This article examines Dear You (Gei A Ma de Qingshu) as a work of Chaozhou cinema, focusing on how its portrayal of qiaopi reconstructs diasporic memory and transnational Chinese identity. Combining family letters and remittances, qiaopi becomes an affective medium linking Chaozhou and Thailand through the film’s portrayals of food, dialect, and women’s care. More specifically, the film uses Chaozhou dialect, food, and domestic space to turn regional culture into a lived form of transnational belonging. The circulation of qiaopi further connects migration, remittance, waiting, and intergenerational memory across Chaozhou and Thailand, highlighting women’s everyday labor in sustaining transnational family continuity. Close readings of key scenes involving ghostwriting, remittances, letter reading, and the revelation of the truth show how Chaozhou identity is sustained through cross-border practices of care. The ghostwritten letters provide Ye Shurou with material and emotional support, yet their prolonged concealment also denies her the chance to learn of her husband’s death. The film thus presents an asymmetrical form of transnational kinship in which archival authenticity, emotional authenticity, and moral legitimacy remain in tension.