The Scotsman explains it better than I ever could. Here's an excerpt:
Gung Haggis Fat Choy is a celebration of Burns Night and Chinese New Year created by fifth generation Chinese Canadian Todd Wong, or if you’d rather: Toddish McWong. The event has grown from an intimate merging of the two cultures at a dinner in 1998, to a cultural must-do filled with song, dance, poetry and a feast that in 2005 fed 600 people.
I can't tell you how gutted I was when I realized it's happening this weekend in Vancouver & there was no way I'd be able to make it... perhaps I should plan around it for next year.
...or better yet, try to convince my friends that they want to do something similar here. I wonder what sort of a holiday we could cobble together out of British, Chinese, Finnish, First Nation, French, Israeli, Irish, Korean, Romanian, Scottish, South African and Trinidadian heritages?*
* Have I missed anybody? Please let me know.
Posted by edgar at January 19, 2006 09:42 AM