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Monday, April 14
Gung Haggis dragon boat team finally paddles in the sunshine!!!
by
Todd
on Mon 14 Apr 2008 11:22 PM PDT
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 »
Saturday, August 13
What's in an audience? Alison Krauss bluegrass VS Vancouver Symphony at Deer Lake Park
by
Todd
on Sat 13 Aug 2005 11:15 AM PDT
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 »
Friday, February 4
Shelagh Rogers loved Gung Haggis Fat Choy! ...and Tom Chin
by
Todd
on Fri 04 Feb 2005 10:32 AM PST
An e-mail from Shelagh Rogers to share with everybody! Todd! It was memorable... Thursday, February 3
Evan's Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 report!
by
Roland Tanglao
on Thu 03 Feb 2005 11:20 AM PST
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 »
Pictures of Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 @ Floata Restaurant
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Todd
on Thu 03 Feb 2005 02:00 AM PST
Wednesday, February 2
Gung Haggis Fat Choy� 2005 Podcast
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Roland Tanglao
on Wed 02 Feb 2005 01:44 AM PST
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 »
Tuesday, February 1
Shelagh Rogers talks about Gung Haggis Fat Choy� on CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada"
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Todd
on Tue 01 Feb 2005 01:03 PM PST
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 »
Monday, January 31
Bill Stilwell's Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 Photos
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Roland Tanglao
on Mon 31 Jan 2005 01:47 PM PST
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 »
Andy Smith's GungHaggisFatChoy2005 Pictures on flickr
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Roland Tanglao
on Mon 31 Jan 2005 11:20 AM PST
Check out Andy Smith's pictures of Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 on Flickr. more »
Boris Mann's Gung Haggis Fat Choy Photos
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Roland Tanglao
on Mon 31 Jan 2005 11:04 AM PST
Check out Boris' Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 Photos on Flickr (all 80 of them!). more »
Todd's first reactions to Gung Haggis Fat Choy� 2005
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Todd
on Mon 31 Jan 2005 03:00 AM PST
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 »
Sunday, January 30
My Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005 photos
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Roland Tanglao
on Sun 30 Jan 2005 11:50 PM PST
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 »
Saturday, January 29
Things to Remember for January 30 Gung Haggis Fat Choy� dinner!
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Todd
on Sat 29 Jan 2005 12:40 PM PST
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 »
Veera devi Khare and Battery Opera's David McIntosh perform at Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ 2005
by
Todd
on Sat 29 Jan 2005 10:12 AM PST
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 »
Thursday, January 27
Wednesday, January 26
Haggis Won Ton taste-testing 2005 for Gung Haggis Fat Choy�dinner
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Todd
on Wed 26 Jan 2005 11:59 PM PST
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 »
Shelagh Rogers loves Gung Haggis Fat Choy� looking forward to the BIG EVENT!
by
Todd
on Wed 26 Jan 2005 11:19 AM PST
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 »
Monday, January 24
Heather Pawsey returns to perform for Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005
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Todd
on Mon 24 Jan 2005 11:18 PM PST
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 »
Sunday, January 23
Burnaby News Leader story: Gung Haggis Fat Choy combines two cultures
by
Todd
on Sun 23 Jan 2005 05:30 PM PST
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 »
What to expect when you come to Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005?
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Todd
on Sun 23 Jan 2005 05:28 PM PST
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 »
Saturday, January 22
Thursday, January 20
2005 Menu for Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ at Floata Restaurant
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Todd
on Thu 20 Jan 2005 12:05 AM PST
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 »
Sunday, January 16
Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ 2005 preview of performers
by
Todd
on Sun 16 Jan 2005 12:38 AM PST
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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2010 GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY Dinner
January 31, 2010 Contact Firehall Arts Centre: phone 604.689.0926 2010 prices SINGLE TICKET $60 + $5 service charge = $65 Student price is $50 + $4.50 = $54.50 (must show student high school or university ID) Children's price is $40 + $4.00 = $44 (ages 13 and under). Reservations for tables of 10 $600 + lower service charge WHAT: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner - 12th Annversary Dinner, celebrating 251st Anniversary of Robert Burns' birth + incoming Chinese New Year of the Tiger. WHEN: 6PM January 31 2010, SUNDAY doors open 5pm, Dinner 6pm WHERE: Floata Chinese Restaurant, #400-180 Keefer St. Media Inquiries Call Gung Haggis Productions / Todd Wong direct: 778-846-7090 email: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca 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! + debut of Gung Haggis parade dragon! 2009 - debut of Gung Haggis Fat Choy Pipes & Drums band + auction of 37 year old special edition Famous Grouse whisky + scotch tastings of Famous Grouse, The Macallan and Highland Park. Watch for more surprises in 2010! Description of 2009 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner co-hosted with CBC News anchor Gloria Macarenko and Media colunist Catherine Barr featuring performers: bagpiper Joe McDonald and Mad Celts, Silk Road Music's Qiu Xia He and Andre Thibault, Opera Soprano Heather Pawsey and DJ Timothy Wisdom, BC Book Prize winner Vancouver poet Rita Wong + poet traslator Tommy Tao, Playwright Adrienne Wong and a scene from "Mixie and The Half-Breeds" Description of 2008 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner co-hosted with Media colunist Catherine Barr featuring performers: , celtic band Blackthorn, bagpiper Joe McDonald and Brave Waves, Ji-Rong Huang on erhu, Film maker Ann-Marie Fleming, Vancouver poet laureate George McWhirter, Playwright Grace Chin and a scene from "The Quickie" Description of 2007 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner co-hosted with CBC Radio's Priya Ramu, featuring performers: Silk Road Music, Heather Pawsey, Brave Waves, Leora Cashe, No Luck Club, Dr. Ian Mason (Burns Club of Vancouver) Lensey Namioka - Author "Half and Half" Margaret Gallagher, "Twisting Fortunes" (sneak preview of play) Description of 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner with co-host with CityTV's Prem Gill featuring performers: Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 starting March Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm 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 2008 season took us to races in Burnaby, Vancouver, Vernon, Vancouver Taiwanese race, UBC, Ft. Langley. It was our strongest team ever and we are proud of our race performances. For more information: Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information phone: 778-846-7090 e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors
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