I'm an indonesian teochew..!! Finally teochew nang speak out something.. hahaha.. proud of you guys.. and thanks fungbros for bringing up teochew in your video..

This was very heartwarming. I literally thought all the Chiu Chow people left would be the older generation. Its nice to know I'm not alone speaking Teochew out there in my generation. I am 24 years old have not met anyone my age that can speak Teochew. I can relate a lot to all of the stories you guys talk about. Even in the end I was counting along with you guys and understood all the words. Thanks again for this video, it kind of helped me find a part of myself!

FINALLY! Im born and raised by chiu chow family but I feel so alone and isolated in my own identity! I've always said I'm from HK (where my family lived for a long time) but deep down I know I'm a gaginang! lol!

thank you for giving diojiu people a voice & setting my ethnicity straight! ;) you guys are awesome!

I’m Indonesian, and my great grandparents from china, so we can speak teochew/chiu chow ❤️ proud 🙏

I've always considered myself as Cambodian-Chinese or just Cambodian even though I am part chiu chow. I don't know anything about that culture. I'll definitely look into it, thanks guys!

My favorite video of all times! Thanks for providing the world (well, at least the youtube community) a glimpse of each Chiu Chow person experiences. Also, Dave and Andrew, you two ROCK! Love all your videos! Keep up the great work!

WOwwwww I'm Chiu Chow but we're not even 1% of the population where I live, it's kind of awesome to watch this video and hear you all talk! I'm not used to youtubers speaking Chiu Chow dialect- like ever, so thank you for making this video and making me feel like I'm not the only one feeling 'isolated' and whatnot!

After 25 years of being confused about being Chiu Chow, I learned so much about my ethnicity and culture from this video!!

So appreciate this segment! Both my parents were born in Vietnam from Chinese emigrants (father is Chiu Chow and mother is Cantonese). Arrived in Australia 7 years old in 1980. Only spoke Chiu Chow and Cantonese at home and schooled in Mandarin. Took many years to identify myself culturally in Australia. I AM AUSTRALIAN CHINESE descended from Chiu Chow and Cantonese heritage.

HOLY CRAP!!!! WHERE MY TEOCHEW FAM AT!!!!!😂💛🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂

so for me, I knew I was 1/4 Chinese but I never really knew where I originated from. And then today I clicked on a Fung Bros Food episode just to take break from studying for midterms and to my surprise, I recognized the language. So I kept watching the episode and then I recognized the food too, but I still wasn't sure if I was Chiu Chow. And literally a half hour ago, I showed my uncle and mom the food episode and they were like "Yeah! You are Chiu Chow". I never really identified myself as Chinese before, let alone Chiu Chow. I always have identified myself as Vietnamese because my mom is full and my dad is half. Honestly I'm so glad you guys made this episode because it helped me discover something about myself.

Teocheow people are very proud people. Li Ka Shing is one of the richest Chinese men in the world and he is teocheow. My father told me that teocheow people are very frugal and said to be stingy. Teocheow can survive on very little. For example they can eat porridge, mueh with ghana, salty olive.

No Cambodian teochews😢

YAAAAAAS MY PEOPLE!!! Okay so I'm like, half Chiu Chow and half Viet but I really identify as more Chiu Chow because I've grown up closer to the language and culture. I used to be really frustrated that none of the Chinese kids around me spoke Chiu Chow and spoke Mandarin instead and I was pretty convinced for a while that we were the only Chiu Chow family where I lived haha. The interesting thing I think is that when my family speaks Chiu Chow, it's really different from the Chiu Chow that 100% pure Chiu Chow people speak. What we speak at home is sort of a mix of Chiu Chow AND Vietnamese. I think that's probably because my mom's family had moved from China to Vietnam so most of my aunts and uncles grew up only speaking Chiu Chow at home so over time, little bits of Vietnamese have been mixed into our Chiu Chow. It's really interesting when we do meet 100% Chiu Chow people though. My mom has no problem communicating with them because while she speaks the Chiu Chow/Vietnamese mix with me, she can still speak "traditional" Chiu Chow when prompted. I however, find it harder to speak the "traditional" Chiu Chow and so sometimes it takes me a while to get other Chiu Chow people (especially the older ones) what I'm saying. I'm actually sort of ashamed that I can't speak the language as well as they do. I think it's really cool that you guys made this video! It's great that you're spreading awareness of a different kind of Chinese :-)

wow I'm a toechew who is raised in Indonesia and just actually knew that we are called Chiu Chow hahaha a new knowledge! Thanks fung bros for sharing these Chinese knowledges. Makes me even prouder to be a Chinese hahaha

Thanks for making this video!! I can relate to this so much.

