- order natural shakes (ie. sinh tho sau rieng)
- foil around your stove
- nuoc mum in your kitchen
- Mom puts garlic on everything
- buy Tiger Balm
- when you get sick they scratch a coin on your back with tiger blam or other oil
- your parents buy Paris By Night Videos or Asia Entertainment Videos
- your family goes to Little Saigon Garden Mall in Santa Ana, California
- shop at Bangluck
- eat at Pho So 1 or 54 or 999
- relatives buy you gifts from Vietnam
- you know what banh canh is
- you know what "Du ma" means
- someone in the family who worked in a nail shop
- someone in the family who owned a Vietnamese restaurant
- you use a credit card/debit card for everything then at the end of the month you pay the bill in full.