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By BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS | |||
Who says there's no free lunch? Full Story
Haggis, Scotland's national dish, was served yesterday to all comers at Simon Fraser University's Robbie Burns Day celebration on Burnaby Mountain.
Scotland's national poet, born Jan. 25, 1759, inspires annual ceremonies worldwide with pipers, dancers and the traditional Address to a Haggis ritual. SFU's had a unique made- in-B.C. flavour, thanks to Todd Wong.
Wong's 10th annual Gung Haggis Fat Choy banquet, celebrating Burns and the coming Chinese lunar New Year, is Sunday at Chinatown's Floata restaurant. Yesterday's second annual Gung Haggis Fat Choy Highland Games featured human curling and dragon cart races.
"The first solitudes of Vancouver and B.C. were not English and French, they were Scottish and Chinese," said Wong, a fifth-generation Chinese-Canadian and proud kilt-wearer known as "Toddish McWong" at this time of year.