My firstname is Thai. Roots from chiou chow and Vietnam. Born and raised in Sweden. lol.

Im Teochew but I identity as Vietnamese all the way! Vietnam is in my heart, mind and soul. It's what I speak. Its who I relate to

Actually really loving these videos because they bring me back to a part of my life that I have a really hard time keeping in touch with. My grandma was the only one in my family that still spoke chiu chow constantly so when she passed away, everyone kind of reverted naturally to cantonese and the language is kind of lost to me now. It's nice hearing the familiar sounds.

this is so rad! it's so hard to see gaginang represented anywhere, especially somewhere as recognized as your channel. thanks for repping guys!

The Teochew dialect is very similar to the Hokkien dialect

This was so fascinating ! Hereabouts in Singapore and Malaysia we refer to Chiu Chow as Teochew. Watching you guys felt like my “western” English speaking and Chinese cultural worlds collided. I’ve just started Chiu chow/ teochew classes to understand my grandma better. Lovely meeting you all, I loved hearing all your stories and identity journeys🤗

So... because of this video, I now realize I'm part Chiu Chow. I'm Filipino but my maternal grandpa is full 'Chinese' (now I know he's Chiu Chow) and he always claimed he was Chinese. He was very secretive about where exactly he came from so I never knew much about him and he eventually passed away revealing very little about himself. Then one day, when I was a kid, my mum told me she knew how to count up to 10 in his dialect and growing up I thought she was making it up because it didn't sound anything like Mandarin or Cantonese. And then I see this video and you guys started counting... it sounded exactly what my mom said. Legit mind blown right now. Thanks for shedding light into this! I'm pretty amazed. XD

The way you count 1-10 reminds me of my childhood so much. As a kid I thought all chinese people counted like that but then I knew some folk from a family that speak mandarin and it changed my mind forever lol I'm Thai-Chiu Chow by the way.

The confusing thing about all of us Teochew speakers is that we have different dialects from each other depending on where our parents came from whether it be Chaozhou China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand or wherever else. It would be hard understand each other because we pronounce it differently from one and another. I'm Cambodian/Teochew Chinese. I can identify as either since I'm mixed race.

I love the Fung's youtubes. Thanks guys and keep up the works.

Thanks for this video you guys! As a teochew person from Singapore, this helped me learn a lot more about other teochew people around the world ^_^ keep the great videos coming!

damn, i didnt know olivia was theochew. even prouder to be theochew now lol

I've been asking my parents what we are for like 25 years and they kept telling me Chinese, but they were born in Vietnam. Now I finally know the term and can explain to them thank you!

OMG to hear you guys count to 10 brings back all my childhood! Half Teochew, half Hokkien, a bit of Thai from Thailand here. Thanks for the video

TEOCHEW NANG BORN IN TEOCHEW, GREW UP IN TEOCHEW, AND IMMIGRATED TO CANADA WHEN I WAS 7 YEARS OLD. THIS VIDEO MAKES ME SO PROUD TO BE TEOCHEW AND MAINLAND CHINESE!! thank you for the representation, fung bros

This video made me have butterflies! I'm 100% TeoChew but it's pretty lonely when there's not a lot of us around. Luckily, I live in the Bay Area and was able to make friends who knows how to speak it. To make a conversation simpler, I just tell people that I'm Chinese and Viet unless they ask what kind of Chinese I speak. It's sad that there's not a lot around because I can't practice speaking the language, so my TeoChew is pretty broken. I just know enough to survive. But omgosh Olivia Thai!!

