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CHECK TO SEE HOW CHINESE YOU ARE
1.
You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can
save and reuse
the wrapping (and
especially those bows) next year.
2. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when
they are 50% off.
3. 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.
4. You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.
5. Your stove is covered with aluminum foil.
6. Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
7. You have stuff in the freezer since the beginning of
time.
8. You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.
9. You have never used your dishwasher.
10. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all
times.
11. You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
12. You eat all meals in the kitchen.
13. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
14. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
15. You always leave your shoes at the door.
16. You have a piano in your living room.
17. Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
18. You iron your own shirts.
19. You play a musical instrument.
20. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you
cover your mouth).
21. You twirl your pen around your fingers.
22. Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're
going to throw away
the leftovers on the
table, you'll finish them.
23. You don't own any real Tupperware -- only a cupboard
full of used but
carefully rinsed
margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
24. You also use the jam jars as drinking glasses.
25. You've eaten a red bean Popsicle.
26. You bring oranges (or other produce) with you as a
gift when you visit
people's homes.
27. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles
that you take
every time you stay
in a hotel.
28. The condiments in your fridge are either Price Club
sized or come in
plastic packets,
which you save/steal every time you get take out or go
to McDonald's.
29. Ditto paper napkins.
30. You never order room service.
31. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you
travel (and travel
means any car ride
longer than 15 minutes). These travel snacks are
always dried. As in
not just dried plums, dried ginger, and beef/pork jerky,
but dried cuttlefish
(SQUID).
32. You own a rice cooker.
33. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking
it.
34. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (That's
why you
need the vinyl
tablecloth).
35. Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin
oranges that
their guests just
brought just to be courteous.
36. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
37. Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.
38. You majored in something practical like engineering,
medicine or law.
39. When you go to a dance party, there are a wall of
guys surrounding
the dance floor
trying to look cool.
40. 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.
41. You don't use measuring cups.
42. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't
pay tax.
43. You beat eggs with chopsticks.
44. Your parents' house is always cold.
45. You have a teacup with a cover on it.
46. You reuse teabags.
47. You have a drawer full of old pens, most of which
don't write anymore.
48. If you're under age 20, you own a really expensive
walkman if you're
over 20, you own a
really expensive camera.
49. Your mom drives her Mercedes to the Price Club.
50. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book,
since calling
Information costs 50
cents.
51. You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
52. You're a wok user.
53. You only make long distance calls after 11pm.
54. You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese
restaurants.
55. You like Chinese films in their original undubbed
versions.
56. You have acquired a taste for bittermelon.
57. You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
58. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached
-- it
means they're fresh.
59. You never call your parents just to say hi.
60. You always cook too much.
61. If you don't live at home, when your parents call,
they ask if you've
eaten rice, even if
it's midnight.
62. Also, if you don't live at home, your parents always
want you to come
home.
63. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside
when you get sick.
64. When you're sick, they also tell you not to eat fried
foods or baked
goods because they
produce hot air (yeet hay in Cantonese).
65. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though
you only sit 10
feet apart.
66. Your parents never go to the movies.
67. Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
68. You use a face cloth.
69. Your parents use a clothes line.
70. You're always late.
71. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but
don't eat the last
piece of food on the
table.
72. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat
sushi.
73. You've joined a CD club at least once.
74. You know someone who can get you a good deal on
jewelry or
electronics.
75. You never discuss your love life with your parents.
76. Your parents are never happy with your grades.
77. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though
you're never going
to use them again.
78. You keep used batteries.
79. You own your own
meat cleaver and sharpen it.
80. You keep most of your money in a savings account.
81. You know what MJ means.
82. You've been on the Love Boat or know someone who has.
83. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.
84. You love Chinese Martial Arts films.
85. You have
Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one
leftover chicken
wing.
86. Shao Lin and Wu
Tang actually mean something to you.
87. You love to go
to $1.75 movies.
88. You love to go
to $1.50 movies even more.
89. You never order
sweet-n-sour pork, egg foo young, or chop suey at a
Chinese restaurant.
90. You have a pager
even though you don't really need one.
91. You have a
really nice pager with an alphanumeric display.
92. You have a cell
phone even though you don't really need one.
93. You hate to
spend more than $5 for lunch.
94. Someone in your
family drives a Honda.
95. There are custom
rims on the Honda.
96. You have a
Chinese knick-knack hanging from your rear-view mirror.
97. You like
to eat chicken feet.
98. You suck on fish
heads and fish fins.
99. You turn bright
red after drinking two tablespoons of beer.
100. You can get a
buzz on Coors O'Douls or Miller Sharps.
101. You look like
you are eighteen.
102. You always look
up at white women if you are male.
103. You always look
up at Chinese men if you are female.
104. You own a gun
if you are male.
105. You only buy
used cars.
106. You have more
than five remotes in your house.
107. You like to
sing Karaoke.
108. You have a
custom stereo in the Honda with the custom rims.
109. Your entire
house is covered with tile.
110. You have those
plastic walkways covering your hallway and other
heavy foot traffic
areas.
111. You have
plastic or some other kind of cover on your furniture.
112. You leave the
plastic on the lampshade for ten years or more.
