The Wild Sushi: Red Bull Flugtag Vancouver 2006

Since Vancouver is hosting Canada’s first Flugtag, Team Sushi Gone Wild wanted our aircraft to represent what Vancouver is all about.  We thought about doing a theme on snowboarding, trees, real estate, hockey, dim sum, or sushi.

We wondered if we should build…

• a mountain and have a snowboarder fly off into False Creek
• a forest and launch a bear from the treetops
• a condo and tip it over
• a giant hockey stick and puck (but who wants to think about hockey in August…especially after the Canucks’ lackluster season)
• a big bamboo steamer of dumplings
• a huge piece of sushi and chopsticks

It came down to a debate between dim sum or sushi – food was definitely on our minds.  In the end, sushi won; it’s more colourful than dumplings and Vancouver is known for having many, many, many sushi restaurants.

Which do you think is more photogenic?