Teochew cuisine, also known as Chiuchow cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine or Chaoshan cuisine, originated from the Chaoshan region in the north-easternmost area of Guangdong province, China, which includes the cities of Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang.

Teochew cuisine bears more similarities to that of Fujian cuisine, to which it shares same dishes, which may be due to Chaoshan and Fujian's cultural and language similarities and geographic proximity.

However, Teochew cuisine is also influenced by Cantonese cuisine in its style and technique.

A condiment that is commonly associated with Teochew cuisine is shacha sauce ().

In addition to soy sauce ( widely used in all Chinese cuisines ), Teochew cuisine is one of the few regional Chinese that makes use of fish sauce due to Chaoshan's coastal land.

There is a notable feast in Teochew cuisine / banquet called jiat dot ().

Teochew cuisine is also known for a late night meal known as meh siao () or da lang () among the Cantonese.

Many people of Chaoshan origin, also known as Teochiu or Teochew people, have settled in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand ; influences they bring can be noted in the cuisine of Singapore and that of other settlements.

A large number of Teochew people have also settled in Taiwan, evident in Taiwanese cuisine.

The soy sauces which are used in Thai cuisine are of Chinese origin and the Thai names for them are ( wholly or partially ) loanwords from the Teochew language: si-io dam ( dark soy sauce ), si-io khao ( light soy sauce ), and taochiao ( fermented whole soy beans ).

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The suburban-style 99 Ranch Market chain is a key anchor to the area, with other Southern California-based chain businesses such as the Sam Woo Restaurant ( serving Cantonese cuisine ), 168 Shanghai Restaurant ( serving Shanghai and Taiwanese cuisine ), Harbor Palace Seafood Restaurant ( serving Cantonese cuisine and dim sum ), and Kim Tar Restaurant ( serving Teochew cuisine ).

Singaporean Chinese cuisine is largely derived from the cuisines of the Hokkien, Teochew, Hainanese, Cantonese, and Hakka dialect groups that comprise the majority of the Chinese population in Singapore.

Chai tao kway is a common dish or dim sum of Teochew cuisine in Chaoshan ( China ), Singapore and Malaysia, consisting of stir-fried cubes of radish cake.

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The Teochew mue is rather different from the Cantonese counterpart, the former being very watery with the rice sitting loosely at the bottom of the bowl.

There is also a large diaspora of Teochew people ( most were from Southeast Asia ) in the United States-particularly in the state of California.

There is a Teochew Chinese Association in Paris called L ' Amicale des Teochews en France.

It is mainly the ethnic Chinese ( usually Hokkien and Teochew ) who cook with fish sauce ( 鱼露 yǘlù, 虾油 xīayú in Hokkien ) in Indonesia and Malaysia.

The Amoy dialect of Xiamen is the prestige dialect of Min Nan in mainland China and Taiwan, with Teochew also being an important variety.

Glossika divides the Min languages into eight: Northern Min ( Min Bei in Nanping prefecture in Fujian, but Jian ' ou dialect is the standard dialect of Min Bei ), Shaojiang ( eastern Nanping and surrounding areas ; in broader classifications treated as a dialect of Min Bei ), Eastern Min ( Min Dong in Fuzhou and Ningde prefectures ), Central Min ( Min Zhong in Sanming prefecture ), Puxian Min in Putian prefecture, Southern Min ( Min Nan in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Xiamen ( Amoy ) prefectures and on Taiwan ( Hokkien dialect ), and in eastern Guangdong province ( Teochew dialect ); Hokkien and Teochew are sometimes considered separate languages ), Leizhou ( on the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong ), and Hainanese ( on Hainan Island ; in broader classifications Leizhou and Hainanese are treated as a Qiongwen language or as dialects of Min Nan ).

In Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other areas in Southeast Asia, Min Nan is known as Hokkien, in addition to the Teochew variant, originating in the Chaoshan region, which is the ancestral home of many ethnic Chinese in Singapore as well as in Bangkok, Thailand ( see Thai Chinese for more information about the Chinese community in Thailand ).

The Qiong Wen variant spoken in the Leizhou peninsula of Guangdong province, as well as Hainan province, which is not mutually intelligible with standard Minnan or Teochew, is classified in some schemes as part of Southern Min and in other schemes as separate.

Teochew is of great importance in the Southeast Asian Chinese diaspora, particularly in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sumatra and West Kalimantan.

* Chaoshan ( Teochew )- style mooncake: This is another flaky crust variety, but is larger in size than the Suzhou variety.

Pathongko is a Thai corruption of either Teochew Minnan beh teung guai ( 白糖粿 ; Mandarin: bái tángguǒ ) or Cantonese of baahktònggòu ( 白糖糕 ; Mandarin: bái tánggāo ).

