They tend to speak Mandarin with a heavy Cantonese accent, but when chatting together in the market they use Minnan (Southern Fujianese), or Putian, another native dialect. Says Lin Han-chang: "People of Putian ancestry usually sell jade, while those from Quanzhou sell antiques." But the divisions are not always so precise.
通常他們的國語帶著濃濃的「廣東味」，攤主人彼此的交談則用閩南話或莆田話，「通常莆田人賣玉，泉州人賣古董」，林漢章說，但有時界線也會打破。