What: 10th Anniversary
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns
Chinese New Year Dinner Spectacular
WHEN: Sunday, January 27th, 2008
TIME: 5:30 P.M. reception and appetizers; 6:00 P.M. dinner
WHERE: Floata Restaurant #400 – 180 Keefer Street, Vancouver Chinatown
TICKETS: Adult: $64.50; Students: $54.00; Children (13 and under): $43.50
CONTACT: Tickets available at Tickets Tonight. Call Gung Haggis Fat Choy Productions at 604-987-7124 by January 20 to reserve a table for 10.
FEATURING: Celtic Band Blackthorn, Vancouver poet Laureate George McWhirter, bagpiper Joeseph McDonald and Brave Waves + many special and surprise guest performers!
OTHER:
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!
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.
January 25th, 2008. SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Canadian Games at the SFU Convocation Mall, Burnaby Campus – Look for Dragon Cart racing, Haggis eating contest + human curling event.
January 28th, 2008. Gung Haggis Fat Choy World Poetry Night Vancouver Public Library – featuring bagpipes, Swedish-Chinese-Scottish-Irish-Canadian poet Fred Wah + Vancouver Poet Laureate George McWhirter + singalongs.
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