What does it means to be Teochew nang 潮州人? let's begin by learning to pronounce the word 潮州 correctly in our own dialect it's Tiejiu or Teojiu using English phonetically spellings (using French T instead of English T pronunciation .) Teochew is actual English word defined by some missionaries awhile back. Teochew is not an ethnic or race it was the name of a prefecture 府 throughout pre-republic China. Before the establishment of provincial system, there were two prefectures Guangzhou prefecture 广州府 and Teochew prefecture 潮州府 in what is now known as Guangdong province 广东省. Our ancestors came from Teochew prefecture located at northeastern quarter of today Guangdong province. Prefecture was the equivalent of province in ancient China, thus it was natural for all Chinese people to identify themselves with the prefecture hence our ancestors called themselves Teochew nang 潮州人。 Are Teochew people Cantonese? In modern day geography yes, but in every other ways no we're not Cantonese. First there is no language called Cantonese because Guangdong province has three main dialects Guangzhou dialect, Teochew dialect and Hakka dialect. Teochew language and culture and customs are very different than Guangzhou people. Teochew is much closer to Hokkieng 福建 or modern day culture of Taiwanese than Guangzhou cultures. Teochew cultures including Teochew cuisines retains many of ancient Chinese classical philosophies of Lao Tzu 老子/庄子 and Confucius 孔子。Guangzhou cultures contains much more fusion from the Viet Kingdom 越国 and Europe, etc. Are Teochew people ethnic Han Chinese? Yes we are. Like the Guangzhou and Hakka people our ancestors were not natives to the region. The first wave Han settlers in Teochew were Qin Emperor 秦始皇 Army soldiers who conquered the Viet Kingdom, followed by a few more waves of soldiers and their families to cultivate the lands and fight the enemies. then as Hokkieng 福建population over grew the lands waves after waves of the population emigrated south to Teochew prefecture. In fact there are quite a few villages in Hokkieng province still speak Teochew to this day. The most prominent organized mass immigration to Teochew were from Futian 甫田 (福建) which had unusual high population of scholars and high ranking imperial officials during the Yuan 元 (or Sui 隋， have look up this one ), they were the most loyal generals and high imperial officials who refused to surrender to the Mongols invaders long after all of China already lost. Most Teochew scholars credited the Futian immigrants as the most influential group of people that shaped and developed the Teochew cultures that we know today. they were all Han Chinese people. what about the natives? Many of them were driven south and those few remaining natives were allowed to maintain their cultures which still survive today. The emigration to South East Asia were organized by Han Teochew and spaces on boats were so limited I doubt it very much any native people could make it onboard.

just wanna say I appreciate yall doing this video.

Omg thank you!!! So glad to know my gaginang still rep!

Counting in Teochew sounds like counting in Hainanese!

Chuichow blood but Vietnamese raised...so I feel most comfortable identifying with my Vietnamese peeps

I actually love this video. Finally brings light to chiu chow people. And I can finally understand what they're speaking

Sums up my life! Thank you for creating this. 😍

Great video. This is the chinese dialect I speak. These guys are right, when you tell someone you are chinese, they automatically assume you speak mandarin or cantonese. They don't know there are other dialects. Awesome video.

Nice to know that I can understand another language that most ppl don’t know.

Thanks guys for making this video. My family lives in VN too but we are 100% gaginang, so really emotional when watching this video and knowing we are not alone.

I appreciate u guys doing this

Very interesting!! I feel a lot more educated after watching this. You guys should do a video about Okinawan identity. Many people think Okinawans are the same thing as Japanese but some Okinawans do not identify as being Japanese. It's a big thing in Hawaii.

I just want to say thank you because I was ALWAYS confused about "what" i am, just like you guys mentioned, my parents never talked about nationality/ethnicity. I think they just wanted to keep it simple lol. My story is a lot like IE Tran, my mom&dad were born in Vietnam but my grandpa(before he passed) would teach me cantonese numbers so I thought i was half viet/half chinese? I've always wanted to go to China, find my roots, dig deep down lol. Maybe I'm Chiu Chow? Idk, I wish someone would make a documentary about Asian Americans going back to their homeland to find their roots/relatives and so on. I'd be down to do that lol. Anyway, THANK YOU AGAIN!

i just watched this again after becoming so much more proud of my teochew identity.. and i'm tearing up. i used to feel so lost that everytime i said i was chinese people would automatically assume mandarin or cantonese. but i'm so proud now that i'm teochew and i actually spend my free time watching teochew old dramas. love. #gaginang

thank you for seriously making this video! I'm teochew-cambodian. Great-grandparents are from the Chaozhou area but parents and grandparents are from Cambodia!

