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.
Trendy new apartment pets for the 21st century? Or part of the Slow Food movement?
You decide.
Following my nose through the internet, and landed on this page... it's like a plague in reverse, isn't it?
Wonder if that's a sign of the rather lesser known Unpocalypse... you know, the one that says we'll end in a whisper of sweet nothings rather than a bang of biblical proportions...*
* PostScript: As it turns out we were so worried about The Bomb that we didn't notice
global warming was killing us all by degrees...