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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 31
Performers at Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2007 - where to see them next!
by
Todd
on Wed 31 Jan 2007 06:30 PM PST
* Listen to Priya Ramu, host of CBC Radio's "On the Coast" - 690 AM, 3pm to 6pm
* go see Twisting Fortunes with Grace and Zen and Charlie!
* come out to a traditional Burns dinner (Ian - we can start a "Young Burns Club" as an auxilliary to the Burns Club of Vancouver)
* see Qiu Xia He perform at Capilano College on Feb 2, at "Night Bird Singing" concert before Silk Road Music goes for an extended tour in Toronto Feb 4 to March
* recognize Heather Pawsey at the Vancouver Opera's Magic Flute, or see her at "Night Bird Singing," at Capilano College on Feb 2
* see Leora Cashe Feb 11th at Terry Fox Theatre or on March 11 at The Cellar for a Joni Mitchell tribute set at The Cellar on March 11... or most Sunday mornings with Jaye at the Centre for Spiritual Living, at the Masonic Hall.
* see Margaret Gallagher on "Living in Vancouver" on CBC TV with fello hapa Jennifer Burke.
* come to see No Luck Club at the Anza Club on Feb 2, for the CJSF Anniversary party!
* recognize Lensey Namioka's books at the stores, or the libraries!
* come to Harry's First Friday Forum at the Nikkei Heritage Centre for intercultural music and discussion.
* say Hi to Carl, when he does his cound gigs at The Roxy or around town.
* catch Joe McDonald with Brave Waves, Mad Celts or solo around town...
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Monday, January 29
Saturday, January 27
Tickets for Gung Haggis Fat Choy on the weekend.
by
Todd
on Sat 27 Jan 2007 02:33 PM PST
There are limited tickets available at the door.
Cost is:
$75 for regular seating
$85 for Premium seating (closer seating + 2 bottles of wine on the table)
For reservations call:
Todd Wong
778-846-7090
Tickets must be picked up between 5:00 pm and 6:00pm or they will be released back for sale. more »
Prizes for the Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2007 dinner
by
Todd
on Sat 27 Jan 2007 02:33 PM PST
We thank our prize sponsors for their wonderful donations that support our event.
Monies raised go to help spread multiculturalism and interculturalism in our communities, through the efforts of Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop / Ricepaper Magazine, Joy Kogawa House, and the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team.
When you come to our Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner event on January 28th, Sunday - please purchase raffle tickets to win: see list of prizes more »
Wednesday, January 24
Media Alert: for Gung Haggis Fat Choy - interviews with Todd Wong on Global TV, The Source and CBC Radio-Canada
by
Todd
on Wed 24 Jan 2007 11:56 PM PST
Today, I spotted the tv interview with Erin Cebula for Global TV's Global Village. Earlier this week, I heard from friends that they had seen it. Great spot! Erin edited in some still pictures of our Gung Haggis Fat Choy performers such as Qiu Xi He of Silk Road Music, and Joe McDonald, bagpiper, cutting up the haggis. They even showed a picture of me with then mayor, Larry Campbell, both wearing kilts and clashing chinese jackets. There was also a sequence with Fiona Tinwei Lam reading her poetry, at the Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night on January 15th, Monday, at the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch. more »
Sandhill Wines becomes the "official wine sponsor" of Gung Haggis Fat Choy
by
Todd
on Wed 24 Jan 2007 10:53 PM PST
The multiple award winning Sandhill Wines was the first BC wine to win a gold medal at the Chardonnay du Monde in France (1999) and a silver medal in 2002. "There were only 2 golds given to Canadian Chard for the first time that year," says Sandhills creator and winemaker Howard Soon, "and only 14 Gold out of a total of about 800 wines entered around the world". ~~~ ~~~ Howard Soon, is the first Chinese-Canadian winemaker and while admitting he is a humble man, he is also very creative. He is also the first winemaker to invite an opera singer (Heather Pawsey) to perform beside giant 100,000 gallon wine tanks. How fitting that Sandhill be the first wine sponsor for Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner. more »
Gung HAGGIS RAP Choy - Robbie Burns Address to a Haggis set to rap music
by
Todd
on Wed 24 Jan 2007 10:10 AM PST
To my dear Scottish Friends...
literary friends...
musical friends...
intercultural friends...
Here is something to welcome Robbie Burns Day Eve.
My new musical gift to the world for Robbie Burns Day: Gung HAGGIS RAP Choy (see MP3 attachment below) more »
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2007 Menu for Gung Haggis Fat Choy™:Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner
by
Todd
on Tue 23 Jan 2007 12:30 AM PST
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. And if you are Ukranian-Italian-Japanese-First Nations... that's alright too!
Here is the menu for 2007, subject to change at my whimsy and the kitchen's demands:
Haggis Dim Sum Appetizer buffet
This will be available upon people's arrival soon after the reception starts after 5:30pm
We have also told the restaurant to have TWO bars open for 5:30pm more »
Saturday, January 20
Vancouver Sun: Todd Wong & Gung Haggis Fat Choy in Malcolm Parry column "Town Talk"
by
Todd
on Sat 20 Jan 2007 11:07 PM PST
Here's what Vancouver Sun's social columnist had to say today:
TODD WONG, the three-decade city assistant librarian, is in the midst of a yearly program that is truly one for the book. It's a Gung Haggis Fat Choy, the mini-festival of the Sino-Scotch arts he launched in 1998 with a Robbie Burns Chinese New Years dinner for 16. Some 500 are expected in the Floata restaurant Jan. 28, when "Toddish McWong" and broad-caster Priya Ramu will emcee at a banquet involving haggis-shrimp dumplings, haggis-stuffed tofu and haggis won ton. Diners and guest artists will also sing Scotland the Brave, My Chow Mein Lies Over the Ocean and other favourites.