I'm half teochew half Hakka. But I don't really speak those two languages. Heheh instead I speak mandarin and Cantonese

This is very interesting. It's cool to see another ethnic group that is similar to my ethnic group, Hmong. Although I have a Chinese last name and my parents were born in Laos, I identify as Hmong American, not Chinese or Lao. Thank you for this awesome knowledge!

This was beautiful. Thank you for educating me. And also proves better to ask than assume ;). I actually have a friend that she didn't know she was chui chow till recently!! She's 30!!! This was awesome. Thank you

Halfie here 😁... My father is full vietnamese and mother teowchew. Her parents immigrated from china to Vietnam where she was born. There is a strong sense of identity because of the segregation in Vietnam. In Cho Lon where she grew up, there was definitely a separation of vietnamese and Chinese, and even within the family, marrying a vietnamese person caused conflict. For the most part, growing up my cousins and i identified as Vietnamese because a few of my aunts and uncles married vietnamese people. To westerners i identify as Vietnamese to simplify things, but to other Asians Teowchew because I dont look like any particular ethnicity. Our family is quite blended in that conversations fluidly go between vietnamese, teochew and cantonese.

I'm Japanese American, so why can't they be called Chinese Vietnamese?? I have Chinese Thai friends and Chinese Filipino friends, they both and raised in Thailand and Philippines.

I just got goosebumps when they counted numbers. Any Thai-Chinese(Teochew) feel me?✋ I know there’re a lot of us😂

Thanks guys I really needed this. I'm half hakka and chiu chow, but born in thailand, raised in Monterey Park.

Damn this is actually something new i never even encountered before. But now that you guys brought it up I remember having friends who got some vietnamese connection but identify as Chinese. Even after 25 years still learnin' something new. Also shoutout to you guys coming out to NYC after your A&E event. It was fun meeting you guys. #stillwaitingforEastCoastvWestCoastAsiansvideo

uhhh....did anybody else count along with them when then counted to 10? hahahaha...

My family is definitely a bag of mixtures. On my mom's side, her mom's family is teochew from Vietnam who immigrated to Cambodia so already detached from China (last name Le), her dad's family is Cantonese who immigrated directly to Cambodia (last name Ng). On my dad's side, his mom's family is teochew in Cambodia (last name Teo) and his dad's side is full Cambodian (my last name is Cambodian). My grandparents speak Cantonese, Vietnamese, and teochew, but my parents are both culturally Cambodian and only speak Cambodian at home. When I ask my parents, they both identify as Cambodian, rather than Chinese or Vietnamese. I also speak Cambodian and French and not any Chinese dialect or Vietnamese. I kinda wish teochew and Vietnamese were passed down though. As for me, I personally identify as Cambodian-Chinese-American haha.

Thank you so much for making this video! This video has taught me to take pride in my ethnicity and has given me hope that there are more Chiu Chow people out there ! I've always struggled to explain myself to others when they ask me if I'm Chinese, Vietnamese or Cambodian. Thanks again !

Awesome video and 100% can relate 😆! My parents are Cambodian born Teochew nung, and I was born n raised in New Zealand so growing up was definitely confusing trying to explain ethnicity, culture and language! There's now a few thousand Teochews in NZ from the past generation that immigrated from Cambodia/Vietnam after the Khmer Rouge civil war (incl my family and first cousin side of the family). It's cool to see that there are more of our people out there and keeping the culture/identity alive 🤗

You guys should it a video on Taishan / Toishan people. :)

You forgot to mention Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. THere are many teochews in Malaysia and Singapore as well as Indo. Teochew is actually a Chinese dialect.

I found this video is really helpful!

OMG!!! it’s amazing to hear you guys speaking chaozhouese!!! and the phrase that Kane said actually means i miss you ;))))))

Waiting for the day when there will be a video about Okinawans food and Okinawans identity and how we are different from the Japanese and Ainu

YASSS MY CHIU CHOWS

Cambodian, Vietnamese Teochew grew up in New Zealand and currently living in Australia. Thanks for the vid, I need to brush up on my Teochew :)

They are heaps of Teo chew Nang in Malaysia and Singapore, in fact they are the earliest to arrive in Southeast Asia 2 generations ago due to their expertise in maritime and making business. I'm the 4th generation and I am proud to be teochew!

