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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

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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

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Fiona Wong - contemporary Rock/Pop/folk
Generasian - David Wong & Family
Jamie Giffiths - multimedia artist
Janice Wong author of "CHOW"
Jeff Chiba Stearns - Animator
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Joseph Wu's Origami as Art
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Gung Haggis Fat Choy - Media Stories
GHFC World Poetry Night
Origins of Gung Haggis Fat Choy
CBC TV Special "Gung Haggis Fat Choy"
SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy "Canadian Games"
Dragon Boat Information
Gung Haggis dragon boat team information
Joy Kogawa & Kogawa House
Upcoming Events
Recent Reviews
Chinese Canadian History
Chinese Head Tax issues + Gim Wong's Ride for Redress
Rev. Chan Legacy Project
Kilts
Photos
St. Patrick's Day Parade
Terry Fox
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Multicultural events
Visual Art and related events
One Book One Vancouver: Joy Kogawa's Obasan
Vancouver Area Adventures
Vancouver Heritage and History
Astrology: John Rutherford's Check Your Chart
2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner Jan 22
Food & Restaurants
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Photos 2006
Robbie Burns Day
Joy Kogawa & Kogawa House2
Joy Kogawa & Kogawa House3
Saltwater City Television: Chinese-Canadian issues
Gung Haggis dragon boat team information/2006 photos
Head Tax Redress
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Head T
Canada Day
Kilts Night
Travels
Kalamalka Lake
Rev. Chan family
Remembrance Day
Canadian Identity
Canadian Identity & Heritage
2007 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner Jan 28
Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner 2007
Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner 20072
Hapa culture
Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry
SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Photos 2007
Seattle Gung Haggis 2007
Gung Haggis dragon boat team information/2007 photos
Food
Asian Heritage Month
Literary events 2007+
Kogawa House 2007+
Kilts Night2
Kilts Night photos
James Erlandsen - leukemia fighter
GENERATIONS: The Chan Legacy
CUPE 391
CUPE 3912
Library Strike
Accordions
Music
origami
Theatre
Cultural Fusion
2008 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner Jan 27
Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC events
Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner 2008
2008
Seattle Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Ron MacLeod report
Travel reports
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Main Page
 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner
 GHFC 2006
 Gung Haggis Fat Choy - Media Stories
 GHFC World Poetry Night
 Origins of Gung Haggis Fat Choy
 CBC TV Special "Gung Haggis Fat Choy"
 SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy "Canadian Games"
 Dragon Boat Information
 Gung Haggis dragon boat team information
 Joy Kogawa & Kogawa House
 Upcoming Events
 Recent Reviews
 Chinese Canadian History
 Chinese Head Tax issues + Gim Wong's Ride for Redress
 Rev. Chan Legacy Project
 Kilts
 Photos
 St. Patrick's Day Parade
 Terry Fox
 Commentaries
 Literary Events
 Multicultural events
 Visual Art and related events
 One Book One Vancouver: Joy Kogawa's Obasan
 Vancouver Area Adventures
 Vancouver Heritage and History
 Astrology: John Rutherford's Check Your Chart
 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner Jan 22
 Food & Restaurants
 photos/2006
 Photos 2006
 Robbie Burns Day
 Joy Kogawa & Kogawa House2
 Joy Kogawa & Kogawa House3
 Saltwater City Television: Chinese-Canadian issues
 Gung Haggis dragon boat team information/2006 photos
 Head Tax Redress
 Food and cooking
 Photos/Arts Events 2006
 Head T
 Canada Day
 Kilts Night
 Travels
 Kalamalka Lake
 Rev. Chan family
 Remembrance Day
 Canadian Identity
 Canadian Identity & Heritage
 2007 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner Jan 28
 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner 2007
 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner 20072
 Hapa culture
 Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry
 SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy
 Photos 2007
 Seattle Gung Haggis 2007
 Gung Haggis dragon boat team information/2007 photos
 Food
 Asian Heritage Month
 Literary events 2007+
 Kogawa House 2007+
 Kilts Night2
 Kilts Night photos
 James Erlandsen - leukemia fighter
 GENERATIONS: The Chan Legacy
 CUPE 391
 CUPE 3912
 Library Strike
 Accordions
 Music
 origami
 Theatre
 Cultural Fusion
 2008 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner Jan 27
 Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC events
 Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner 2008
 2008
 Seattle Gung Haggis Fat Choy
 Ron MacLeod report
 Travel reports
Recent Photos

Chinese Canadian wedding day photo of Ernest and Kate Chan Lee, with Mrs. Chan Yu Tan and Kate's youngest sister Millicent - circa 1907 - courtesty of Rev. Chan family archives

Todd Wong receives BC Community Achievement Award from Lt. Gov. Stephen Point and Premier Gordon Campbell

Gary Geddes winner of the 5th annual Lt. Gov Literary Achievment Award - courtesy of BC Book Prizes

Vancouver Sun: Raymond Louie and his Chinese supporters, Todd Wong is on far left - photo Bill Keay Vancouver Sun

Heather Pawsey, Todd Wong and Rachel Iwassa - photo Tim Pawsey
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Recent Articles
Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team is racing May 17th at Burnaby's Barnet Marine Park
Freedom Writers teacher Erin Grewell speaks in Vancouver area at River Rock Casino
"Tailor Made" wins Golden Rell Award for Best Short Film
LET'S ELECT VANCOUVER'S 1ST DRAGON BOAT MAYOR - RAYMOND LOUIE
Jason Kenney announces $5 Million for Chinese-Canadian community-based commemorative and educational projects related to immigration restrictions (re: head tax and exclusion act)
Bill Reid Gallery opens in Vancouver, the great iconic Haida artist is
Wallace Chung collection at UBC: A national treasure about immigration to BC
Asian Comedy Night returns - May 9 & 10 at the Roundhouse
Gung Haggis dragon boat team performing well in race pieces
Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal: Mayor of Lytton meets "Toddish McWong" at BC Community Achievement Awards
MAY is Asian Heritage month: Canadian Immigrant magazine interviews Todd Wong
Love your neighborhood: take in a Jane's Walk
Good Asian Drivers Tour comes to Vancouver and Richmond
Vancouver Courier: Burning Passion story features Winter Solstice creator Naomi Singer
Korea report from Barb Waldern: May Day and Korean Western weddings
Recent Reviews
Italian Girl delights opera audience - but BC's best kept secret is bass Randall Jakobsh as Mustafa
Norah Jones is stunning in Vancouver - plays electric guitar
Dadawa in Vancouver: mesmirizing Asian world music
Jen Sookfong Lee featured at CBC Radio Studio One Book Club - we check it out!
Vancouver Opera's Macbeth: Italian opera based on an English play about Scottish ambitions
Recent Comments
Re: Gung Haggis dragon boat team performing well in race pieces
Re: Love your neighborhood: take in a Jane's Walk
New project for you, Todd: Reduce the rice supersizing in Chinese Restaurants
Re: Bone Marrow transplant needed for James Lee Erlandsen... searching for Eurasian donors
Re: Prime Minister Harper comes to Vancouver Chinatown and announces "Head Tax payments soon" - dialogue with which Chinese-Canadians?
Recent Music Reviews
Italian Girl delights opera audience - but BC's best kept secret is bass Randall Jakobsh as Mustafa
Norah Jones is stunning in Vancouver - plays electric guitar
Dadawa in Vancouver: mesmirizing Asian world music
Vancouver Opera's Macbeth: Italian opera based on an English play about Scottish ambitions
Flamenco at the Cafe de Chinitas: Inspired performance by Mozaico Flamenco and Orchid Ensemble