Teochew cuisine
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Date: 2021-12-09

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#Teochew_cuisine
#Chaozhou
#Regional_cuisines_of_China
Teochew cuisine, also known as Chiuchow cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine or Chaoshan cuisine, originated from the Chaoshan region in the eastern part of China's Guangdong Province, which includes the cities of Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang.
Teochew cuisine bears more similarities to that of Fujian cuisine, particularly Southern Min cuisine, due to the similarity of Chaoshan's and Fujian's culture, language, and their geographic proximity to each other.
However, Teochew cuisine is also influenced by Cantonese cuisine in its style and technique.
Teochew cuisine is well known for its seafood and vegetarian dishes.
Its use of flavouring is much less heavy-handed than most other Chinese cuisines and depends much on the freshness and quality of the ingredients for taste and flavour.
As a delicate cuisine, oil is not often used in large quantities and there is a relatively heavy emphasis on poaching, steaming and braising, as well as the common Chinese method of stir-frying.
Teochew cuisine is also known for serving congee （糜; mí; or mue）, in addition to steamed rice or noodles with meals.
The Teochew mue is rather different from the Cantonese counterpart, being very watery with the rice sitting loosely at the bottom of the bowl, while the Cantonese dish is more a thin gruel.
Authentic Teochew restaurants serve very strong oolong tea called Tieguanyin in very tiny cups before and after the meal.
Presented as gongfu tea, the tea has a thickly bittersweet taste, colloquially known as gam gam （甘甘; gān gān）.
A condiment that is popular in Fujian and Taiwanese cuisine and commonly associated with cuisine of certain Teochew groups is shacha sauce （沙茶酱; 沙茶醬; shāchá jiàng）.
It is made from soybean oil, garlic, shallots, chilies, brill fish and dried shrimp.
The paste has a savoury and slightly spicy taste.
As an ingredient, it has multiple uses: as...