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Welcome to GungHaggisFatChoy.com
Home to my passions for my inter-cultural adventures, Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner event. Save Kogawa House campaign, Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team, Find what you are looking for by 1) scroll the topics links, 2) use the search function ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team for lots of summer fun, fitness and friendship. We are a social team full of cultural vigor, that likes to eat. We have been featured on television, local, national and international. We have a unique and internationally famous fundraiser dinner event. We practice Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm Wednesday 6pm - 7:45 pm We meet at Dragon Zone clubhouse - just south of Science World in Creekside Park above the Aquabus and dragon boat docks. Our coach Todd Wong has 15+ years of experience including novice, recreational and competitive levels, and both community and corporate teams. Our 2005 Season brought us the David Lam Award for being the team that best represented the multicultural spirit of the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, and Bronze medals at the Vancouver International Taiwanese Dragon Boat Race. In 2007, we won Gold in B Division at Vernon Races. For more information: Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information phone: 604-987-7124- e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2009 TICKETS Available in October 2008 WHAT: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner - 12th Annual Dinner, celebrating 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns' birth + Chinese New Year's Eve. WHEN: 6PM January 25 2009, SUNDAY doors open 5pm WHERE: Floata Chinese Restaurant, #400-180 Keefer St. CULTURE: Our Performers create something special for us every year with traditional and contemporary performances featuring everything in-between and beyond! FOOD: A quirky fusion/mix/buffet of Scottish Canadian and Chinese Canadian culture 10 course Chinese banguet dinner 2004 - The debut of Gung Haggis Won-Ton 2005 - Haggis lettuce wrap! 2007 - Haggis dim sum appetizer buffet 2008 - Scotch tastings! Watch for more surprises in 2008! Description of 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner featuring performers: Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, with co-host Prem Gill . Media Inquiries Call Gung Haggis Productions 604-987-7124 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors
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Wednesday, January 25
Janice Wong featured on Fanny Kiefer Show Friday on Shaw TV Cable
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Todd
on Wed 25 Jan 2006 03:08 PM PST
 Janice Wong featured on Fanny Kiefer Show Friday on Shaw TV Cable Studio
4 broadcasts in the Lower Mainland (except Delta) on Shaw TV Cable 4
Live at 9:00am weekdays repeating at 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 9:00 pm, 2:00 am
In Victoria on Shaw TV Cable 11 4:00pm weekdays (with a one-day delay)
In the Cowichan Valley on Shaw TV Cable 4 4:00pm WeekdaysStudio 4 with Fanny Kiefer is only available on Shaw TV
Wednesday, January 18
Interviews, Kogawa House, Gung Haggis Fat Choy taste testing, Bryan Adams
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Todd
on Wed 18 Jan 2006 11:58 PM PST
Busy busy days leading up to Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner event now. CBC Radio Freestyle called in the morning to find out more about the dinner and to set up an interview for Friday morning to be broadcast on Friday afternoon, January 20th. ~~~ We had taste-testing at the Floata Restaurant for the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner tonight. Attending was Roland Tanglao of www.vaneats.com, chef Stephen Wong, dragon boat team members Dave Samis, Daming and Deb Martin. CBC radio reporter Margaret Gallagher also dropped in to pick up some haggis won ton to use in an on-air segment of "What's going on" and to give away 2 tickets for Gung Haggis Fat Choy on 690 to Go! More on our taste testing tomorrow. more »
Tuesday, January 17
CHOW + Wong X 4 = Chef Stephen wong joins panel discussion on CHOW at VPL
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Todd
on Tue 17 Jan 2006 02:09 PM PST
Wong, Wong, Wong and Wong: Not a secret Hong Kong Triad but a Vancouver food and history Quartet (we sound very dangerous, don't you think?)
Chef Stephen Wong has now been added to the panel discussion on Chinese food, life and restaurants for Janice Wong's presentation of CHOW From China to Canada: Memories of Food and Family. more »
Friday, January 13
Janice Wong's Book CHOW at Vancouver Public Library January 18th + Panel Discussion
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Todd
on Fri 13 Jan 2006 11:59 PM PST
Janice Wong's Book CHOW at Vancouver Public Library January 18th + Panel Discussion
 Wednesday January 18 7:30 pm Free Event Peter Kaye Room, Lower Level Central Library 350 West Georgia Street Janice Wong presents her book, Chow from China to Canada: Tales of Food and Family. A collection of over 50 traditional Chinese village dishes, it contains early photographs, immigration documents, 1940s restaurant menus and handwritten recipes from some of Canada's first ethnic restaurants. Janice Wong, a Vancouver-based artist and daughter of a Chinese restaurateur, has assembled her father's recipes and her family's history in this unique cookbook; Panel Discussion on Chinese food and Chinese Restaurants: Janice is joined by by: Larry
Wong of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society
Here is the inside story on the eventTodd Wong of the creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy Stephen Wong, celebrity chef Janice is my 2nd cousin-once-removed. We are descendants of Rev. Chan Yu Tan, who arrived in Canada in 1891. And I only met her earlier this year when she announced that her book was coming out. We immediately bonded, and I have enjoyed helping her promote her book. We did a panel discussion together with Larry Wong at the West Vancouver Library and had so much fun, we decided to do it for Vancouver. |
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