Ways to Tell if You are Chinese Options

[mystical]

You eat rice for breakfast.
Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
You remember or still use "the bowl" for haircuts.
Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
You never made the school football or basketball team.
You have two middle initials instead of one.
You have an inherent "fear" for bamboo feather dusters.
Your "hot" date is going to your parent’s house to have "jook".
Your living room sofas have covers on them.
You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and "popo" would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
You were told you all look alike.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
You have a hard time pronouncing "aluminum" and "lobster claw".
You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
You still have your old slide rule.
You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
Your stove is covered with tin foil.
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You have never used your dishwasher.
You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
You eat all meals in the kitchen.
You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
You only call long distance after 11 PM.
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.
You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
You own a wok.
You know what a "bow" is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
You never discuss your love life with your parents.
Your parents still use a clothes line.
You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
You keep most of your money in a savings account.
You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
You keep used batteries.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You’re always late.
You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
Your parents house is always cold.
You beat eggs with chopsticks.
You never use measuring cups.
You reuse tea bags.
You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
You never call your parents to say hi.
You always cook too much.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
Your parents never go to the movies.
You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
You iron your own shirts.
You play a musical instrument.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all "Price Club-size".
You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
You never order for room service.
You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
You know what MJ means.
You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
You have a piano in the living room.
You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
You know what the term "lemon" or a "banana" means.
You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
You never drank milk after eating cherries.
You’ve swallowed those tiny "BB’s" with hot tea for a tummy ache.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
You have no eyelashes!
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc.
Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow" into them and wear them for years to come.
Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
Your parents collect jade jewelry.
Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered "good stuff".
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
You always drink tea after a meal.
Your dad owns at least one bird.
Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!


Please don't flame me on some of the "ways" i did not make this up.

[faithin_felix]

You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.

hey, CBC
canadian borned child....

funny.

[hOeyx3]

most of them are truuuee.. but like haha some are just kinda exaqerateddd.. ya noes?! haha

but, yeah, in many ways i`m kinda like that..... beinq chinese nd all

[xjjajeengx]

OMG!!! THIS IS SOO FUNNY well i think some of them relate to koreans as well...

[EmeraldKnight]

LOL I love these

[Just_Dream]

You eat rice for breakfast.
Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
You remember or still use "the bowl" for haircuts.
Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma. 
You have an inherent "fear" for bamboo feather dusters.
Your living room sofas have covers on them.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
You were told you all look alike.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes. <<-- hahas hey I do!   
You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
Your stove is covered with tin foil. <<-- eh.. used to be
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You have never used your dishwasher.
You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
You eat all meals in the kitchen.
You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel. <<--- haha my mom has that!
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
You only call long distance after 11 PM.
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.
Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You never discuss your love life with your parents.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You’re always late.
You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
Your parents house is always cold.
You beat eggs with chopsticks.
You never use measuring cups.
You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks. 
You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it. 
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc.
You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
Your parents collect jade jewelry.
Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered "good stuff".
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.

that was SUCH a long list O_o" aahsh well I mean i don't know much of my chinese heritage, but wow surprisingly these are true =P

[pbear]

Oh wow.

I'm a lot more Chinese than I thought I was.

I guess being American-born doesn't change you much.

[kirbymuixo]

i fit a lot of these descriptions...lol

[huihead]

only like 10 or 15 of those things apply for me.. ;x

[Flaunted]

whoa!! most of them are true! thats scary.
that was so funny

[China_Man_11]

You never made the school football or basketball team.

hey i made the bball team. and i was MVP most valuable player

[tofumonzter]

I fit in a lot of them. I'm proud that I'm a chinese.

[FlyingFries]

funny

[Mizz Cindy Tron]

You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
Your stove is covered with tin foil
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math. <--I suck at it
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc. <--I get pissed when they do that
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat. <--Painful but works
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle". <--Yup and my idiot friends think I'm "stupid" for callin them that;just becuz "auntie & uncle" aren't "blood related."
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it. <--mom makes me
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home. <--hahaha true true

[dani41790]

lmao yup im definatly part chinese

[ref_inn_ej]

i'm chinese but only a few fit me...
i'm a canadian born chinese.. hmmm... weird... my family isnt really that chinese anyway.. hhahha but reading that was FUNNY

[lemonlina]

Lolx, they have so many of those going around! xD

[islandkiss]

lmao. I always sneak in snacks when I go to the movies.

