Tim Pawsey's article about Chinese New Year that I wrote about Sunday with a prominent mention of this year's Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner is now online at the Vancouver Courier Website. It's called Gearing up for Chinese New Year. Check it out!
Gung Haggis Fat Choy will soon be known to thousands of travellers to Vancouver. It is featured in the latest copy of Where Vancouver – available from your local hotel concierge.
Check out the following web site and look under features for “Moonstruck.” http://www.where.ca/vancouver/article_feature.cfm?listing_id=18
Moonstruck
Vancouver's Chinese-Canadian community celebrates the Lunar New Year by going out for dinner
by Tim Pawsey
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Another cross-cultural incursion on familiar customs, Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a hybrid event that welcomes the Year of the Monkey and pays homage to Scottish poet Robbie Burns all in the same evening (Jan. 25). The East-meets-West Burns Night/New Year is the brainchild of “Toddish McWong,” who led in his first haggis while a tour guide at Simon Fraser University. Todd Wong (his real name) is a seventh-generation Canadian who set out to create “a fun event that celebrates the similarities in our common cultures.” Looks like he succeeded. Some 400 people will show up for the sold-out banquet at Flamingo Chinese Restaurant (3489 Fraser St.; 604-877-1231). On the menu, plenty of poetry and song saluting Scottish, Chinese and Canadian cultural connections; plenty of fat cho sea moss; and haggis—marched in with bagpipes, properly “addressed,” and served sweet and sour, of course. |
Publication Date: 12/2003
Check the business section of the Vancouver Sun for Dec 13. On page H1 is an article called “Life is but a blog.” On page H2 is a continuation with a call out titled B.C. Blogging Sites and Blogs. The first address is www.vaneats.com. It reads, ” Let's start with the important issues first:: food. With links to other blogs (check out www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com) and useful Web sites.
Roland Tanglao has had the vaneats.com Blog going for a few years with links to lots of different sites… gunghaggisfatchoy.com is only about two weeks old. It's a real compliment that we are picked to “check out.” As they say… timing is everything!