113. You eat family
dinners with the TV on.
114. You watched
Connie Chung.
115. You have a
frightening amount of clutter in your house.
116. You can't bear
to throw things away.
117. Your dad washes
his hair four times a day, or never at all.
118. You really hate
getting B's on your report card.
119. Your house
smells like preserved fish.
120. Or your house
smells like Chinese medicine.
121. You have 12-20
uncles and aunts.
122. You've never
kissed your mom or dad.
123. You've never
hugged them either, unless at family parties.
124. Your unassisted
vision is worse than 20/500.
125. You wear
contacts to avoid wearing those "coke-bottle"
glasses.
126. You've worn
glasses at least since the fifth grade.
127. You go to
yard sales often.
128. You've had a
bowl cut before.
129. If you lose a
dollar, you dwell on it for more than five minutes.
130. Your parents
(or some other close relative) own a grocery store or
restaurant.
131. You love to
"buck" the system.
132. If you're
overcharged you scream bloody murder, but if you're
undercharged you go
your merry way.
133. Your hair
sticks up when you wake up.
134. You get a rush
from making a good deal.
135. You make
ridiculous offers when bargaining (I'll give you $5 for
that
Integra).
136. You'll haggle
something that is non-negotiable.
137. You love to use
coupons.
138. You drive
around looking for the cheapest gas.
139. You add twice
the amount of water recommended when making orange juice
from concentrate.
140. You'll drive
around for hours looking for the best parking spot.
141. You take
showers at night.
142. You'll learn
about sex from someone other than your parents.
143. You'll be
convinced your parents only had intercourse as many times
required to produce
you and your siblings.
144. You've never
seen your parents kiss.
145. You've never
seen your parents hug.
146. Your
grandmother lives with you and your family.
147. The Honda has
been lowered.
148. You never buy
stuff from the concession stand at movies.
149. You tip less
than 15%.
150. You never order
desserts at restaurants.
151. You always have
water when dining out.
152. You refuse to
use the valet.
153. You try not to
use the bellhop for fear of tipping.
154. You avoid the
non-free snacks in hotel rooms.
155. You don't mind
squeezing 20+ people into one motel room.
156. You want your
dollar back from the friend that borrowed it right
away.
157. You get the
runs when you drink too much milk.
158. Most girls have
more body hair than you if you're male.
159. You have an
unexplainable love for cameras.
160. Sanrio means a
lot to you.
161. Your
refrigerator stinks.
162. Your parents
don't want you to move out when you turn 18.
163. Your parents
want to live with you when they are old.
164. You tap the
table when someone pours tea for you (not applicable
for jook sing).
165. You point to
your nose when referring to yourself.
166. You say
"aiya!" and "wah!" frequently.
167. You lie about
your kids ages to get a discount.
168. You lie about
your age to get a senior citizen discount.
169. You don't want
to wear your seatbelt because it's uncomfortable.
170. You love Las
Vegas, slot machines, and blackjack.
171. You love to
play mah jong.
172. You want to
marry Chinese, or at the very least white.
173. You have to
read all your parents' mail written in English.
174. You have to
make phone calls for your parents to English speakers.
175. Your parents
ask you if you are home when you come home (faan nei
lah").
176. You are
constantly being set up with uninteresting (and usually
ugly)
people by your
parents.
177. You always hear
how great so-and-so's son or daughter is doing.
Then your parents
ask you why you are such shit and why you are always
embarrassing the
family.
178. Your parents
wish you gave them 30% of your income.
179. Your childhood
is filled with painful memories of the ong feather
duster (guy mo so).
180. You can use
words like "chink" and "chinaman"
with impunity.
181. Your clothes
smell like fried rice.
182. You talk at the
top of your voice a lot.
183. You hate eating
cheese.
184. You go to a lot
of Chinese wedding banquets.
185. At these
banquets, for some unexplainable reason all the older
Chinese people will
start hitting their water glasses with chopsticks until
the newlyweds kiss.
186. All the older
Chinese people will have to be addressed with some title
like "great
grand aunt" or something. Then when you address them
and
bungle up your
inferior "ABC" Chinese, your mom fakes laughter
and makes
some comment about
American Born Chinese.
187. Your mother
worries constantly that other Chinese will consider her a
bad mother if her
children re "bad."
188. You have a big
aquarium filled with colorful fish somewhere in your
house.
189. Your mother is
strangely obsessed with plants.
190. Your mother
answers the phone, its one of your friends, she asks
them personal
questions.
191. Your mother
likes to try to smooth/tuck in your clothes in a public
place.
192. If you are a
guy, you either have brown/blonde bangs with black hair
parted down the
middle, or if you're middle-aged (like most fathers) you
have a
"comb-over."
193. White people
look at you strangely if you tell them you are Buddhist.
194. Even though you
have a lot of white friends, you harbor a deep
resentment towards
them.
195. #194 except to
include people of all races.
196. You either hate
black people or think and speak like you were black.
197. You believe
that "length doesn't matter."
198. yOu tYpE LiKe
dIs tO LoOk kEwL.
199. If you are a
girl, you don't mind hanging out with ~10 guys by
yourself.
200. You take this
message and forward it to all your Chinese friends.
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