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!

[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.

[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.

[TheKiltedWonder]

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.

Come on, insulting mainstream American beer is like shooting fish in a barrel. It's just not sporting. Canadian beer is pretty good, but I prefer imports from a bit further afield.

And thanks for mentioning Red Green, AA. I haven't seen that show in ages!

[Raphael]

Do you think the Canadian Haggis is better than the American Haggis? Do you think we should have a Haggis cook off at Toddish's Dinner?

[auld argonian]

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

Where were you up until recently?

I remember one of the great lines that Red Green had when they did a PBS telethon here in the USA to get support for the Red Green Show...which only shows up on US PBS stations...

Red (Steve Smith) was pitching for donations and said, "...why don't some of you Americans make yourselves look like big spenders and pledge one thousand dollars Canadian? That's only, like, twenty bucks in your money, right?"

Me, I'd love to get back to Vancouver. I still wanted to stop in the "Looney Plus" store but my family was rushing me along the last time we were there. And I'd love to get back the the Vancouver Art Gallery...it's in my top ten.

Best

AA