Crazy Rich Asians is set in Singapore, but director Jon M. Chu found some of the old-world glamour the story needed across the border in Malaysia, with help from a 30% production rebate. Two of the film's most memorable sequences were shot at Malaysian hotels.
Four Seasons Resort Langkawi
Araminta's bachelorette getaway, the island weekend where Rachel gets her first real taste of the family's world, and its cruelty, was filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Langkawi on Tanjung Rhu beach, where the villas each have their own pool. A small crew also filmed among the limestone rocks rising out of the sea around the island.
Cheong Fatt Tze – The Blue Mansion, Penang
The film's most celebrated scene, the mahjong game in which Rachel and Michelle Yeoh's Eleanor settle their battle over Nick without saying it out loud, was shot at the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion in George Town. The indigo-blue courtyard mansion, built by a 19th-century merchant once called the Rockefeller of the East, is now a boutique heritage hotel inside the UNESCO-listed old town.
Every title in this guide
- Crazy Rich Asians (2018) — Four Seasons Resort Langkawi; Cheong Fatt Tze – The Blue Mansion
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