Easily the most famous of the Chinese cuisines, Teochew cuisine originates from Chaoshan, a region of China in the easternmost area of the Guangdong Province.
Teochew cuisine is particularly well known for its seafood dishes and is often regarded as being very healthy. 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 flavor.
Authentic Chaozhou restaurants serve very strong Oolong tea called Tieguanyin in very tiny cups before and after the meal. This is Gongfu cha and is a very strong tea which has a bittersweet taste.
