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- Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:50 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Penang Hokkien
- Replies: 206
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Hello all! Thank you for your warm welcome. Sim, I never lived in Terengganu but I had spent most of my holidays there and my family has spoken the peculiar dialect for more than 10 generations now. As in Penang Hokkien, rice is pnui instead of peng (like in Malacca Hokkien), chicken is kay instead ...
- Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:22 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Penang Hokkien
- Replies: 206
- Views: 303092
Re: Penang Hokkien
Secondly, the English dictionary describes the 'ketchup' as coming from preserved fishsauce. Well, this tells us two important things. First is that tomatos are very different from fish, and second, the English man may have seen this preserved fish sauce which actually came from salt-water fish and...