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My little #nephew playing with my blue rain drum ☺️

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #Biracial #FunTime #MakingMemories #drum #Saanich #AsianFamilies #Playing #Musical #SteelDrum #RainDrum #FamilyBonding #FamilyTime #MakingMusic #Drummer #SweetKid #ChildrenAreSacred #FamilyPhotos

A young child with blonde hair sits cross-legged on a couch covered with blankets, holding a blue steel tongue drum. The child wears a red and white plaid shirt and navy pants, and they are holding a mallet, poised to strike the drum. They are looking at the camera with a slight smile. Sunlight streams in from the window behind them, next to plants.

My #nephew looking at garden photos with my Mom. He is still learning words. So very cute how he says Buddha & flowers 🥰❤️
My nephew LOVES nature. He enjoys plants & helping out in the gardens.

#FamilyTime #FamilyBonding #AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #Biracial #MakingMemories #Saanich #AsianFamilies #GrandmaAndGrandson #Adorable #LearningWords #Family

My #nephew is still too small for the #tricycle I got him last year.

#FamilyTime #FamilyBonding #playtime #AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #Biracial #FunTime #MakingMemories #SpringFun #Saanich #AsianFamilies #Trike

My #nephew trying to sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star but he forgot the lyrics ❤️💗❤️

#FamilyTime #FamilyBonding & #playtime #AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #Biracial #FunTime #MakingMemories #SpringFun #Saanich #AsianFamilies #Singing #KidsVoices #ChildSinging #KidSongs

Raven (Heng) smooshed his face, catching the ball toss from his Dad(my middle brother).

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #Biracial #FunTime #MakingMemories #SpringFun #Saanich #AsianFamilies #Playing #Family

My little nephew holding a blue & white ball that smooshed his face. My brother, his Dad, is standing on the right.

My little #nephew loves to play with balls of all sizes.

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My little #nephew playing fishing game & being taught numbers in Teochew & English languages ❤️

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #Biracial #FunTime #MakingMemories #SpringFun #Saanich #AsianFamilies #Playing #FamilyBonding #GrandmaAndGrandson

#FamilyTime
My middle brother brought my little #nephew over for some #FamilyBonding & #playtime 💞

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Gaginang #Biracial #FunTime #MakingMemories #SpringFun #Saanich #AsianFamilies #Playing

Some of my past #SelfPortraits from 2013-2015.

#Photographer #Selfies #AsianMastodon #Teochew #ChineseVietnamese #PeopleWithDisabilities #portraits #photography #Quirky #collage #POCWomen #GenX

A grid-like collage with 6 individual portraits. The top row contains three portraits: one in color showing me with rainbow colored hair, another in black and white with me looking directly at the camera, and the last one in black and white of me with hair in a bun and wearing large earrings. The second row has two portraits: one in black and white showing me with hair pulled back, and another close-up in black and white of me wearing 3 pairs of sunglasses together. The final portrait is located in the lower-left corner and is a color image of me their head tilted back, wearing dark makeup and red lipstick. The lighting and composition in each portrait varies, creating a dynamic and visually appealing arrangement.

#ThrowbackThursday
2017.

A #portrait that Danielle took of me at Wheelies Motorcycles & Cafe, in the Rock Bay area of #VictoriaBC - for a charity ride event.

https://www.wheeliesmotorcycles.ca/

Photo by:
https://www.dlindenlaubphotography.com/

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #POCWomen #PeopleWithDisabilities #motorcycles #Bikers #YYJ #VancouverIsland #monochrome

Monochrome shot of me, positioned prominently on a white motorcycle. Handlebars are chrome, detailed. Soft focus on the background showing pedestrians and parked vehicles. High contrast and desaturation creates a vintage aesthetic. "D. Lindenlaub Photography" watermark in the bottom right corner.

My nephew, Raven, loves the fire truck I got him.

#AsianMastodon #BiracialChild #Family #Teochew #Gaginang

A young boy child lies on a patterned rug, close to a red toy fire truck with a white ladder. The child, with blonde hair & wearing a red hoodie, looks intently at the truck.

Where to get Teochew Vietnamese or Cambodian noodles in LA and OC:

This list is from Andrea Nguyen's story: https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2019-08-30/hu-tieu-chinese-vietnamese-cambodian-noodles

Los Angeles County:

- Golden Lake Eatery, 424 W. College St., Los Angeles
- Kim Chuy, 727 N. Broadway #103, Los Angeles
- Kim Kee Noodle Cafe, 441 W. Garvey Ave., Monterey Park
- Kim Ky Noodle House, 1108 S. San Gabriel Blvd., San Gabriel and 15041 Moran St., #107, Westminster
- Mien Nghia Noodle Express, 7755 E. Garvey Ave., Rosemead
- Phnom Penh Noodle Shack, 1644 Cherry Ave., Long Beach

Orange County:

- Co Ba, 10642 Westminster Ave., Garden Grove
- Hu Tieu Thanh Xuan, 9191 Bolsa Ave., Ste. 104-105, Westminster
- Phuong’s Restaurant, 10722 Westminster Ave., Garden Grove
-Trieu Chau Restaurant, 4401 W. 1st St., Santa Ana

#Food #LosAngeles #ChineseFood #Noodles #Teochew

I just spent 10 minutes zooming into every dish and menu item from a Cambodian restaurant in Seattle to check if it was truly serving the Cambodian Teochew food that I was wanting (very similar to the Vietnamese Teochew and Singapore Teochew food I like). I think it is, but the best way to confirm is to check by eating there (tomorrow).

