Bagpipes, a Chinese "Auld Lang Syne", and more at Gung Haggis Fat Choy, online January 30 at 5 pm
The brilliant made-in-Vancouver mashup of Robbie Burns Day and Lunar New Year includes a take-home meal
Gung Haggis Fat Choy streams at 5 pm. Pre-register at the link here.
GUNG HAGGIS Fat Choy has had to move all the fun online for 2022, for its brilliant fusion of Lunar New Year and Robbie Burns Day—and you can even order in dinner-to-go.
Streaming live from the Floata Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown, this year’s cross-cultural celebrations feature such unexpected musical highlights as Todd Wong (better known as event founder “Toddish McWong”) performing “Address to a Haggis” set to a Johnny Cash tune, and an “Auld Lang Syne” that finds Robbie Burns’s original lyrics translated into Chinese.
You’ll also have the chance to hear an excerpt from City Opera Vancouver’s new Chinatown opera, which is scheduled for a world premiere this fall, and to listen to City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam read “in response to Burns”.
Other acts include the Celtic duo Michael Viens and Rosie Carver of Blackthorn Blossoms, bagpiper Allan McMordie, author Janie Chang, and singer-songwriter Jill Barber.
It's the kind of fabulous fusion that could only have been born in Vancouver. Toddish McWong started the festivities as a private dinner way back in 1998. The name is a wordplay, of course, on Scottish haggis and the Cantonese greeting "Kung Hei Fat Choi" used during Chinese New Year. And that mix plays out on the takeout menu available for pre-order: it includes everything from two haggis dumpling appetizers and two slices of haggis to Long Life e-fu noodles. Call Floata to pre-order by Friday 8 pm; pick-up is 3 to 4:30 pm on Sunday before the show.
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