth. lol
Must’ve been very unpleasant. :0
Or was he pleasantly surprised?
I’ve never tried jelly fish probably never will unless I’m drunk.
Jelly fish is more like it! Much more exotic than ox tail.
im not much of a fan of seafood. Besides shrimps, i think seafood is very overrated.
John,
I bet Eleanor really got her money’s worth. It’s great to that the money goes to a good cause.
Awesome stuff. Honestly, for $1025 this sounds like a real steal.
All the best,
Ian
I hope it was worth it for her as well. Because I don’t really like to discuss business when I’m eating, it’s more of a leisure thing for me.
yes, i think money should never be involved when eating. I mean, if you have money, just pay yourself the food you want, its as simple as that! We all should eat nice meals every day.
Shawn looks happy after having that.
I am happy reliving it with the picture – that was the best (first) ox tail I ever had.
Ox tail is an Indonesian cuisine. If prepared correctly, it would be very delicious. In the past, if I saw ox tail in the grocery store, I used to take one pack home and prepared it myself. My wife didn’t like it after we were in the US saying too much fat and cholesterol in ox tail. Too bad I’m a vegetarian now, and it was a food of the past.
I’m glad you love it, Shawn.
man!! those foods looks delicious
I thinks same, and complains always to the John that he makes us more crazy about his pics and video post to know what he is eating and roaming around.
I don’t like that restaurant and food.
seeing tha picture, im already like this food
The food looks good but not as good as what is usually on dot com pho..
Yeah, that hostess that thought she was going to have an easy time dismissing us, didn’t expect me to run all over her.
Thanks for doing this again John. Eleanor was such a pleasure to have lunch with.
Missy, the management at Red 8 obviously failed at providing the service that would be expected at such a place. Losing a reservation is unacceptable and their reaction was worse. While I’m sure that people pull rank in attempt to move ahead of others, they have to be conscious of making mistakes.
The hotel should have had someone that was at your beck and call to take care of whatever you wanted whenever you wanted it, reservation or no reservation. Wynn spends an enormous amount of money on presenting a first class image and then messes it up on the human factor.
Why not send your convention contact to this thread and let them read what people think?
I actually spoked to the General Manager about the incident
The Wynn is trying to figure out where the ball got dropped. The part that really put me over the edge was even though I showed the email correspondence between myself and the restaurant manager himself to the hostess, she basically dismissed it. That was the point when I “strongly urged” her to seat us. It took her a few minutes, but she finally did set us a table.
“Strongly urged.” Love it.
Wow, having documentation and she sill dismissed it. Somebody ought to be fired.
Come to think of it, my first experience dinning at the Wynn was less than stellar… I guess that’s a good reason why I never ate their again.
I’ve enjoyed many restaurants in Las Vegas (that’s what my wife an I go for– we don’t gamble) and the Wynn is the only place I’ve really not been satisfied with when it comes to service…
Looks delicious, just enjoy from here-on computer screen….
Wew, the soup looks good. Expensive lunch but I think it is a good spent because for charity.
The food looks good… but I think its too much expensive tho
A birthday ice cream with one candle is a good trick!
you always eating great food
Yeah!! That’s why we get all those pics and vids
iummmmmmmm nice meat
I ate dinner there one night at ASW. One word: “Underwhelmed.”
The lunch looks nice
In my country, Romania, asian people usually avoid chinese restaurants and go mostly at the popular fast foods.. I thought it’s because they had enough of their traditional food.it’s the same with lebanese people which avoid lebanese restaurants. In fact, that’s the same for cooks. Since I am a cook.. when I eat out (extremly rarely) I rather prefer to go to a fast food than a restaurant because restaurants cook meals that I can also do at home.
Anyway, that’s why I’m pretty surprised that you actually eat in asian restaurants
OMG!! I miss that food so bad!! can’t wait to taste it now
Looks like a fun time!
I bet Eleanor Chin must have got a lot to learn form you guys! Lucky person. So what insider tips did you guys give her? #justasking
I like the food on the first photo. Is that braised beef with noodle soup? I missed Chinese food. Friend dumplings and Yang Chou friend rice are some of my favourites.
The Person is wearing studio press shirt. Is he studio press website owner?
Quite expensive but it must have been worth it. You need to always eat well to enjoy life I guess.
See, he is earning enough money, then why do you think, he wont eat much. He is the luckiest Person to Eat Lot of Food.