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Friday, January 19
Media Alert for Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Global TV with Erin Cebula's Global Village
by
Todd
on Fri 19 Jan 2007 05:36 PM PST
Erin Cebula interviewed me on Monday evening, just prior to the start of the GHFC World Poetry Night at the Vancouver Public Library. I had first met Erin when she was co-hosting Urban Rush on Rogers, in 2004. That interview was all about the then upcoming CBC tv special "Gung Haggis Fat Choy." In 2004, we hosted 2 GHFC dinners on the Saturday and the Sunday, each around 220 to 240 people attending. I brought some haggis won-ton to the show which Erin easily tried... but her co-host Russell took a pass. more »
Media Alert for Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Malcolm Parry in Vancouver Sun
by
Todd
on Fri 19 Jan 2007 05:27 PM PST
Wow! I've finally made the Malcolm Parry society news column.
Mr. Parry came by on Monday to the GHFC World Poetry Night at the Vancouver Public Library, and took a photo of me. more »
Media Alert for Gung Haggis Fat Choy: CFUN's "Best of Food & Wine"
by
Todd
on Fri 19 Jan 2007 05:23 PM PST
Listen to CFUN 1410 AM on your radio, for Saturday 12 noon, January 20.
I will be interviewed by Kasey Wilson (food) and Anthony Gismondi (wine), for their live show Best of Food and Wine. Kasey called me today, and she is thrilled to have me on their show. She loves the intercultural spirit of Gung Haggis Fat Choy and agres that FUN is important. more »
Advance Price for Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner extended to January 22st
by
Todd
on Fri 19 Jan 2007 12:09 PM PST
We have extended the advance pricing for the 2007 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner to Monday, January 22nd.
Regular seats $60 + $5 service charge
Premium seats $70 + $5 service charge (closer seating + 2 bottles of wine at the table) children 13 and under 50% off. more »
Gung Haggis dim sum taste-testing a success!
by
Todd
on Fri 19 Jan 2007 12:00 AM PST
We taste-tested the world's first haggis dim sum tonight. Floata served (to our specifications) deep-fried haggis won-ton, haggis har gau (shrimp dumplings), haggis su mei (pork dumplings) + vegetarian spring rolls. The haggis shrimp dumplings was the best. Very tasty... there were positive compliments right away. Haggis pork dumplings were good too. Har gau shrimp dumplings and su mei pork dumplings are classic cantonese dim sum items. They are not overwhelmed by the addition of the haggis. We asked the restaurant chefs not to put too much haggis in - just enough to give it the taste. People will like these new additions to our culinary menu. more »
Sunday, January 14
CKNW radio interview for Gung Haggis Fat Choy
by
Todd
on Sun 14 Jan 2007 03:01 PM PST
I just did a radio interview with CKNW AM 980 reporter Nafessa Karim.
Nafeesa was really interested in learning how Gung Haggis Fat Choy began as a small dinner with friends, and is growing into a festival. "It's all about community," I told her. "The Gung Haggis concept resonates with people, and they want to be a part of it. In 2004, we paired up with World Poetry Night at Vancouver Public Library, to create an event that celebrates the poetry of Robbie Burns, the traditions of Chinese New Year, plus sharing the work of contemporary Scottish-Canadian and Chinese-Canadian poets. We add in some bapipes and singalongs and everybody has fun. more »
Friday, January 12
2007 GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY press release January 12
by
Todd
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 11:22 PM PST
Culinary surprises await… the world's first haggis dim sum appetizer buffet will greet arriving guests. Imagine haggis shrimp dumplings, haggis spring rolls, haggis-stuffed tofu??? in addition to the now famous haggis won ton!
Sing along to "Scotland the Brave," and Burns' perennial favorite, "Auld Lang Syne;" and the culturally fused "My Chow Mein Lies Over the Ocean," and "When Asian Eyes Are Smiling," plus many more surprises! more »
2007 Menu for Gung Haggis Fat Choy
by
Todd
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 12:29 PM PST
I've always liked watching Monty Python. And it was great to see the CBC tv special Gung Haggis Fat Choy take on a Monty Pythonesque animated sequence when telling the history of Robert Burns. This will be part of the program on January 28th, as we will show excerpts from teh CBC tv special.
As for the dinner menu... we will NOT be serving SPAM. But look for plenty of haggis... more »
Wednesday, January 10
Gung Haggis Fat Choy update for January 10th
by
Todd
on Wed 10 Jan 2007 04:57 PM PST
Just confirmed today... Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan is attending. This will be the second time he has attended as Mayor, in addition to two previous times as a city concillor. Mayor Sullivan definitely has Scottish ancestry... and he's learned to speak Chinese
Haggis is ordered. I really like haggis from Peter Black and Sons, from Park Royal South, in West Vancouver. I have used it every year since 2002. When I don't use it, there's usually complaints. This is a nice spicy family secret recipe. I have never "gagged" on a Peter Black haggis, as I have on other haggis. Peter and family attended last year and had a great time. Peter even gave the Selkirk Grace. more »
Saturday, January 6
What to expect at the Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2007 Dinner
by
Todd
on Sat 06 Jan 2007 12:27 PM PST
Arrive Early: The doors will open by 5:15 pm. All seating is reserved, and all tables are placed in the order that they were ordered (except for special circumstances such as a major sponsor hint hint). We find this is the most fair, and it encourages people to buy their tickets earlier to ensure a table closer to the stage. We expect a rush just prior to the posted 5:30pm reception time. This is the time to go to the bar and get your dram of Glenfiddich or pint of McEwan's Lager - specially ordered for tonight's dinner. Ohhh.... but we might be having a special sponsor for drinks. We're working on it. more »
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