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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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Friday, January 26
SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Festival - Dragon Cart Races + Human Curling
by
Todd
on Fri 26 Jan 2007 11:36 AM PST
Human curling made it's world debut as the first event of the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Festival. Car tires were fitted onto a wooden platform with roller wheels, and floated easily across the SFU Convecation Mall towards a target with points. Human contestants sat upon each "rock" as their team mates gave a good push to launch them towards the target.
It was all part of the 2nd annual SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Festival, which aims to bring the growing Asian student population together with Simon Fraser University's Scottish traditions. Rather than create a traditional "Highland Games" the SFU Recreation department approached SFU alumni Todd Wong, to help them create a culturally inclusive and interactive new approach. more »
Monday, January 22
SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Festival - Dragon Cart Races + Human Curling
by
Todd
on Mon 22 Jan 2007 11:40 PM PST
I was approached by the SFU Recreation Department way back in Fall 2004, to help them create an event that would bring the large Asian student population together with the university's Scottish traditions. Voila - SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy "Canadian Games" was created! And Dragon Cart racing was born! ~~~~~ 2 years later... Dragon Cart racing returns to Convecation Mall at SFU's Burnaby Mountain Campus, and it is joined by "Human Curling" and an attempt to set a record for the largest number of people eating haggis at one time. I will be MC for the ceremonies, and the play by play announcer for the Dragon Cart races. more »
Saturday, June 18
Saturday, January 29
Vancouver Sun prints picture of SFU's Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ Dragoncart racing
by
Todd
on Sat 29 Jan 2005 09:40 AM PST
Dragoncart racing made it's debut
at the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy™ "Canadian Games" on Friday January 28th. The Vancouver Sun captured the "Gung Haggis FAS Choy" team in action on page B1 on today's (Jan 29) Vancouver Sun. The caption reads: "It's Gung Haggis Fat Choy (that's what they call it) on Friday at Simon Fraser University, when Scottish Robbie Burns Day traditions mix with Chinese New Year rituals. To mark the occasion this team from the faculty of applied science propels its dragoncart with crutches and much enthusiasm in a race down Convocation Mall. They finished second." CITY TV and Channel M also shot camera footage - I missed it on last night's news - did anybody see it? please comment! Wednesday, January 26
Dragonboat Go-Carts arrive at SFU for intramural "Canadian Games"
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Todd
on Wed 26 Jan 2005 11:54 PM PST
The first ever Dragon-carts or dragon boat go-carts, arrived at Simon
Fraser University today. These are proto-types created by Bob
Brinson, a coach with the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team, and a
former carpenter with CBC TV. Bob also recently re-finished the
original teak dragon boats donated to Vancouver during Expo 86.
The Dragon-carts sit on 3 wheels and are built on top of a 4'x8' plywood base, 3/4 inch thick. The sides are slightly curved like a boats hull. They will seat 6 paddlers + steersperson. Presently they look like a wooden bathtub - but once we paint them and build heads and tails - they will be beautiful! Our first experience "paddling" them was lots of fun. Bob and I used aluminum crutches as "paddles" and got some good speed in the warehouse. Up at SFU with 5 or 7 people the go-cart was much slower as all the weight puts much more pressure on the rubber inflated tires. This will not be an easy push in the park for the neophyte racers, as it took a lot of effort to move the 1200 pounds of people we were carrying. SFU intramural hopes that the Dragon-Cart races will become a unique marquee event for the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy "Canadian Games." Each year we can add another "sporting event" and build up the games as a multicultural event, while encouraging students and faculty to participate in both fun and physical exercise oriented activities. photos to follow soon...
Win tickets for Gung Haggis Fat Choy, by naming the dragonboat go-cart for SFU's Gung Haggis Fat Choy "Canadian Games"
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Todd
on Wed 26 Jan 2005 01:45 AM PST
Win Tickets to
attend Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Dinner -
January 30th, 2005, at Floata Restaurant in Vancouver's Chinatown.
We need help naming our Dragoncarts for the First Annual Gung Haggis Fat Choy Canadian Games. Read more to find out details on this exciting contest or check out the whole event. Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Canadian Games NOON Convocation Mall
EXCITING "Name the Dragoncarts" CONTEST
An additional perk to being participants in the First Annual Gung Haggis Fat Choy Canadian Games is the chance to name the Dragoncarts. SFU
Recreation has had two Dragoncarts built for the inaugural Gung Haggis
Fat Choy Canadian Games. These two dragon carts will be used for years
to come as part of the annual Gung Haggis festivities here at SFU.
Possible suggestions: 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 »
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