Chaoshan covers Chaozhou (
潮州), Shantou (
汕头) and Jieyang (
揭阳) in eastern Guangdong. It has its own Min-family language (
潮汕话) - unintelligible to Mandarin or Cantonese speakers - and a famous food scene: thin-sliced beef hotpot, gongfu tea (
功夫茶), and oyster omelette (
蚝烙).
