Teochew Foodie | Chinese specialties on the Plateau

Chaozhou, also called Teochew, is a city located in Guangdong Province in southern China. This is where Alexandre Rougerie-Durocher and Chanel Dai met a dozen years ago. Today, the couple own two Chinese take-out counters (Teochew Foodie), one in Saint-Henri and the other, brand new, rue Saint-Denis.

Eve Dumas
The Press

A dozen varieties of wontons, surprising rolls of rice noodles stuffed with meat, shrimp or vegetables, braised duck (lou mei), a few salads and delicious sauces for dipping make up the bulk of the offer. . There is ready-to-eat, prepared the same day, then frozen to stock your freezer. Nothing helps you out on a busy weeknight better than a package of delicious wontons prepared by Mama Dai.

Teochew Foodie was born to allow Chanel’s parents to live their dream of opening a restaurant and having a job in Montreal. They came to join their daughter and their son-in-law in Quebec in 2019. It was first in the kitchen of the young couple that the concept was born. Word of mouth and social networks have done their job. The clientele grew rapidly. Then a first store opened in the South-West, at the corner of rue Saint-Philippe and rue Saint-Antoine.

We visited the most spacious new address on rue Saint-Denis, south of Duluth. The shelves are lined with jars of the Dai family’s famous crispy spicy oil (like Anita Feng’s “red oil”), ingredients for Chinese cooking at home, including a tasty toasted sesame paste that serves to make any of the house wonton dressings, vinegars, etc. The freezers are overflowing with wontons. There’s even one near the entrance filled with dim sum specialties from Kim Fung’s restaurant in Chinatown.

We can be delighted to find such a diversity of healthy, delicate and high quality Chinese specialties in the heart of the Plateau.

3964A Saint-Denis Street, Montreal