Todd Wong with Lion Head

Asian Canadian adventures in inter-cultural Vancouver
and home of Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner.

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Home to my passions for my inter-cultural adventures,

Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Robbie Burns
Chinese New Year Dinner event.


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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

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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

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Year Archive
View Article  Toddish McWong on BBC Radio Scotland: Check it out on-line

Toddish McWong on BBC Radio Scotland -
Check it out on-line
 
"Toddish McWong" or in Canadian, Todd Wong, is featured on BBC Radio Scotland on the radio Scotland website. 

Just click on programs - go to "Scotland Licked" - then wait awhile until you hear the voice of host Maggie Shiels.  Listen to the introductions where she talks about finding me in Canada - then click on the 15 minute fast forward button. I will be heard very very soon....

The interview explores the origins of my Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese New Year dinner event, and the haggis-Chinese fusion food that we have created for it.
The crew said that I definitely had a "Canadian accent" - Funny because my girlfriend said that she loved "Maggie's" liting "Scottish accent."

St. Andrew's Day is in honour of the Patron Saint of Scotland - that's the reason Maggie came looking for me - to find out what I had done with "their haggis".  Simply wrapped it in won ton wrappings and added waterchestnuts, deep fried  and dipped in sweet and sour sauce.  I also describe the haggis lettuce wrap.

Then Maggie asked what I had done to the Robbie Burns poem - "Address to the Haggis"?  I told her that we "updated" it... and proceeded to "rap" it.  I think for the January 22nd, I will have performer Rick Scott sing along with me to "The Haggis wRap!"

Slainte!
Happy St. Andrew's Day (January 30th)



View Article  Toddish McWong on BBC Radio Scotland - next Monday Nov 28th - Scottish Time

Toddish McWong on BBC Radio Scotland - next Monday Nov 28th - Scottish Time

 
"Toddish McWong" or in Canadian, Todd Wong, will be featured onto BBC Radio Scotland on Monday - Nov 28th (11.30 am Scottish time) or 3:30am PST if you are in Vancouver BC.. However, you can go to the listen again option on the radio Scotland website. 

The interview explores the origins of my Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese New Year dinner event, and the haggis-Chinese fusion food that we have created for it.

Maggie Shiels and the crew of the program
Scotland Licked! are now asking me to send them about 2 recipes for Chinese Haggis dishes you serve at your Burns Suppers - so that they can include them on our newsletter!

The crew said that I definitely had a "Canadian accent" - Funny because my girlfriend said that she loved "Maggie's" liting "Scottish accent."

Darn.... but I forgot to tell Maggie that we mix bamboo shoots and water chestnuts in with the haggis for the won ton and the spring rolls.  Makes it good and crunchy.  mmmmm..... crunch crunch - good!
And we mix in maple syrup to the sweet and sour sauce.  Sometimes a bit a Drambuie or scotch too.

My friends always get asked by the media if the haggis is any good.  My Grand-Uncle called it "dandy" - and we always point out that tripe and chicken's feet are always part of Chinese "dim sum" lunch.  "Dim Sum" actually means "little bit of heart", "touch the heart", or "close to the heart" - so the idea of eating Sheep's organs mixed with oatmeal is not such a revolting idea to regular Chinese food dinners.

My girlfriend also said that I forgot to tell Maggie, that my Bear Kilts "Maple Leaf" tartan kilt is made of synthetic polyviscous material.  This makes it perfect for summer when I go dragon boat paddling in the local Vancouver saltwater.


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