Toddish McWong’s Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner

[northernsky]

Anyone in the Vancouver, Canada region really shouldn't miss this. If you want a ticket let me know and I can save you one at my table at a discount.

10th Anniversary
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Toddish McWong’s Robbie Burns
Chinese New Year Dinner Spectacular

January 28th, Sunday,
5:30pm reception and appetizers
6:00 dinner
Floata Restaurant
#400 – 180 Keefer Street
Vancouver Chinatown

A quirky fusion/mix/buffet of Scottish Canadian and Chinese Canadian culture featuring a 10 course Chinese banquet dinner including deep-fried haggis won ton, and accompanied by music and poetry performances embracing and defying Canada’s unique Scottish-Chinese heritage.

10 years, 12 dinners, 3000 people, Vancouver, Seattle + TV special

Who would have thought that 16 people in 1998 in a crowded living room started a tradition that now serves 500 people at the biggest Chinese Restaurant in North America, and has spun off a CBC television performance special, and the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Festival.

Creator Todd Wong has been interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland, local and national media. In 2007, with bagpiper Joe McDonald and hip hop master Trevor Chan, they created Gung Haggis RAP Choy, a rapper’s reading of Robbie Burns’ immortal “Address to a Haggis.”

Today Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a fundraiser event for Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, and Historic Joy Kogawa House Society. Gung Haggis Dragon Boat team, – helping to create positive examples of inter-culturalism in our community!

Ever had Haggis Dim Sum appetizers?

This is the event that put deep-fried haggis won-ton on the map, and created a haggis dim sum appetizer buffet in 2007. Imagine haggis-stuffed shrimp dumplings and haggis spring rolls.

Sing along to "Scotland the Brave," and Burns’ perennial favorite, "Auld Lang Syne;” and the culturally fused "My Chow Mein Lies Over the Ocean," and "When Asian Eyes Are Smiling," plus many more surprises!

Featured performers for 2008 include:
celtic band Blackthorn, Vancouver poet Laureate George McWhirter, bagpiper Joeseph McDonald and Brave Waves + many special and surprise guest performers!

Gung Haggis Fat Choy does more than mix East and West. It blends them together and turns them upside down and sideways. It highlights Canada's Scottish and Chinese heritage and pioneers. It breaks down barriers and is an impressive forum for the emerging intercultural Canada where everybody can claim and celebrate Chinese and Scottish culture and everything in-between.

[Amoskeag]

Sounds fun. Bizarre, but fun! Actually haggis won tons sound pretty good.
Bob

[Mr. MacDougall]

Oh, man that sounds like my kind of party! Too bad it's so far away!

[Raphael]

I will be there!!! Save me a seat!

[Oldhiker]

has this also spilled over into a Seattle event? if so when & how do i get tickets??

[TheKiltedWonder]

Oh, man that sounds like my kind of party! Too bad it's so far away!

Agreed! How come Canadians get the good dollar AND all the fun

[Livingston]

Once again ... wishing I lived in the Pacific Northwest. I see this post each year and drool.

[northernsky]

Well, come on up. We're a friendly lot. Plenty of beds available. And you gotta try Haggis won-ton!

[Howard Clark]

Sounds like my kind of people, irreverent ! I wish I was closer too.

[McMurdo]

Agreed! How come Canadians get the good dollar AND all the fun

We always had fun, but that's just because our beer is better, and don't blame us for our higher dollar, you guys keep voting George Bush into office.