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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2009 TICKETS Available in October 2009 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 In 2004, we presented the debut of Gung Haggis Won-Ton including haggis served with plum or sweet and sour sauces.! For 2005 it was haggis lettuce wrap! 2007 saw the creation of Haggis dim sum appetizer buffet - Watch for more surprises in 2008! On-line tickets at Tickets Tonight - Vancouver's Community Box Office or NEW PHONE NUMBER 604-631-2872 $2.50 extra 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 cell: 778-846-7090 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Sundays 1pm -3pm and Tuesdays 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 over 12 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. We also raced at Harrison Lake and Sea Vancouver regatta. For more information: Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information phone: 778-846-7090 e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GungHaggisFatChoy 2007 Performers
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Thursday, June 7
Janice Wong exhibit of monotypes at the Dundarave Print Workshop Gallery
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Todd
on Thu 07 Jun 2007 01:53 PM PDT
Janice Wong is my famous author/artist 2nd cousin-once-removed. Author of Chow: From China to Canada - Stories of Food and family. She sent me this note: more »
Friday, October 13
Vancouver's Two Solitudes... 2001 Census results: Scottish? Chinese? How many?
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Todd
on Fri 13 Oct 2006 01:52 PM PDT
Vancouver's Two Solitudes...
2001 Census: Scottish? Chinese? How many? Many people ask me why the fascination of Scottish culture, or the unlikely fusion of Scottish and Chinese traditions for Gung Haggis Fat Choy? I usually reply that the Scots and Chinese are really Vancouver's earliest pioneering cultures, along with First Nations of course. I regard the Scots and Chinese as British Columbia's "Two Solitudes," which Wikipedia describes as "A phrase expressing Canada's bilingual and bicultural nature. Traditionally, French and English Canadians have had little to do with each other -- hence the "two solitudes", together but separate, alone but together. The phrase originally comes from Hugh MacLennan's 1945 novel "Two Solitudes" which the McGill-Queens University Press describes as " "A landmark of
nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes is the story of two
races within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a
nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in prewar
Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the
prejudices that surround them until they discover that "love consists
in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other."
According to the 2001 Census results for Vancouver. The top ten total responses for ethnic origins were: Total population: 1,967,480 English 475,075 Canadian 378,545 Chinese 347,985 Scottish 311,940 Irish 234,680 German 187,410 East Indian 142,060 French 128,715 Ukrainian 76,525 Italian 69,000 These results are for people who checked these responses in the ethnicity box. In reality they could choose as many boxes as applied to them, or as they wanted. But ideally, these are the people who most count English, Chinese, Scottish as the ancestry. Of people who selected only one ethnic group the results are: Total responses: 1,226,280 Chinese 312,180 East Indian 123,570 Canadian 141,110 English 112,910 Filipino 48,510 German 44,470 Scottish 41,920 Italian 29,665 Korean 27,745 Irish 23,125 Dutch (Netherlands) 21,115 These are the people who chose only one ethnicity. These numbers also would most likely represent the newest immigrant groups. People who checked "Canadian" most likely did so, because they did not want to be defined by "ethnic origin" or simply didn't have a clue as to what to check. Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson admitted that she checked "Canadian" even though it is documented and widely known that she was born in Hong Kong. Now it gets more interesting with people who chose multiple ethnic boxes. Groups below can be said to represent the groups that have inter-married most with a different ethnic culture. Although this could be misleading if you lump English, Scottish and Irish together as "British"- just make sure you don't separate them into Catholic and Prostestant because some Irish Catholics would be more likely to marry a Filipino Catholic rather than an Irish Protestant. But in Canada, we are all "Canadian" and the great thing is we are more likely to be open-minded about race, religion, and culture.... aren't we? Total responses: 741,195 English 362,165 Scottish 270,020 Canadian 237,435 Irish 211,555 German 142,945 French 113,655 Ukranian 58,375 Dutch (Netherlands) 46,050 Italian 39,335 Polish 36,760 Nowegian 35,735 Chinese 35,800 East Indian 18,495 Thursday, July 13
GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: The CBC TV special - summaries and video clip - view the origin of Gung Haggis Fat Choy and Toddish McWong
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Todd
on Thu 13 Jul 2006 06:23 PM PDT
Robbie Burns Day meets Chinese New Year. Two separate cultures. Nothing in common. Everything in common. ~~~ Summary of the CBC TV special, based on Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner: Gung Haggis Fat Choy. ~~~ This article features summaries of each segment of the special + links
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Saturday, December 31
Happy Hogmanay - listening to BBC Radio Scotland Live!
