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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, March 24
Gung Haggis Fat Choy goes Californian in Santa Barbara, this Vancouver idea really goes south!
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Todd
on Mon 24 Mar 2008 11:59 PM PDT
Gung Haggis Fat Choy is spreading to California. 2008 marks a suprise appearance in Santa Barbara. ..... I guess it was a clandestine Gung Haggis Fat California event. I hope I can get invited to the next Santa Barbara "Gung Haggis inspired event." I like Santa Barbara. It's nice and sunny. Okay... I haven't been there since 1989, after driving up the coast from Los Angeles after visiting Disneyland. I wonder if they have any dragon boat races in Santa Barbara?
Check out this newsletter and report from:
http://www.scottishsocietysantabarbara.org/recent.html more »
Thursday, March 13
Courier: Wong celebrates Celtic Fest's kilty pleasures
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Todd
on Thu 13 Mar 2008 01:18 PM PDT
Last week the Vancouver Courier interviewed me for a Celtic Fest story about tonight's Battle of the Bards. Photographer Dan Toulgoet met me at the Robert Burns statue in Stanley Park, which had been erected 80 years ago.
It's always interesting to find out how other people perceive Gung Haggis Fat Choy, and what they think about my persona as "Toddish McWong." more »
Tuesday, March 4
From the Brunei Times to the Scottish Sunday Post, Toddish McWong is becoming known the world, o'er
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Todd
on Tue 04 Mar 2008 11:57 PM PST
The Brunei Times printed a wire story and titled Gung Haggis bridging the ethnic gap written by Deborah Jones of Vancouver for the Associated Press. And we made the Weyak World News in the Arab Emirates Scottish bagpipese usher in Canada's multi-ethnic Chinese New Year more »
Saturday, March 1
Who was the first Chinese hockey player in the NHL? Tom Hawthorn tells the story.
by
Todd
on Sat 01 Mar 2008 12:46 AM PST
Ever watch the Tim Horton hockey dad commercial featuring a Chinese Canadian grandpa telling his son that he did pay attention?
When I first spoke with actor Russell Jung, I asked him "Who was the first Chinese hockey player in the NHL?" "Larry Kwong," answered Russell. Read my 2006 story about my the Tim Horton's hockey dad commercial with a comment by actor Russell Jung http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/17/1769127.html Kwong played in the 1947 NHL season - 11 years before Willie O'Ree became the first black player in the NHL. Long before Paul Kariya became the first Asian hockey star player. The Asian North America Timeline Project lists this under 1947: During the 1947-48 season, Larry ('King') Kwong is the first Chinese Canadian to play in the NHL as a member of the New York Rangers Hockey Club. Also known as the 'China Clipper' during an illustrious juniors and seniors hockey career in B.C., Kwong went on to become Assistant Captain of the Valleyfield Braves in the Quebec Senior Hockey League where he led the team to a Canadian Senior Championship and received the Byng of Vimy award for sportsmanship. Kwong later accepted an offer to play hockey in England and coach in Lausanne, Switzerland. He would spend the next 15 years in Europe as a hockey and tennis coach. In 1972, Kwong returned to Canada and is now the President of Food Vale in Calgary. Last month Tom Hawthorn wrote an incredible story in the Globe and Mail about the Vernon BC, born Larry Kwong. Check out Tom's story on his blog "One Minute to Make History" http://www.tomhawthorn.com/?a=37 Then check out his writing buddy Terry Glavin's blog, about Tom's story. The Story of Larry Kwong: Bellhop, Shipyard Worker, Grocer, Hockey Player, Hero. Terry even throws in a mention about Gung Haggis Fat Choy and Toddish McWong. I emailed Tom Hawthorn asking for Larry Kwong's contact information, because Russell Jung wanted to meet him. Tom obliged and wrote back to me: Good to hear from you. I wrote a story about you and Gung Haggis Fat Choy many, many years ago in the Province. Glad to see you've spread it around the globe. I sent back a link to Tom, showing that a Feb 7 wire service story by Deborah Jones was printed in the Brunei Times: 'Gung Haggis' bridging the ethnic gap Small world, isn't it? |
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