CHAOZHOU SHANTOU Cooking(Pigeon Soup w/ Herbs)SWT44(1of2)

[taolaoxao]

thank you my country man!

[nanbmn]

没想到乳鸽这么大，能比得上一只童子鸡了。它生前能飞吗？

[star9862]

The interview section was done in pure Teochew.

In the cooking section, the girl in light blue was speaking only Mandarin, while the other girl in purple spoke pure Teochew. The Teochew is quite formal, so it's difficult for us residing elsewhere to fully follow.

[Hokgao]

What language are you speaking lady? She speaks less than 25% Teochew. Speak the language properly to your audience can understand you otherwise you are wasting your time and the audience's.

I can understand the guys but the girl does not speak proper Teochew. Teochew is all over the places when it comes to a common language. Teochew language needs to be standardized. Maybe I should be the one who initiates the codification and standardization of the language. what do you think?

[taolaoxao]

@Hokgao your comments is ok! but! why don't you write by Chinese characters !

[Tekki7]

kacke wie krass

die essen tauben uff ^^

ach meine landsleute xD

[ihuhu920]

well

the first girl speaks teochew mainly

the second girl speaks mandarin

[slimstan]

King Taksin Chinese name is ZhengZhao.

he was born in Ayutthaya, kingdom of Thai (not

Chenghai, where his father from)

he crowned as Thai king in 1768 and took the

title as HM Somdet Phra Chao Taksin Maharaj

[yaritagariya]

I'm a Teochew but I live in Indonesia, and my dialect is quiet different from this, I can't understand all but my mother can understand this older version one fully XD My grandparent still speaks like this... Ah , such a good relief to listen to it;since I move to this town, I feel sometime miss talking/listening to Teochew like back in hometown, no one speaks Teochew here despise he/she is a Teochew :(

[dragonquestps2]

wow these teochew from china make teochew sound like mandarin

[joo6769]

By the way, the title is erroneous. The bird in question is a pigeon, not a chicken. In fact, the 2 gals mentioned it. Ru ge (乳鸽) in mandarin and lu gab in teochew means pigeon.

[joo6769]

In ancient times, there were actually 6 zhous (洲 or prefectures) in Fujian. We rebelled against the central government but was suppressed. As a consequence, the central government decided to Chao Zhou & Mei Zhou (梅洲 populated mostly by Hakkas) to Guangdong province.

[joo6769]

Most of the Teochews went to Thailand or Vietnam. Less came to Singapore/Malaysia. Yes, almost all people of chinese descent in Thailand are Teochews. I am not sure about northern Vietnam but almost all people of Chinese descent in southern Vietnam are Teochews, especially before the fall of Saigon.

Teochew is not related to Cantonese though they reside in the same province. Teochews were actually from Fujian and an off-spring of the Minnan dialect.

[tung2sai]

My family is of Chinese-Vietnamese background. My dad's side was from the south and mom from the North. None of them are Teochew although there were a lot. A lot of Hakkas and people from Xinhui who went there.

[slimstan]

Most Thais are either teochew or hakka, as matter of fact, in 1734 King Taksin, the great

was actually a teochew man born in Chenghai, Chaozhou. He ruled the Thai kingdom during the

Thonburi era. thus even today, present Thai kind also admitted he's part Chinese(may be

of teochew origin)

[tintin1980]

Great video - ChaoShan cooking is the best! But there are no chickens here, it is pigeon/dove...

So amazing that there are so many ChaoShan people around the world as the cities are quite small by Chinese standards.

[samdonuge]

i'm gonna learn teochew.

[tintin1980]

Good luck with that - I know of people who have lived in Chaozhou for 8 years and not managed to pick it up!

[marcus86]

i m a teochew live in malaysia.. i agree with u, its hard to learn.. here we normally speak hokkien(Fujian) rather than teochew(chaozhou)..both r min nan yu.. i can only understand less than half of their conversation...

[stevenpneh]

Whatever, its about soup here.

[tanchk]

very nice, please post more Shantou Chaozhou Teochew videos for us overseas Teochew, to remind us of our roots

[lane88]

80% of the population in Bangkok is teochew??? or 80% of the chinese people in bangkok is teochew?? it´s a lot!!!!!! i wanna go to bangkok!! haha

[yeahdatzme]

the accent sounds like a combination of cantonese and mandarin...

[tintin1980]

ChaoZhouHua is not much like cantonese at all, close to min nan yes. Niether my mandarin speaking friends nor my cantonese speaking friends can understand a word of it!

[samdonuge]

my grandma speaks it, my mom and her sisters understand it. so I'd think it's not impossible. it kind of sounds like Vietnamese.