Here is more coolness for being chiuchow/teochew: many words are 99% same with Korean words. Such as student. (*yes, hakseng), danger or dangerous (*wiheom).

Can you guys cover hmong ethnicity?

I love this, thanks Fung bros and everyone else. I am Chiu Chao too and I love to hear other Gaginangs' thoughts! I feel like we are a group that is disappearing and we need to keep our heritage alive!

Thank you guys so much for this video! It's great you guys touched on the identity topic because here in Australia we have a large teo chew community and it's true, most of our parents come from other South East Asian countries. Our language isn't mainstream so they drop the Chinese part of themselves and stick to the other part.

one about cantonese people of china(guangdong) would be nice......

My upper body is asian but my low body is black.

this was informative, thanks!

Amazing! Never have I related to a group of people so much. Thanks for this! Joi sea

Hmong Identity Talk? Just an idea..

Teochews call themselves Deng Nang (Tang Ren - 唐人） - The Tang People (Tang Dynasty people).

There's A LOT of Teo Chews in South East Asia, like it's very widespread in every country, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand... So it's very strange to hear Chinese Americans talk about it like it's some very rare dialect group. haha

This video tackled an important aspect of Nationality vs Ethnicity. My dad is Portuguese and my mom is Japanese but born in Brazil, I was born in Brazil therefore I identify myself as a Japanese-Brazilian, not Portguese-Japanese, I grew up around the Japanese culture, from food, to family gatherings and everything, I just wasn't taught the language.

Hey oliviathai I thought our translation of our last name is 蔡. Choi in Cantonese and Cai in Mandarin. At least that is what my father told me.

Cambodian Teochew living in Paris France :)

Thank you for this.

My mother is of Teochew descent. She always says she is Chinese, although she cannot speak Chinese (it was forbidden during her childhood), has never been to China, and grew up in Indonesia. She was Confucian, celebrated all types of Chinese holidays, etc. I'm a hapa and usually just tell people I am German, and Ethnic Chinese Indonesian. I found this video really interesting!

HA Richie didn't contribute to this video

They look more like Vietnamese than Chinese

This was so nice & educational to watch. Also, I just saw the sneak peek of #WhatTheFung. Congrats guys.

This video is 100% spot on, thank you

It would have been nice to have a Chinese Cambodian (or Chinese Thai) instead of three Chinese Vietnamese... The Cantonese are actually the largest group of Chinese in Vietnam while the Teochew are the biggest group in Cambodia, Thailand and Laos...

Firstly, it's TEO CHEW!!!!! Not chiu chow.

This clears up my whole confused life. Thank you!

Dear FungBrosComedy thank you so so so so so so so so so so much. if you read this or not or won't reply and I don't want to be bashed on the internet for saying this, but tonight I watched your video, and I found out something and I went to ask my sister and now I know I'm a small part Teochew after living 20+ years on earth. Thank you Fung bros. I'm very speechless right now. The internet commenters can reply to me saying that I'm stupid or anything, I don't care anymore. I just wanna write this comment to thank fungbros. I have just got laughed at for not knowing. And before this vid I don't even know what chiu chow is because in my language it is called something different. Anyway, I have all the respect in the world for teochew people and keep watching Fungbros. Andrew and David, you my best people :)

Kane comes off as a condescending dude...

bang sai, pa li si ah

Very informative! Thanks! c:

First time I saw this video and I really love it!

Chaozhou people are AWESOME! They are well known for their smartness and strong business sense in comparison to the other Chinese. Some of the most successful Chinese people are Chaozhou people - like the RICHEST man in Asia - Li Ka-Shing, or the top tennis player Michael Chang, or the popular Hong Kong singer Wakin Chau.

who can speak teochew here?

I am late watching this video. But I think its super cool to learn about Chiu Chow people and their language. So Awesome. Plus I was just about to look up Olivia Thai in the You Tube search bar and her named popped up before I put the rest. Ol is what I put in the search bar. The is so cool.!!!

I am Teochew & thinking back past year how Teochew Opera was so good & meaningful and entertaining.