One of the challenges of looking for familiar foods is I can find it across many 'countries' but it's the same dish but with a different name in another language. There are some hints, though.

Kuay teow in Thai, Kuy teav in Khmer, kway teow in Malay, all from the same root words in Teochew

#Food #Seattle #TootSea #Teochew

I was telling a friend about the old Teochew names for Southeast Asian cities.

I wrote it down somewhere and I want to make a map of old SE Asian port names in Teochew

Swatow, homeland of the Teochews, was one of the first ports in China to open internationally hundreds of years ago. Many of these names I heard from my grandparents, still hear among older people from Vietnam and Thailand, but all the names are being replaced by Mandarin place names now.

I did this research some time ago

- Pontianak, Kalimantan was 坤甸 (khun diang)
- Jakarta was 巴斜 (pah sia)
- Phnom Penh was 金塔 (ghim tahp)

https://popagandhi.com/posts/tan-boon-chye/

#Teochew #Languages #Chinese #TootSea

"Chen Yaozuo was a #Teochew prime minister & grand tutor of the crown prince of the #SongDynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century. Coming from a family of officials, he was a rising star at the start of his career, until he bravely, or some might say foolishly, answered a call of Emperor Zhenzong for open criticisms by submitting a memorial that spelt out the ills of the times, including matters that no one else dared to speak about. As a result, Chen Yaozuo was banished & demoted to become an assistant prefect in the Teochew prefecture. This happened in 998, almost 180 years after Han Yu of the Tang dynasty suffered a similar fate."

"....Chen Yaozuo was more of a problem-solver than Han Yu, and he knew this. At the same time, he sensed the Teochew people’s deep admiration for his fellow Confucian. Cleverly capitalising on this, Chen Yaozuo erected a shrine in honour of Han Yu and he used it to commence his own programme to promote education among what was still a backward population. In pursuit of this goal, the Sichuan native also set up a Confucian temple and places of learning, while identifying and encouraging able families to send their children to schools.

Chen Yaozuo left Teochew after three years of devoted service to its people. He subsequently revealed in an inscription presented to a study room in Zhangpu (a county in Fujian adjacent to Teochew prefecture) that his time in Teo-yor was passed without major worries, despite it being enveloped in miasma."

"Chen Yaozuo’s heart remained with the place even many years after his departure. His poem below, “A note to Registrar Li Zi in Chaoyang” (送潮陽李孜主簿), illustrates this:

潮陽山水東南奇
The mountains and waters of Chaoyang are a wonder of the Southeast
魚鹽城郭民熙熙
Fishing boats, salt beds, and people going in and out of the city form a merry sight
當時為撰玄聖碑
Back then I had to write inscriptions for the sages
而今風俗鄒魯為。
Today its customs are like Zou and Lu [i.e. the home countries of Mencius and Confucius]

#Chinese #historians credit Han Yu for starting what we may call a #revolution through #literacy in Teochew. Yet the extent of Chen Yaozuo’s tireless contributions towards this cause can be seen by its fruits. Before his arrival, the Teochew prefecture produced only three men who attained the status of jinshi, the highest scholarly title awarded by the Chinese imperial court since the late 6th century. By the end of Song, the records show more than 170 jinshi from Teochew, of whom about a third came from Teo-yor.

Beyond scholarly titles, the creation of an educated class sparked a golden age in Teochew with accelerated advancements in agriculture and industry that ended its days as a backwater."

Ref: https://inf.news/en/history/08fbe530527e724eeeee5320bff4f3b9.html

Ref: https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/teochew-through-the-eyes-of-its-visitors-chen-yaozou-an-unsung-hero

#AsianMastodon #China #Gaginang #ChineseRevolutionaries #ChineseImperialEra #TeochewHistory #ChineseHistory #AsianHistory #SouthEastAsia #HistoryOfChina #LearnHistory #TootSEA #ChineseScholars #TeochewRoots

Historical portrait of Chen Yaozuo (963－1044)

Qing dynasty map of the Teochew prefecture and its extensive rivers. Circled in red is the Teochew prefectural city (潮州, a.k.a. Chaozhou) and in blue is the county city of Teo-yor (潮陽, a.k.a. Chaoyang)

The walled entrance to Leng-ou Citadel (龍湖古寨), near the Teochew prefectural city. This historical settlement has a Temple of Three Kings (三王廟)，which is dedicated to Chen Yaozou and his two brothers, who were also high-ranked ministers of the Song dynasty.

Things to keep me afloat: Wuyi Origin’s Fan Shu Xiang (sweet potato scent) oolong.

As a Chaozhou person I have a deeply held preference for Chaozhou style oolongs and this (and other dancongs and ya shi) are my faves. Can I have many faves?

https://www.wuyiorigin.com/products/fan-shu-xiang-sweet-potato-scent%E7%95%AA%E8%96%AF%E9%A6%99-2024

#Tea @tea #Chaozhou #Teochew

A photo of the sweet potato scent oolong tea leaves

A photo of the packaging from Wuyi origin. Next to it is the tea in a clear pot

@jkn @ncoca
My #Taigi is of a mix of Chiang-chiu and Choan-chiu accents (see graph) so perhaps it gives me some sensitivity in the ear. There are a lot more dialects in #Hokkien not listed in this graph eg #Teochew is another major missing here too

Coloured coded Hokkien dialects in China and in Taiwan

I was posting about my grandfather and Swatow yesterday. I wrote a little thing about him which was published in an anthology of Singapore writing.

https://popagandhi.com/posts/a-drinkable-history-of-my-family/

#TootSea #Singapore #Teochew #Swatow #Shantou #Chinese #Food #Writing

#Teochew

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