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Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2024 — Celebrating 25 years together . . .
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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
LiterASIAN Writers Festival 2023 Returns!
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.
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:
- City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam – will read a poem “in response to Burns“
- Author Janie Chang will read a Lunar New Year scene from her new novel “Library of Legends”
- Jill Barber singer/songwriter
- Michael Viens & Rosie Carver celtic duo, Blackthorn Blossoms duo.
- Allan McMordie bagpiper
- City Opera Vancouver performance from the brand new Chinatown opera that will premiere in September 2022 – Libretto by Madeleine Thien, music by Alice Ping Yee Ho
- Video visit to Chinatown Storytelling Centre
- filmmaker Karen Cho from Montreal.
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)
Zoom in to Celebrate Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2022!
Initially, we had hoped to create a hybrid event – but we have adjusted due to Omicron Coronavirus, and want everybody to be safe.
Please tune in to celebrate and watch the performance which will be live-streamed from the stage at the Floata Seafood Restaurant in Vancouver Chinatown.
We will start GHFC at 5:00pm PST (8:00pm Eastern time zone.), Sunday, January 30th. This year our performers include:
- City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam – will read a poem “in response to Burns“
- Author Janie Chang will read a Lunar New Year scene from her new novel “Library of Legends”
- Jill Barber singer/songwriter
- Michael Viens & Rosie Carver celtic duo, Blackthorn Blossoms duo.
- Allan McMordie bagpiper
- City Opera Vancouver performance from the brand new Chinatown opera that will premiere in September 2022 – Libretto by Madeleine Thien, music by Alice Ping Yee Ho
- Video visit to Chinatown Storytelling Centre
- filmmaker Karen Cho from Montreal.
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)
Take-Away Dinner for 2 Menu – designed to travel well and not to spill
- 2 Corn soup with “egg clouds”
- spicy jelly fish
- 2 turnip cake appetizer
- 2 haggis dumpling appetizer
- special vegetarian lettuce wrap
- 2 slices of haggis
- 2 salt & pepper fish
- 2 Capitol pork loin
- Buddhist feast
- Long Life e-fu noodles
Price is $75 + tax. Please call Floata to pre-order by Friday 8pm. Pick-up will be approximately 3.00-4:30pm on Sunday to give you time to get home and watch our show on your computer or TV. Please call 604 602 0368 or email info@floata.com – ask for Brian.
** Sorry no special GHFC dinner orders will be taken on Saturday or Sunday – but you could order from their regular Take-Out Menu or your local neighborhood favorite Chinese or Scottish Restaurant.
$75 for your Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner for 2
Happy New Year! Let’s start off the Lunar New Year with a Scottish-Chinese Robbie Burns fusion feast! Just like last year’s celebration, a very Special Gung Haggis Fat Choy Box Dinner for Two is available for purchase at Floata Restaurant in Vancouver Chinatown. Celebrating safely and responsibly, we plan to create something special that you can eat at home, and that we can perform and celebrate together at our Livestream event!
It will contain almost all the food that we normally serve at a GHFC Banquet Dinner.
Menu
- Corn soup with “egg clouds”
- spicy jelly fish
- turnip cake appetizer
- haggis dumpling appetizer
- special lettuce wrap
- slice of haggis
- salt & pepper fish
- Capital pork loin
- Buddhist feast
- Long life e-fu noodles
Price is $75. Please call Floata to pre-order by Saturday 1.00pm. Pick-up will be approximately 1.00-5.00pm on Sunday. Please call 604 602 0368 or email info@floata.com – ask for Brian.
** Sorry no special GHFC dinner orders will be taken on Sunday – but you could order from their regular Take-Out Menu.
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 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.
“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
“Ricepaper Interviews Todd Wong, founder of Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Dinner.” — Ricepaper Magazine