In other Asian cultures, it is also called kanji ( Tamil / Tulu ), kaṇhji / Malayalam ), pakhal bhat ( Oriya ), ganji ( Kannada / Telugu ), juk ( Cantonese, Korean ), moe ( Hokkien and Teochew ), zhou ( Mandarin ), cháo ( Vietnamese ), deythuk ( Tibetan ), chok ( Thai ), kayu ( Japanese ), lúgaw ( Tagalog ), Bubur or kanji ( Indonesian and Malay ) or jaou ( Bengali ) which is derived directly from the Chinese character 粥 ( which means gruel ), canja ( Portuguese ).

Chinese Thais of Teochew ( Chaozhou ) descent are the dominant group of ethnic Chinese, with smaller numbers of those of Cantonese and Hakka origin as well.

This well identified the Teochew village of tua jia ka which means the " foot of a big well ".

People who are of mainly Chinese descent are descendants of immigrants who relocated to Thailand as well as other parts of Nanyang ( the Chinese term for Southeast Asia used at the time ) in the early to mid 20th century due to famine and civil war in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong ( Teochew, Cantonese, Hainan, Hakka groups ) and Fujian ( Hokkien, Hakka ).

In Thailand, they are known as ang pow ( the pronunciation of the Chinese characters for " red envelope " in the Teochew dialect ) or tae ea among the Chinese-Thai.

The variants of Southern Min in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong province are collectively known as Teochew or Chaozhou.

Two of the oldest and best known Chinese temples in Singapore, Thian Hock Keng aka Tian Fu Gong ( belongs to the Hokkien Clan ) and Yueh Hai Ching Temple aka Yue Hai Qing Miao ( belongs to the Teochew & Cantonese Clan ), were both dedicated mainly to Mazu, and in the 19th century were frequented by immigrants who came to give thanks after a safe sea voyage from China.

The other major group of Chinese descent is Chaozhou People which is better known as Teochew.

Chua Lam ( also known as Tsai Lan, Teochew: Chùa Lāng ) ( simplified Chinese:, traditional Chinese:, Japanese: チョイ ・ ラン ) ( born 1941 in Singapore ) is a columnist, food critic and occasional television host in Hong Kong and Japan.

It was later found out that the learning of Mandarin among the Singaporean Chinese was hindered by the home use of non-Mandarin Chinese languages, better known as ' dialects ' in Singapore ( principally Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese and Hakka ).

Ho Chi Minh City's Chinatown is the Cholon district which has been a stronghold for the Chinese-Vietnamese community since the late 1770s, when many Cantonese and Teochew Chinese arrived during French imperialism.

In a dramatic incident in 1887, Pickering was attacked by a Teochew carpenter, Chua Ah Siok, who was sent by one of the secret societies, the Ghee Hok Society, to kill him in retaliation for Pickering's constant meddling in business.

" Boat people " was a general category for both the Tanka and the Hoklo ( Teochew ), who made their living on boats and spoke different dialects.

Guangdong Romanization refers to the four romanization schemes published by the Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960 for transliterating Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, and Hainanese.

The renovation to the temple was undertaken by the Ngee Ann Kongsi, which was formed by a group of immigrants from the Teochew community. This temple served as a meeting place for the people of the Teochew community in the late 19th century when the Teochews became the second largest Chinese Dialect group in Singapore. The temple was honoured with a bian e, an imperial signboard from Emperor Guang Xu of the Qing Dynasty in 1907.

The incident ostensibly began because of a dispute over the price of rice, between a Hokkien and a Teochew, but that dispute probably was only a trigger for the release of long-held resentment and animosity between the Hokkien ( from Fujian province in China ) and Teochew ( from Chaozhou province ) communities.

* Duck rice (), braised duck with rice cooked with yam and shrimps ; it can be served simply with plain white rice and a thick dark sauce ; side dishes of braised hard-boiled eggs, preserved salted vegetables, or hard beancurd ( tau kua ) may be added ; Teochew boneless duck rice is a similar, but a more refined dish ; due to the slightly tougher texture of duck, the duck is artfully deboned and sliced thinly for the convenience and ease of the diner, allowing the sauces to seep into the meat, making it a more pleasant experience on the whole ; Hainanese chicken rice and other similar dishes have followed this style due to the popularity

The Chinese in Cambodia represented five major linguistic groups, the largest of which was the Teochew ( accounting for about 60 %), followed by the Cantonese ( accounting for about 20 %), the Hokkien ( accounting for about 7 %), and the Hakka and the Hainanese ( each accounting for about 4 %).

Versions of pe ̍ h-ōe-jī have been devised for other languages, including Hakka and Teochew.