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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Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team,

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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  Gung Haggis dragon boat team finally paddles in the sunshine!!!
The sunshine stayed out - and it was warm!!! no rain in sight... and lots of dragon boaters came out to paddle in the sunshine. We had 28 people show up, so we took two dragon boats out. Gayle Gordon led one boat, and I lead the other. Both Stephen Wong and Stephen Mirowski started steering. Ashleigh and Wendy were lead strokes on the Chinchillas. Tzhe and Keng were lead strokes on the Donkeys. Gayle and I also took some turns at lead stroke as well.   more »
View Article  What's in an audience? Alison Krauss bluegrass VS Vancouver Symphony at Deer Lake Park
I went to two different concerts this week: Alison Krauss and Union Station at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver on Tuesday Aug 9th, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at Deer Lake Park on Friday August 12th.   more »
View Article  Shelagh Rogers loved Gung Haggis Fat Choy! ...and Tom Chin



Shelagh Rogers loved Gung Haggis Fat Choy! ...and Tom Chin

An e-mail from Shelagh Rogers to share with everybody!

Todd!

It was memorable...
And you made it so!

Thank you for the wonderful evening Sunday. I really enjoyed it. What a great mix of cultures...all equalling one crazy bunch of Canadians. It made me feel proud.  I had a blast. Had great fun at our table...just love Tom Chin...and it was great to search out the notables.

Bravo to you, my friend.
Hopefully you have had some rest,
Shelagh

View Article  Evan's Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 report!
A combination of Robbie Burns day and Chinese New Year. Add some fusion food, some local politico's and a smattering of a talent show and you have the 5 hour fun-stravaganza that occured this Sunday at the Floata Restaurant.   more »
View Article  Pictures of Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 @ Floata Restaurant



Pictures from Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 with performers and special guests.  Go to Categories and click on Photos Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005

top l-r:
1) Joy McPhail MLA & Jenny Kwan MLA;
2) Toddish McWong, Joy McPhail, Jenny Kwan, Mayor Larry Campbell, Shelagh Rogers
3) Soprano Heather Pawsey
4) Toddish McWong and Deb Martin
5) Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell
6) Karen Wong (sheng) & Heather Pawsey (vocals)
7) Tom Chin, Shelagh Rogers & Todd Wong
8) Alex Chisolm & Carmen Rosen
9) Haggis with vegetarian lettuce wrap
10) Don Montgomery, Mayor Larry Campbell, Toddish McWong, Enid Campbell
11) Joe McDonald with Chinese flute
12) Performers LaLa (front) Pat Covernton, Chris Trinidad, Jan Walls, Carmen Rosen

Official pictures taken by photographer Ray Shum to be posted soon.

