You know you're Chinese when...

Quite funny. Managed to tickle me during werk. Reminds me of my parents or someone I know. (Yea, even myself...) Really long, so I've picked a few of my favorites. Plagarized from www.blogthings.com.

You know you're Chinese when...

You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those bows) next year.

When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has moved out.

You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.

Your stove is covered with aluminum foil.

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 always leave your shoes at the door.

You have a piano in your living room.

You twirl your pen around your fingers.

Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. (Now that's my parents...!)

You don't own any real Tupperware -- only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars. (Oh, we do own tupperware... but we have more of the plastic containers...haha)

You've eaten a red bean Popsicle.

You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.

Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.

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 neighborhood.

You reuse teabags.

You never call your parents just to say hi.

If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've 'eaten rice', even if it's midnight.

Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you get sick. They also tell you not to eat fried foods or baked goods because they produce hot air.

You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table.

You starve yourself before going to all you can eat sushi.

You never discuss your love life with your parents.

Your parents are never happy with your grades.

You keep most of your money in a savings account.

Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.

You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.

You hate to spend more than $5 for lunch.

You have more than five remotes in your house.(Hmm...I have 3 I think, or 4...)

You can't bear to throw things away.

Your unassisted vision is worse than 20/500.

You've worn glasses at least since the fifth grade.

You add twice the amount of water recommended when making orange juice from concentrate.

You've never seen your parents hug.

You always have water when dining out.

You say "aiya!" and "wah!" frequently.

You are constantly being set up with uninteresting (and usually ugly) people by your parents.

Your mother is strangely obsessed with plants.

You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.

You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.

Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.

Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.

You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.

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 wash and reuse ziplock bags.

Your dad owns at least one bird.




I wonder who comes up with all this? Stalkers? Market analysts? Philosophers? Foreigner-in-laws?