88 Ways know you're Chinese, Here's da chinese version! Options

[pm3k]

I didn't make this one up... It was a chain letter I received years ago =P

1. Your parents use traditional, herbal remedies for everything under the sun. Ex. Steamed apple for coughs, swallow's nest for your skin, etc.
2. You like to eat chicken feet, duck gizzards, and cow tongues.
3. You suck on fish heads and fish fins.
4. You have a Chinese knick-knack hanging on your rear view mirror.
5. You sing karaoke.
6. Your house is covered with tile.
7. Your kitchen is covered by a sticky film of grease.
8. Your stove is covered with aluminium foil.
9. You leave the plastic covers on your remote control.
10. You've never kissed your mom or dad.
11. You've never hugged your mom or dad.
12. Your unassisted vision is worse than 20/500.
13. You wear contacts, to avoid wearing your "coke bottle glasses".
14. You've worn glasses since you were in fifth grade.
15. You can and do speak some form of Chinese with perfect fluency.
16. You'll haggle over something that is not negotiable.
17. You love to use coupons.
18. You drive around looking for the cheapest petrol.
19. You drive around for hours in the parking lot lookin for the best place to park.
20. You take showers at night.
21. You avoid the non-complimented snacks in hotel rooms.
22. You never insult a person to his face, even if he is the most annoying critter alive--you wait until he's gone to talk trash behind his back.
23. Most girls have more body hair than you, if you are male.
24. You tap the table when someone pours tea for you.
25. You say "Aiya!" and "Wah!" frequently.
26. You only shop at chinese supermarkets.
27. You have oodles of money after Chinese New Year from red envelopes.
28. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can reuse the paper.
29. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50% off.
30. You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.
31. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table. (That's why you need the vinyl tablecloth).
32. You have stuff in the freezer since the beginning of time.
33. You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.
34. You have never used your dishwasher.
35. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.
36. You eat all meals in the kitchen.
37. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
38. You have a piano in your living room
39. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth).
40. You twirl your pen around your fingers when you are bored.
41. You hate to waste food.
42. You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.
43. You don't own any real Tupperware - only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
44. You also use the jam jars as drinking glasses.
45. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
46. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes). These snacks are always dried and include dried plums, mango, ginger, and squid.
47. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.
48. Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.
49. The dash board of your Honda is covered by hundreds of small toys.
50. You don't use measuring cups.
51. You beat eggs with chopsticks.
52. You have a teacup with a cover on it.
53. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling information costs 50 cents.
54. You only make long distance calls after 11pm.
55. If you are male, you clap at something funny and if you are female, you giggle whilst placing a hand over your mouth.
56. You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions.
57. You love Chinese Martial Arts films.
58. You can recite the various stances and attacks of martial arts.
59. Shaolin actually mean something to you.
60. You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
61. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached.
62. You never call your parents just to say hi.
63. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
64. When you're sick, your parents tell you not to eat fried foods or baked goods due to yeet hay.
65. You know what yeet hay is.
66. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only three desks apart.
67. You use a face cloth.
68. You starve yourself before going to All You Can Eat places.
69. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewellery and/or electronics.
70. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again.
71. You own a meat cleaver that you sharpen yourself.
72. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.
73. You know what moon cakes are.
74. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an family member who has moved out.
75. You go with your friends to the mall on a weekly basis, but you wait till the trip to Hong Kong/China to go on a real shopping spree, since you can get the hippest fashions at 20 times cheaper.
76. You iron your own shirts.
77. You play a musical instrument.
78. Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them.
79. You've eaten a red bean popsicle.
80. You bring oranges (or other produce) with you as a gift when you visit people's homes.
81. At a restuarant, you fight over who pays the dinner bill.
82. You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine or law.
83. You live with your parents and you are 30 years old (and they prefer it that way). Or if you're married and 30 years old, you live in the apartment next door to your parents, or at least in the same neighbourhood.
84. You don't tip more than 0% at a restaurant, and if you do, you tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
85. You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
86. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table.
87. You know why there are 88 reasons.
88. You see the truth in this and then send it

Enjoy! =)... Btw... shoutout if you're chinese too!.. i wanna see that I'm not the only chinese wise guy here

[LatinaLady]

there was one of these already

[Winter]

That says me all over.

[ThunderEvermore]

None of that really applied to me, except the poor vision thing.

[gelionie]

I've got #5, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 20, 25, 27, 31, 35, 38, 40, 41, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 56, 60, 64, 65 73, 77, 87, 88... not that much, but I'm living in Hong Kong already. Well maybe some of the facts are for Chinese people who are adults... while I'm only 13.

[swe3txprincesz]

hmmm like 5 or 6 things apply o me cuz ime filipino so uhhh yea

[bbyxstac3y]

well i'm chinese
and some ob th0se things up there i dun do
1. i dun like fishhh
and i onli read up to 15 xP got lazy aftawardss

[kirbymuixo]

About 90% of these actually apply to me...lol

awe man, you people know so much about us chinese. i feel special.

[Rice_on_my_shoe]

JrockDollie Posted on Jun 30 2004, 6:19 PM
  awe man, you people know so much about us chinese. i feel special.

haha me 2

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

wtf mystical made a thread about this already, get some new material

[Mireh]

47. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.

WHAT! ...At least 5!...2-3 is NOTHING.

[pm3k]

sry if I repeated an unoriginal post..

i checked it i found nothin.. but... anyways

what would u say if I don't wash my rice at all and I'm still living with no infections?

[laur3nw]

most of them apply to my relatives, but not me oh yeah..im chinese

[islandkiss]

only some of them do not apply to me.

[joanna0304]

i'm not chinese so they all don't apply to me.

[sheepy]

LOL yeahh most of them applie

[aznmunki]

that AINT chinise.. that's like... OLD PEOPLE CHINESE.... reeeaall old lyk..

[imadorkabledxd]

hhaha so true.