[brokenskys]

haha only the bolded ones are true. i guess im not very chinese. im half chinese and half malay but im from canada and live in texas now... maybe thats why?

You eat rice for breakfast.
Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
You remember or still use "the bowl" for haircuts.
Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
You never made the school football or basketball team.
You have two middle initials instead of one.
You have an inherent "fear" for bamboo feather dusters.
Your "hot" date is going to your parent’s house to have "jook".
Your living room sofas have covers on them.
You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and "popo" would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
You were told you all look alike.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
You have a hard time pronouncing "aluminum" and "lobster claw".
You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
You still have your old slide rule.
You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
Your stove is covered with tin foil.
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You have never used your dishwasher.
You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
You eat all meals in the kitchen.
You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
You only call long distance after 11 PM.
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.
You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
You own a wok.
You know what a "bow" is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
You never discuss your love life with your parents.
Your parents still use a clothes line.
You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
You keep most of your money in a savings account.
You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
You keep used batteries.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You’re always late.
You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
Your parents house is always cold.
You beat eggs with chopsticks.
You never use measuring cups.
You reuse tea bags.
You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
You never call your parents to say hi.
You always cook too much.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
Your parents never go to the movies.
You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
You iron your own shirts.
You play a musical instrument.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all "Price Club-size".
You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
You never order for room service.
You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
You know what MJ means.
You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
You have a piano in the living room.
You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
You know what the term "lemon" or a "banana" means.
You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
You never drank milk after eating cherries.
You’ve swallowed those tiny "BB’s" with hot tea for a tummy ache.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
You have no eyelashes!
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc.
Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow" into them and wear them for years to come.
Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
Your parents collect jade jewelry.
Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered "good stuff".
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
You always drink tea after a meal.
Your dad owns at least one bird.
Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!

[x_swtangel]

You eat rice for breakfast.
Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
You remember or still use "the bowl" for haircuts.
Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
You never made the school football or basketball team.
You have two middle initials instead of one.
You have an inherent "fear" for bamboo feather dusters.
Your "hot" date is going to your parent’s house to have "jook".
Your living room sofas have covers on them.
You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and "popo" would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
You were told you all look alike.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
You have a hard time pronouncing "aluminum" and "lobster claw".
You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
You still have your old slide rule.
You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
Your stove is covered with tin foil.
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You have never used your dishwasher.
You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
You eat all meals in the kitchen.
You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
You only call long distance after 11 PM.
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.
You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
You own a wok.
You know what a "bow" is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
You never discuss your love life with your parents.
Your parents still use a clothes line.
You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
You keep most of your money in a savings account.
You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
You keep used batteries.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You’re always late.
You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
Your parents house is always cold.
You beat eggs with chopsticks.
You never use measuring cups.
You reuse tea bags.
You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
You never call your parents to say hi.
You always cook too much.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
Your parents never go to the movies.
You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
You iron your own shirts.
You play a musical instrument.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all "Price Club-size".
You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
You never order for room service.
You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
You know what MJ means.
You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
You have a piano in the living room.
You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
You know what the term "lemon" or a "banana" means.
You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
You never drank milk after eating cherries.
You’ve swallowed those tiny "BB’s" with hot tea for a tummy ache.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
You have no eyelashes!
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc.
Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow" into them and wear them for years to come.
Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
Your parents collect jade jewelry.
Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered "good stuff".
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
You always drink tea after a meal.
Your dad owns at least one bird.
Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!

don't you think its kind of mean?

[ComradeRed]

But it's funny, so it works out.

[amiie]

lol thats hilarious.
only a few fits me though.

[slurp]

i find most of them not applying for me almost all, i guess im not that chinese eh?

