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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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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
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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!
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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
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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!
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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
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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 »
Thursday, January 6
Vancouver Courier picture and mention for Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2005
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Todd
on Thu 06 Jan 2005 01:10 AM PST
Check out the Vancouver Courier's January 5th issue for a picture of 2004 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Sunday dinner + a mention in Tim Pawsey's Restaurant article "Restaurants aid in tsunami relief. Tim Pawsey writes: "That crazy Canadian multicultural maven Toddish McWong has had to move his legendary and popular Gung Haggis Fat Choy celebration to Floata (180 Keefer St.), the city's largest Chinese restaurant. This year's Jan. 30th Robbie Burns/Chinese New Year Dinner celebration-hosted by CBC Radio personality Shelagh Rogers and Asian Canadian Theatre's Tom Chin-features the "third generation" haggis dim sum, and haggis lettuce wrap, not to mention 12 courses and a cast of stellar performers. Call the Firehall Arts Centre at 604-689-0926 by Jan. 10 to get the early bird rate of $50 for adults, $45 for students, and $35 for children 12 and under. Better still, go with friends for a table of 10. Proceeds benefit Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, Rice Paper Magazine and the Gung Haggis dragon boat team." Click for the full article http://www.vancourier.com/issues05/011205/entertainment.html Sunday, January 2
Earlybird rate extended for Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner January 30th!
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Todd
on Sun 02 Jan 2005 06:50 PM PST
The Earlybird rate for January 30th Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner has been extended until January 10th - Monday. This gives people one more weekend to get their groups together for reserved tables. The Earlybird rate is $50 adult, $45 student, $35 children 12 & under. Starting January 11th, the prices will be $60 adult, $55 student and $45 children 12 & under. Tickets are available at Firehall Arts Centre 604-689-0926. Having the earlybird rate encourages people to buy their tickets in advance, and really helps us better plan the dinner being able to confirm advance head counts. The dinner price is still a good deal at $60 as it includes 10 course meal + haggis + door prizes + great entertainment + 1 year subscription to Rice Paper Magazine ($20 value - not included for children's prices). Ticket sales are doing well. We are well in advance of past years' sales, and expect a full sellout for the January 30, 2005 dinner. Especially with an incredible line up of performers including special co-hosts Shelagh Rogers (CBC Radio's 'Sounds Like Canada') and Tom Chin (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre), Brave Waves, Opera Soprano Heather Pawsey, poet Fred Wah, Highland Dancing brothers Vincent and Cameron Collins, contemporary hip hop singer LaLa and some special surprise guests. Floata Restaurant is a better and larger venue for Gung Haggis Fat Choy, as it has a proper raised stage complete with lighting, sound and video equipment. We definitely plan to have higher production values for 2005.
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Adrienne Wong, Heather Pawsey and Toddish McWong singing sweet sounds together at the 2004 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Sunday night dinner. photo Tim Pawsey.
