Gung Haggis Fat Choy — Sunday, January 26, 2025, 12.00pm

JOIN US for this cosmic countdown to start your year! Enjoy an evening of intercultural fusion at Gung Haggis 2025 with food, music, readings, and scotch!

This year’s schedule of events include:

  • A dinner menu with the now world-renowned haggis wonton
  • More readings, more music, and more fun!
  • sneak peak of the menu from previous Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinners

About Gung Haggis:

It was 1998, and as the Chinese Lunar New Year fell only two days away from Robbie Burns Day, which is always January 25, Todd decided to celebrate the Scottish Bard’s birthday along with the Lunar New Year. “Gung Haggis Fat Choy!” said Wong, “I can celebrate two cultures at the same time.” And thus was born the Vancouver cultural premiere that culinary and media personalities have come to celebrate this cultural mashup that features deep-fried haggis wontons, haggis dim sum, and haggis lettuce wrap with a glass of scotch each year.

Gung Haggis Fat Choy started Twenty years later, it serves dinner at the biggest Chinese Restaurant in North America and has spun off a CBC television performance special and the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Canadian Games.as a small fundraiser of 16 people in 1998 in a crowded living room. Twenty years later it serves dinner at the biggest Chinese Restaurant in North America, and has spun off a CBC television performance special, and the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Canadian Games.


“Gung Haggis Fat Choy is the ultimate fusion feast.” – Georgia Straight

“Haggis wontons? Robbie Burns Night meets Chinese New Year.” – Globe & Mail

“Gung Haggis Fat Choy: This Canadian Celebration Combines Robert Burns Night and Chinese New Year.” – Smithsonian

“Haggis and Chow Mein Collide at Seattle’s Gung Haggis Fat Choy.” – Vice

“Hold the sheep’s stomach lining.” – MacLean’s Magazine

For more information, visit https://www.gunghaggis.com/.Join us for an afternoon of intercultural fusion at Gung Haggis 2024 with food, music, and poetry!


Tickets are available for individual purchase or a table of 10!

LiterASIAN 2024 — (Re)Dress

Embarking on a poignant literary exploration of Canada’s historical tapestry, this year’s festival examines the challenges and successes of the meaning of redress.  Join us for a compassionate and informative literary dialogue, where writers will explore the importance of amplifying Asian Canadian voices, promoting cultural understanding, and fostering a society that embraces diversity with open arms. This literary festival is an invitation to collectively embark on a journey of reconciliation, where acknowledgment, education, and empathy pave the way toward a more equitable and inclusive Canada.

Gung Haggis Fat Choy — Sunday, January 28, 2024, 12.00pm

Join us for an afternoon of intercultural fusion at Gung Haggis 2024 with food, music, and poetry!

Food Menu:

  • A selection of dim sum
  • Including our deep-fried haggis wonton dumplings
  • Traditional Scottish-Cdn haggis served with traditional Chinese-Canadian lettuce wrap
  • Chinese chicken wings
  • Chow Mein/Long Life Noodles
  • Dessert

Tickets are available for individual purchase or a table of 8!

2024 Asian Heritage Month’s Pan-Asian Recognition Award Winner is . . .

With friends Carol Hamshaw (President of VAHMS, Ujjal Dosanjh, Eric Li, Effie Pow, and Wiley Ho

Honourees for the Pan-Asian Recognition Awards are selected for:
• Leadership or support for Pan-Asian arts, education, or culture
• Significant contribution towards social integration of Asian-Canadian communities through cross-cultural, or multicultural exchange
• Achievement or contributions to promote Pan-Asian cultural heritage
• Enhancement of multicultural identity, education, or experience through cultural or artistic expression
• Collaboration with individuals or institutions promoting the advancement of inclusive learning

Other winners: Mena Film Festival and Kasandra La China

Robbie Burns Gung Haggis Fat Choy Returns with Haggis Dim Sum for 2023!