[slurp]

HEY Thats not true... not all lols i dont eat rice for breakfast... not all the time.. lmao

[ji_cabinx]

i really don't need all that to tell me is i'm chinese or not

[vivieeeen]

why are there negative comments?
i knew myself better after reading this....

I AM CHINESE AND DANG PROUD i don't know.. that sounds weird ahahaha

but honestly.. the "comparing with friends' kids" bit? sooooooooo true

[babygurl_xtacy]

i guess im not chinese.. lol

[ichiban]

o.O I DONT THINK IM CHINESE!

[*jooleeah*]

wow....every single one of those except for like...10 were true. this is scary.

i don't eat rice for breakfast but a lot of that stuff is true o_o bye the way, im on my schools girl football team xp

[gelionie]

You eat rice for breakfast.
Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
You remember or still use "the bowl" for haircuts.
Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
You never made the school football or basketball team.
You have two middle initials instead of one.
You have an inherent "fear" for bamboo feather dusters.
Your "hot" date is going to your parent’s house to have "jook".
Your living room sofas have covers on them.
You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and "popo" would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
You were told you all look alike.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
You have a hard time pronouncing "aluminum" and "lobster claw".
You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
You still have your old slide rule.
You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
Your stove is covered with tin foil.
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You have never used your dishwasher.
You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
You eat all meals in the kitchen.
You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
You only call long distance after 11 PM.
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.
You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
You own a wok.
You know what a "bow" is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
You never discuss your love life with your parents.
Your parents still use a clothes line.
You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
You keep most of your money in a savings account.
You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
You keep used batteries.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You’re always late.
You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
Your parents house is always cold.
You beat eggs with chopsticks.
You never use measuring cups.
You reuse tea bags.
You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
You never call your parents to say hi.
You always cook too much.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
Your parents never go to the movies.
You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
You iron your own shirts.
You play a musical instrument.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all "Price Club-size".
You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
You never order for room service.
You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
You know what MJ means.
You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
You have a piano in the living room.
You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
You know what the term "lemon" or a "banana" means.
You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
You never drank milk after eating cherries.
You’ve swallowed those tiny "BB’s" with hot tea for a tummy ache.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
You have no eyelashes!
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc.
Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow" into them and wear them for years to come.
Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
Your parents collect jade jewelry.
Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered "good stuff".
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
You always drink tea after a meal.
Your dad owns at least one bird.
Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!


Please don't flame me on some of the "ways" i did not make this up.

I am 100% Chinese + I live in Hong Kong.
Strangely, only a few of the facts fit me:
(the ones which are underlined and are in bold font)

[banana_fish89]

u make us chinese ppl look really cheap in this joke (which is btw, very funny and most even true). about how i hav pillows with covers, batteries tat turned black because they r so lold, giving oranges and fruits to ppl, my grandma hoo usd to smell like mothballs from her dresser, a thousand toliet papers stashed in the closet next to the bathroom, we never touched our dishwasher, always hav our leftovers from a restaurant packd up n brought baq home, noe wat abc (food- type of ice with flavors n beans n corn), fob (loads of ppl at my skool r), MJ (i game i have still to win big at) and more but im too tired to list. really funny joke...lols.

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[lilbabicarmi]

dat ish sho0 true n one other thing. ib yoo da onli child, yoor parents make yoo do most ob da work round da house. xD
-carmi

[juliar]

You eat rice for breakfast.
Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
You remember or still use "the bowl" for haircuts.
Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
You never made the school football or basketball team.
You have two middle initials instead of one.
You have an inherent "fear" for bamboo feather dusters.
Your "hot" date is going to your parent’s house to have "jook".
Your living room sofas have covers on them.
You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and "popo" would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
You were told you all look alike.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
You have a hard time pronouncing "aluminum" and "lobster claw".
You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
You still have your old slide rule.
You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
Your stove is covered with tin foil.
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You have never used your dishwasher.
You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
You eat all meals in the kitchen.
You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
You only call long distance after 11 PM.
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.
You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
You own a wok.
You know what a "bow" is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
You never discuss your love life with your parents.
Your parents still use a clothes line.
You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
You keep most of your money in a savings account.
You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
You keep used batteries.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You’re always late.
You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
Your parents house is always cold.
You beat eggs with chopsticks.
You never use measuring cups.
You reuse tea bags.
You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
You never call your parents to say hi.
You always cook too much.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
Your parents never go to the movies.
You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
You iron your own shirts.
You play a musical instrument.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all "Price Club-size".
You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
You never order for room service.
You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
You know what MJ means.
You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
You have a piano in the living room.
You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
You know what the term "lemon" or a "banana" means.
You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
You never drank milk after eating cherries.
You’ve swallowed those tiny "BB’s" with hot tea for a tummy ache.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
You have no eyelashes!
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc.
Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow" into them and wear them for years to come.
Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
Your parents collect jade jewelry.
Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered "good stuff".
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
You always drink tea after a meal.
Your dad owns at least one bird.
Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!


