When I was in Perth last week, I realised that we do have many Teochews in SHC. I am a Teochew, and I only speak teochew with my parents. Today, I have not had opportunities to speak teochew with many people. My hougang gang have always told me that teochews have red "ka chng", and I believe this must be the first criteria for someone to be called a teochew.<\/p>\n
Teochews should also be able to understand teochew jokes. I think it is fun if not memorable to view some video clips from youtube, using search words "teochew joke" or "teohew language" or "teochew show". So, knowing at least two teochew jokes, comedies or songs would be the second criteria for someone to be a teochew.<\/p>\n
The third criteria is if one of your parents is a teochew, I also think we can classify you as a teochew. But, must have evidence.<\/p>\n
The last criteria is the teochew clan must recognise you. I guess if you can get two teochews to certify you as a teochew, this should be good enough.<\/p>\n
Perhaps, at the end of this year, we can have a teochew dinner for teochews. So, Let’s start by checking the backside.<\/p>\n
Terence Seah<\/p>\n
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When I was in Perth last week, I realised that we do have many Teochews in SHC. I am a Teochew, and I only speak teochew with my parents. Today, I have not had opportunities to speak teochew with many people. My hougang gang have always told me that teochews have red "ka chng", and I believe this must be the first criteria … Continue reading “Do we have enough Teochew nan in SHC?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}