Floata Restaurant,180 Keefer Street, Vancouver Chinatown
FREE PARKING

Reception 11:30 am.
The show starts 12 noon and end at 2pm.

Food Menu:

  • a selection of dim sum
  • including our deep-fried haggis wonton dumplings
  • traditional Scottish-Cdn haggis served with traditional Chinese-Canadian lettuce wrap
  • Chinese chicken wings
  • Chow Mein/Long Life Noodles 
  • dessert.

Come join us for an afternoon of Poetry, Music, Video . . . and some more surprises!  

Ticket registration here

Gung Haggis Fat Choy makes #5 on the list for Global Burns Facts from the HistoryScotland.com website!

The History Scotland.com website lists 10 “facts you (probably) didn’t know about Burns Night, celebrated around the world on 25 January in memory of poet Robert Burns.”

#5.  Since 1999, the ‘Gung Haggis Fat Choy’ takes place in Vancouver, Canada. This multicultural event, blending Burns Night and Chinese New Year, features Scottish and Chinese poetry as well as a very rare delicacy – Haggis & Shrimp Wonton Dumplings. 

Gung Haggis Fat Choy often gets attention from Scotland.  Earlier this month, founder Todd Wong was asked by a BBC World News program for an interview for the travel program.  In past years, he has often been interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland. A few years ago, the Burns Birthplace Museum even posted an article about GHFC in Vancouver.

https://www.historyscotland.com/history/ten-global-burns-supper-facts/?fbclid=IwAR35tcnKn7OaPfpqyRfyQiO6xwqvHv570-sy6hsmeSdQEc549No3KxxSDeI

Opening Night of CHINATOWN September 13, 2022 at the Vancouver Playhouse

Allan Cho, Executive Director of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), author Paul Yee, and Todd (me)

13 – 17 September 2022. Vancouver Playhouse

CITY OPERA announces the cast, directors, designers, dates, and tickets for the world premiere opera

Librettist: Madeleine Thien
Composer: Alice Ping Yee Ho
Hoisan translator: Paul Yee

The cast of CHINATOWN is Spencer Britten, Saihin • Vania Chan, Wen-li • Erica Iris Huang, Hoisan Singer

Derek Kwan Eugene • Matthew Li, Xon Pon, Emma Parkinson, Anna

artistic and design team for CHINATOWN is:

Mary Chun, Music Director, and Conductor
Debi Wong, Stage Director

Trudy Chalmers, Producer
David Kerr, Production Manager
Camellia Koo, Set Design
John Webber, Lighting Design
Charlotte Chang, Costume Design
James Nesbitt, Projection Design
Alessandro Juliani, Sound Design
Estella Lum, Graphic Design
Roger Parton, Music Editor, Principal Coach and Pianist
Susan Ma, Community Engagement Coordinator
Victoria Wilcott, General Manager

Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2022 – A Scottish-Asian Tradition Virtually

It was 1998 and as the Chinese Lunar New Year fell only two days away from Robbie Burns Day, which is always January 25, Todd decided to celebrate the Scottish Bard’s birthday along with the Lunar New Year. “Gung Haggis Fat Choy!” said Wong, “I can celebrate two cultures at the same time.” And thus was born the Vancouver cultural premiere that culinary and media personalities have come to celebrate this cultural mashup that features deep-fried haggis wontons, haggis dim sum, and haggis lettuce wrap with a glass of scotch each year. Gung Haggis Fat Choy started out as a small fundraiser of 16 people in 1998 in a crowded living room. Twenty years later it serves dinner at the biggest Chinese Restaurant in North America, and has spun off a CBC television performance special, and the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Canadian Games. in almost all the food that we normally serve at a GHFC Banquet Dinner.  

This year our performers include:

Songs we’ll singalong to:

  • Michael & Rosie will perform a traditional Robbie Burns song.
  • BRAND NEW!  Todd Wong’s performance of Address to a Haggis, set to a Johnny Cash tune.
  • Auld Lang Syne (original lyrics by Robbie Burns – lyrics in Chinese (found somewhere on the internet)