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Todd
on Sat 31 Dec 2005 04:07 PM PST
 Happy Hogmanay - listening to BBC Radio Scotland Live! It's almost midnight in Scotland. I am listening live to BBC Radio Scotland, as they count down the minutes. 15 minutes ago when I tuned in, they were playing Elvis Presley, followed by Dolly Parton's "9 to 5".... then there was Tom Jones... Now they are going live to Edinburgh.... A pipe major plays the bagpipes. There is a countdown.... 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... Then everybody sings a song - what is it?? It's not Auld Lang Syne!?!?! It's some song about Happy New Year! The hosts come back and ramble on like New Year's hosts do... They pop a champagne cork. Now I hear accordion music... sounds like a polka - no it's not. It's some song about Caledonia... I've never heard it before. "Come in, come in...here's my hand..." Oh - it's Andy Stewart... whoever he is... Now they thank Radio Scotland listeners from around the world. Oh- here's a song I recognize. "I Would Walk 500 Miles" by the Proclaimers. This reminds me of the 2003 GHFC dinner when my musician buddies Pat Coventon and pd wohl played their own version with a "Eat Haggis" bridge, and words about Toddish McWong. Happy New Year everybody!!!! Tuesday, November 29
Toddish McWong on BBC Radio Scotland: Check it out on-line
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Todd
on Tue 29 Nov 2005 01:52 PM PST
 Toddish McWong on BBC Radio Scotland - Check it out on-line "Toddish McWong" or in Canadian, Todd Wong, is featured on BBC Radio Scotland on the radio Scotland website.
Just click on programs - go to "Scotland Licked" - then wait awhile until you hear the voice of host Maggie Shiels. Listen to the introductions where she talks about finding me in Canada - then click on the 15 minute fast forward button. I will be heard very very soon.... The interview explores the origins of my Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese New Year dinner event, and the haggis-Chinese fusion food that we have created for it. The crew said that I definitely had
a "Canadian accent" - Funny because my girlfriend said that she loved
"Maggie's" liting "Scottish accent."
St. Andrew's Day is in honour of the Patron Saint of Scotland - that's the reason Maggie came looking for me - to find out what I had done with "their haggis". Simply wrapped it in won ton wrappings and added waterchestnuts, deep fried and dipped in sweet and sour sauce. I also describe the haggis lettuce wrap. Then Maggie asked what I had done to the Robbie Burns poem - "Address to the Haggis"? I told her that we "updated" it... and proceeded to "rap" it. I think for the January 22nd, I will have performer Rick Scott sing along with me to "The Haggis wRap!" Slainte! Happy St. Andrew's Day (January 30th) Thursday, July 21
Does "haggis won ton" translate into french? The Source interview for Gung Haggis Fat Choy January 2005
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Todd
on Thu 21 Jul 2005 11:07 PM PDT
Early in January 2005, I did an interview for The Source, a bilingual newspaper in Vancouver. Nigel Barbour met me at Library Square and we chatted at Guttenberg's... more »
Friday, January 28
"Gung Haggis Fat Choy" poem by Todd Wong
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Todd
on Fri 28 Jan 2005 10:49 AM PST
What is Gung Haggis Fat Choy?
This is a poem I wrote last year while we were doing development for the CBC tv special "Gung Haggis Fat Choy." It wasn't used in the special, but I have read it at poetry readings, last year's dinner, and I will read it today at Simon Fraser University for the opening of the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy "Canadian Games." more »
Friday, January 16
Sunday, January 4
2004 Gung Haggis Fat Choy poster Lion head mask with kilt
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Todd
on Sun 04 Jan 2004 12:38 AM PST
2004 Gung Haggis Fat Choy poster. Designed by Honey Mae of Azimuth Designs. Photo by Don Montgomery. This poster is lots of fun. I think it really captures the essence of Gung Haggis Fat Choy. Definitely something old, something new, something borrowed, something wacky! Yes... that is me, Toddish McWong, the man beneath the mask.  1 AttachmentsWednesday, December 10
Todd's smart cross-cultural outfit - The finest in kilts and dragons
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Roland Tanglao
on Wed 10 Dec 2003 05:01 PM PST
Thursday, December 4
Wednesday, December 3
Gung Haggis Fat Choy - a Poem by Todd Wong
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Todd
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 08:15 AM PST
Gung Haggis Fat Choy By Todd Wong What is Gung Haggis Fat Choy? It is the inter-section of Chinese and Scottish cultures. In a new land, In a new voice, In a new vision. It is Gung Hay Fat Choy; the traditional Chinese New Year greeting meaning "Longevity and Fortune." It is Robbie Burns Day; the celebration of the Scottish poet Robbie Burns, and all things Scottish… including the national dish of haggis: Oatmeal and sheep organs mixed together and cooked in the stomach of a sheep Just like some perverse mix of multi-culturalism. Re-constructed Re-constituted Re-gurgitated Gung Haggis Fat Choy! The Chinese called this land Gum San (Gold Mountain) And the Scots gave it the name of Nova Scotia Westerners became Easterners The Far East becomes the Far West Gung Haggis Fat Choy! It is the play on words. It is the play on cultures It is the play of time and place. It is simply the play of Canadians… Gung Haggis Fat Choy! Something Old Something New Something Borrowed Something B-r-e-w-e-d… Gung Haggis Fat Choy! It's quirky It's surprising It's enlightening And arising… Gung Haggis Fat Choy! It's a vision It's a belief What you see is what you get. And you don't get what you can't see. Ó 2003 Todd Wong |
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