View Article  Gung Haggis Fat Choy� 2005 Podcast
Gung Haggis Fat Choyâ„¢ 2005 Podcast Find out what blew Roland Tanglao away in my Gung Haggis Fat Choyâ„¢ 2005 Podcast (1.4 Mb MP3).   more »
View Article  Shelagh Rogers talks about Gung Haggis Fat Choy� on CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada"
One million and a half CBC Radio listeners across Canada listened to Shelagh Rogers describe her Gung Haggis Fat Choyâ„¢ hosting experience to the nation on Monday morning, January 31st. It was an exhilerating evening, Shelagh absolutely LOVED the event, and she hopes tol return next year as a co-host with me again.   more »
View Article  Bill Stilwell's Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 Photos
Check out Bill Stilwell's Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 Photos. By the way, it was fun meeting Aaron (whose photos are not yet up) and chatting with Bill at the bloggers table yesterday. See you next year!   more »
View Article  Andy Smith's GungHaggisFatChoy2005 Pictures on flickr
Check out Andy Smith's pictures of Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 on Flickr.   more »
View Article  Boris Mann's Gung Haggis Fat Choy Photos
Check out Boris' Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 Photos on Flickr (all 80 of them!).   more »
View Article  Todd's first reactions to Gung Haggis Fat Choy� 2005
Wow... what an evening...58 tables and approximately 570 people attending the 2005 Gung Haggis Fat Choyâ„¢ dinner. Lots of happy happy people giving compliments, apologizing for leaving before the end of the show - but all simply amazed at the warmth and cameraderie that was created between the performers and the audience. Definitely an intimate dinner for almost 600 people!   more »
View Article  My Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 photos
Here's Roland Tanglao's GungHaggisFatChoy 2005 photos on Flickr. Check out Flickr's GungHaggisFatChoy tag (and GungHaggisFatChoy 2005 RSS feed) for more photos.   more »
View Article  Things to Remember for January 30 Gung Haggis Fat Choy� dinner!
Things to remember for Gung Haggis Fat Choyâ„¢ dinner on January 30. Free Parking at Floata! Arrive early -Dinner show starts promptly at 6pm. Vegetarian dishes abound in our menu. Free subscription to Rice Paper Magazine: Raffle Tickets - Have fun, and Sing lots!    more »
View Article  Veera devi Khare and Battery Opera's David McIntosh perform at Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ 2005
The surprise performances to watch for at Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ 2005 will be: Veera devi Khare is an opera soprano that sings classical cross-over, jazz and Indian chants. David McIntosh of Battery Opera performing with Max Murphy on Baritone Saxophone. I performed with this couple at a Bob's Lounge evening back in December.   more »
View Article  Win a pair of tickets to Gung Haggis Fat Choy on CBC Radio's Early Edition
Win a pair of tickets to Gung Haggis Fat Choy on CBC Radio's Early Edition Friday show.    more »
View Article  Haggis Won Ton taste-testing 2005 for Gung Haggis Fat Choy�dinner
Tonight we did a taste-test for Gung Haggis Fat Choyâ„¢ Haggis Won Ton, Haggis Spring Rolls, and Haggis Lettuce Wrap. Too much haggis? Never too much haggis! Everybody was amazed at how good it tasted. I invited some of the performers and organizers, dragon boat team members for this special treat. I ordered some of the food that we were planning for the menu and my dragon boat coaching buddy Bob Brinson joined me, tired from a day of finishing work on the Dragon boat go-carts that I had just delivered up to Simon Fraser University. First up was special chow mein and shrimp balls with crab claws. Bob, comedian Tom Chin, and my girlfriend Deb all pronounced this dish a delicious winner.   more »
View Article  Shelagh Rogers loves Gung Haggis Fat Choy� looking forward to the BIG EVENT!
My telephone chat with Shelagh Rogers this morning was about how we will co-host the Gung Haggis Fat Choyâ„¢ dinner. "Todd, I just think what you are doing is so wonderful," Shelagh tells me. "When we had you on the show at the Roundhouse in 2003, I had no idea..." It is such a joy having Shelagh Rogers come to be a co-host with me so that this esteemed host for CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada," can now experience what she missed out on back in 2003, when she first listened with such interest about how I was bringing together Robbie Burns Day and Chinese New Year through music, food and poetry.   more »
View Article  Heather Pawsey returns to perform for Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005
Heather Pawsey, returns to the Gung Haggis Fat Choy musical line-up for 2005. She is a noted Soprano recently seen in last year's Vancouver Opera's "Electra" as the Confidant. "It was a hoot!" she says of her participation at 2004 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner - as she sang songs in old Gaelic and Mandarin Chinese. She also changed costumes from a very smart long dress tartan and vest outfit to a very sexy red Chinese cheong-sam.    more »
View Article  Burnaby News Leader story: Gung Haggis Fat Choy combines two cultures
Check out this front page lead story..... "Todd Wong - often dubbed Toddish McWong - never thought in a million years he, a fifth-generation, Chinese-Canadian, would ever be wearing a Scottish kilt. But then life threw him a curveball, resulting in Gung Haggis Fat Choy. d story in Sunday's Burnaby News Leader"   more »
View Article  What to expect when you come to Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005?
Hints on how to enjoy the most from your Gung Haggis Fat Choy evening... Arrive Early: Buy Your Raffle Tickets: This dinner is the primary fundraising event... The first appetizer dish will appear once people are seated... From then on... a new dish will appear every 15 minutes... Expect the unexpected!    more »
View Article  Pick of the Week is Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ for Georgia Straight and Canada.com
www.Canada.com - AROUND TOWN The Georgia Straight - Straight Goods Georgia Straight - Book Choice of the Week Dine Out Vancouver 2005   more »
View Article  2005 Menu for Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ at Floata Restaurant
Every year we balance lots of exciting and savoury combinations of dishes with our favorite traditional Chinese New Year dishes and enough to keep the vegetarians happy. In 2004, with Flamingo Chinese Restaurant, we presented "haggis wun tun" and "haggis springrolls." Definitely a "hit" with the patrons and the media - who "ate" it up! Seriously! I took haggis wun tun to Shaw's "Urban Rush" and Global Morning News, as well as CBC Radio's The Afternoon Show, and CBC TV's "Canada Now" Our selections are not a real "traditional" Chinese New Year dinner menu - but a blending of favorites, and brand new fusion-fare. It is created to help introduce "real Chinese banquet fare" to Scottish-Canadians and to help make "haggis" safe for Chinese-Canadians. Here is the menu for 2005, subject to change at my whimsy and the kitchen's demands:    more »
View Article  Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ 2005 preview of performers
The musical performers are planning their presentations and creating some great surprises. Here's a sneak peak at who's coming. CBC Radio's Shelagh Rogers and Tom Chin from Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, will co-host with me.    more »
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