Table of 10: $625
Each ticket includes $5 service charge.

In 1998, “Toddish McWong” held a small private dinner for 16 friends with food, haggis, poetry and songs – from both Scottish and Chinese cultures and thus was born – Gung Haggis Fat Choy –  Now it is a dinner for 400 people!  More than  a traditional dinner with music and poetry.  Gung Haggis Fat Choy re-imagines a traditional Robert Burns Dinner format, within a BC or Canadian historical context that puts Scottish-Canadian and Chinese-Canadian pioneers on an inclusive and equal platform, while acknowledging historical racism and how we move beyond it.  This event has grown to also celebrate contemporary Scottish-Canadian and Chinese-Canadian artists and poets and their innovations to create something uniquely Canadian, and a heckuva lot of FUN!

1998 – 1st Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner for 16 people in a living room.

1999 – 1st dinner in a restaurant for 40 people

2001 – 1st media interviews for Ubyssey newspaper and 100 attendees as we fill the Grandview Szechwan Restaurant

2002 – 200 attendees in a snow storm as we outgrow the Spicy Court Restaurant + Media interviews for Vancouver Sun and CBC Radio and City TV
2003 – 1^st Creation of deep-fried haggis wonton, and we move to Flamingo Restaurant on Fraser.

2004 – CBC television performance special “Gung Haggis Fat Choy”– nominated for 2 Leo Awards

2005 – SFU GHFC Festival with dragon cart racing + human curling

2005 – 500 attendees and we move to Floata Restaurant in Vancouver Chinatown.

2006 – GHFC photo included in Paul Yee book Saltwater City

2007 – “Address to the Haggis” rap version performed by Todd Wong & Joe McDonald

2007 – GHFC featured in CBC documentary Generations: The Chan Legacy

2008 –  Toddish McWong photo in BC Canada Pavillion during  Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.

2008 – Photo of Toddish McWong in the Royal BC Museum exhibit “The Party”

2009 – GHFC written about in Charles Demers’ book Vancouver Special

2009 – Toddish McWong featured speaker at Centre for Scottish Studies SFU conference “Burns in Trans-Atlantic context”

2009 – Toddish McWong photo featured at Scottish Parliament in the exhibit “This is Who We Are: Scots in Canada.”

2010 – UBC Assistant Professor Larissa Lai, who teaches Burns poetry, is the featured poet and reads from her BC Book Prize-nominated collection Automaton Diaries

2010 – feature souvenir items from Burns Cottage such as a tam and bow-tie given to Bill Saunders, president of VDLC, who gives the Immortal Memory

2011 – “Gung HAPA Fat Choy” dinner features mixed-race artists and performers and inspires the creation of the  Hapa-Palooza Festival for Vancouver 125 Celebrations

Writers: Joy Kogawa, Fred Wah, Brad Cran, Larissa Lai, Rita Wong, George McWhirter, Jim Wong-Chu, Lensey Namioka, Fiona Tinwei Lam.

Musicians: Silk Road Music, Heather Pawsey soprano, Lan Tung, and Blackthorn

Film makers:  Jeff Chiba Stearns, Ann-Marie Fleming and Moyra Rodger.

Menu Highlights include:
Deep-fried haggis wonton + haggis pork dumpling (su-mei) and appetizer courses.
“Neeps” served Chinese style in the form of pan-fried turnip cake, dim sum style.
Traditional haggis is served with Chinese lettuce wrap.

And we always feature fun sing-alongs such as Loch Lomand, My Chow Mein (Bonny) Lies Over the Ocean, and When Asian Eyes Are Smiling.
Lots of surprises… such as new for 2012 – a revamped version of Robbie Burns lyrics set to Johnny Cash or Elvis Presley music.