Please don't flame me on some of the "ways" i did not make this up.

[BeyondElite]

I eat rice for breakfast! And I also know how to Kung Fu! Weird: Oh! It's because Filipinos are half spanish, half malaysian and half CHINESE.!

[LJrules]

hahah, wells, i live in china riot now, n i've seen a lotta dis stuff. a lotta these are true.....

You eat rice for breakfast.
Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
You remember or still use "the bowl" for haircuts.
Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
You never made the school football or basketball team.
You have two middle initials instead of one.
You have an inherent "fear" for bamboo feather dusters.
Your "hot" date is going to your parent’s house to have "jook".
Your living room sofas have covers on them.
You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and "popo" would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
You were told you all look alike.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
You have a hard time pronouncing "aluminum" and "lobster claw".
You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
You still have your old slide rule.
You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
Your stove is covered with tin foil.
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You have never used your dishwasher.
You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
You eat all meals in the kitchen.
You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
You only call long distance after 11 PM.
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.
You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
You own a wok.
You know what a "bow" is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
You never discuss your love life with your parents.
Your parents still use a clothes line.
You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
You keep most of your money in a savings account.
You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
You keep used batteries.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You’re always late.
You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
Your parents house is always cold.
You beat eggs with chopsticks.
You never use measuring cups.
You reuse tea bags.
You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
You never call your parents to say hi.
You always cook too much.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
Your parents never go to the movies.
You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
You iron your own shirts.
You play a musical instrument.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all "Price Club-size".
You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
You never order for room service.
You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
You know what MJ means.
You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
You have a piano in the living room.
You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
You know what the term "lemon" or a "banana" means.
You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
You never drank milk after eating cherries.
You’ve swallowed those tiny "BB’s" with hot tea for a tummy ache.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
You have no eyelashes!
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc.
Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow" into them and wear them for years to come.
Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children. <LOL
Your parents collect jade jewelry.
Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered "good stuff".
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
You always drink tea after a meal.
Your dad owns at least one bird. <i own six budgies
Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility). <gawd, i suck at it...
You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!

[pnkstar]

haha im chinese and proud of it! its scary how many of those apply to me

[pm3k]

hey, CBC
canadian borned child....

funny.

isn't it canadian born chinese?

how ironic that we live pretty like.. around 30 minutes from each other since our schools aren't pretty far apart

BEING CHINESE RULES!!!!

[LatinaLady]

HOLD ON> Everyone STOP.
do asians really eat rice for breakfast its wierd to me.

[joanna0304]

that's so funny

[whomps]

DAmn... I didn't even have to read half of that and most of them are true.

[Caitlin]

HOLD ON> Everyone STOP.
do asians really eat rice for breakfast its wierd to me.

hmm im half asian but I dont.
i know some who do though

[loljuliana]

ahaha, i was cracking up while i was reading these =)
so true

[KELLYYY]

