You know you're Chiu Chow if...

- Your parents told you they found you in a trashcan/dumpster. They felt sorry for you and took you into the family.

- You have relatives in many different parts of the world.

- You take several minutes to explain to someone that you are Diojiu (Teochew, Teochiu, ChiuChow, etc.) and not Mandarin or Cantonese!

- You are afraid of feather dusters.

- You love mue! (aka: congee, rice gruel)

- You've got a plastic-wrapped remote control.

This list actually comes from an amazing Chiu Chow website (http://www.gaginang.org/joomla/)

Here are a couple of other good websites:

http://teochiu.tripod.com/dbgintro.htm

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/teochew.htm

Sorry but I have found very little on an audio teaching Chiu Chow, but Gaginang is making an effort to create audio/videos to teach Chiu Chow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh3ZEEf6zKM

Another problem is that since Chiu Chows now inhabit so many parts of the world they all speak with a different accent/dialect. But I'm not going to give up!