The series also starred Zoe Tay, Chew Chor Meng and Zeng Huifen, The Teochew Family tells the story of Chaozhou rice merchant Cai Qingyang, owns Tai Feng Zhan (泰丰栈).
Cai Qingyang decides to arrange a marriage between his second brother's widow with a poor scholar Xiao Denglong, who turns out to be Chuning's lover.
Soon, Qingyang manages to bring the whole family down to Singapore except for his wife Zhang Yalan who stayed to protect the ancestral home.
The Teochew Family was a major production by Television Corporation of Singapore and was the first drama serial on a dialect group.
[1] It was produced by Chua Swan and written by Hong Kong veteran storyteller Cheng Jieyin (程洁茵) and Singaporean writer Koh Teng Liang (许声亮), To add authenticity to the show, the drama was filmed in Shantou, Guandong, China.
According to Singaporean author Rong Zi (蓉子),[3] who served as consultant for the show, in her book Tonight I Think Of Singapore, she believed that this was one of Chua Swan's most difficult productions ever.
During filming in China, Tsang was noted behaving badly and allegedly "scolded Chinese policemen, beat local children" and refusal to toast to county official during a festival dinner.
The Teochew Family's ratings and critical success led to TCS to produce two more other dialect group-related Dramas which are Hainan Kopi Tales and The Guest People.
The Teochew Family was also known to have the distinction of having Cantopop singer Jacky Cheung to sing the theme song.