You eat rice for breakfast.
Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
You remember or still use "the bowl" for haircuts.
Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up. (Haha, PoPo. xD)
You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
You never made the school football or basketball team.
You have two middle initials instead of one.
You have an inherent "fear" for bamboo feather dusters.
Your "hot" date is going to your parent’s house to have "jook".
Your living room sofas have covers on them.
You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
Your grandmother smell like mothballs. (Not to be mean. xD)
You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and "popo" would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
You were told you all look alike.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
You have a hard time pronouncing "aluminum" and "lobster claw".
You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
You still have your old slide rule.
You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
Your stove is covered with tin foil.
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You have never used your dishwasher.
You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
You eat all meals in the kitchen.
You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
You only call long distance after 11 PM.
You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
You know what the term "FOB" and "ABC" means.
You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
You own a wok.
You know what a "bow" is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
You never discuss your love life with your parents.
Your parents still use a clothes line.
You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
You keep most of your money in a savings account.
You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
You keep used batteries.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You’re always late.
You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
Your parents house is always cold.
You beat eggs with chopsticks.
You never use measuring cups.
You reuse tea bags.
You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
You never call your parents to say hi.
You always cook too much.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
Your parents never go to the movies.
You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
You iron your own shirts.
You play a musical instrument.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all "Price Club-size".
You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
You never order for room service.
You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
You know what MJ means.
You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
You have a piano in the living room.
You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
You know what the term "lemon" or a "banana" means.
You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
You never drank milk after eating cherries.
You’ve swallowed those tiny "BB’s" with hot tea for a tummy ache.
Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
You have no eyelashes!
Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular "ching chong woo bok chi"…etc.
Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow" into them and wear them for years to come.
Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
Your parents collect jade jewelry.
Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered "good stuff".
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
You always drink tea after a meal.
Your dad owns at least one bird.
Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!
Please don't flame me on some of the "ways" i did not make this up.

I'm Asian, duh.

[FoOd]

I dunno, but it doesnt apply to me...

[jue]

hahas.
some of htem apply to me

[kaB00M]

Most of those apply to me.
Lol. I'm not chinese though.

[clarissa]

I'm part chinese but I was raised in a filipino household.. but a lot of those were true for me. haha.

[separatewings]

LOL.. Majority of them are true!

[sweet_devil]

i live in china and most chinese ppl i kno, including my ayi r not like that much at all...and i'm not even chinese and do some of the stuff on the list...didn't make me laugh...-__-

[sweet_devil]

I eat rice for breakfast!  And I also know how to Kung Fu!   Weird:  Oh!  It's because Filipinos are half spanish, half malaysian and half CHINESE.!

u would be a third of each, not half of 3 things...

[emazing]

This is so true for me xD

-You keep used batteries.
-Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
-Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow" into them and wear them for years to come.
-You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
-You fight over who pays the dinner bill (My relatives do that...)
-Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.

[datass]

You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
You have two middle initials instead of one.
You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
You own a wok.
You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
You keep used batteries.
You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
You never use measuring cups.
You never call your parents to say hi.
Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
You never order for room service.
Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
You own a rice cooker.
You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
You have a piano in the living room.
You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
You either love or hate "mooncakes".
Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
You like $1.75 movies
You like $1.50 movies even more!
Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
You call all your parents friends "auntie or uncle".
You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!

teeehee...

[TheReasonWhy]

some of them are true to me lol!

[paopuu]

Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.

That is too true. Noise hurts.

[megan_x3]

You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.

i hate those ! my mom always assume that it helps when your sick.. i hate those ... and the one with people paying for each other.. all of them almost applied to me ... -.- i feel so chinese

[*xcaitlinx*]

haha i'm not chinese at all and it shows....like 5 of them are true.

[*swtcherriipie*]

Darn! guess im not chinesse. lol

[*salcha*]

This is sad.
Almost all of them apply to me ._.

[sense.n.style]

OMG!!! THIS IS SOO FUNNY well i think some of them relate to koreans as well...

same here

[honeyally]

Hardly any of these apply to me... O.o

[ParanoidAndroid]

in class this guy asked me if was spanish

and my other guy friend said, "Are you retarded? She's friggin Chinse, can't you see that she:

*has small eyes
*eats rice
*looks like she knows kung fu
*is obedient
*doesn't like to spend money
*is strict
*uptight
*pretty<33 (lol that was sweet of him)
*small eyes (lol he said it again)
*eats dove
*eats dog
*and eats shrimp that she has to shell?

only half your "stuff" apply to me but what he said applied to all of me