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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. (erm...)
[ ]You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50% off.
[ ]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. (we don't have toilet paper sales)
[ ]You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.
[ ]You eat all meals in the kitchen.
[x]You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers. (I use them to line the dustbin)
[x]You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
[x]You always leave your shoes at the door.
[x]You have a piano in your living room.
[x]You twirl your pen around your fingers. (you're just jealous you can't do the trick)
[ ]Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them.
[x]You don't own any real Tupperware -- only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars. (I have no use of tupperware...but not that much containers anyway)
[ ]You also use the jam jars as drinking glasses.
[x]You've eaten a red bean Popsicle.(What's wrong with that. They're nice okay!)
[x]You bring oranges (or other produce) with you as a gift when you visit people's homes.(only during CNY)
[x]You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel. (they're cute =)
[ ]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.
[ ]Ditto for paper napkins.
[x]You never order room service. (I can't stand eating in the hotel room)
[x]You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes). (I get hungry easily)
[x]These travel snacks are always dried. As in not just dried plums, dried ginger, and beef/pork jerky, but dried cuttlefish.
[x]Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests just brought just to be courteous. (I cannot describe enough how much food I've missed out due to their rejections)
[x]Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.
[x]You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine or law.(Engineering :D)
[x]When you go to a dance party, there are a wall of guys surrounding the dance floor trying to look cool.
[ ]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. (We live in different countries)
[x]You don't use measuring cups.
[ ]You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.
[x]You beat eggs with chopsticks.
[ ]Your parents' house is always cold.
[x]You have a teacup with a cover on it.
[ ]You reuse teabags.
[ ]Your mom drives her Mercedes to the Price Club.(My mum does not own a car)
[x]You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions.
[x]You have acquired a taste for bittermelon. (YAY BITTERMELON)
[x]You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
[x]You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached -- it means they're fresh. (I like to suck on the heads)
[x]You never call your parents just to say hi. (I want to, but they drag on the conversation)
[x]You always cook too much.
[x]If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten rice, even if it's midnight.
[x]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. (So right)
[ ]Your parents never go to the movies.
[x]You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl.
[ ]You don't eat the last piece of food on the table.
[ ]You starve yourself before going to all you can eat sushi.
[x]Your parents are never happy with your grades. (They never were, at any rate)
[x]You keep most of your money in a savings account.
[x]Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.
[x]You love Chinese Martial Arts films.
[ ]You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.
[x]Shao Lin and Wu Tang actually mean something to you. (They're nice)
[ ]You love to go to $1.75 movies.
[ ]You love to go to $1.50 movies even more.(HELLOOO. what world do you exist in. this kind of movies barely exist anymore.)
[x]You never order sweet-n-sour pork, egg foo young, or chop suey at a Chinese restaurant.
[ ]Someone in your family drives a Honda...
[ ]You have a Chinese knick-knack hanging from your rear-view mirror.
[x]You like to eat chicken feet.
[x]You suck on fish heads and fish fins.
[ ]You turn bright red after drinking two tablespoons of beer.
[ ]You look like you are eighteen.
[x]You have more than five remotes in your house.(I think i have twelve)
[ ]You leave the plastic on the lampshade for ten years or more.
[x]You can't bear to throw things away.
[ ]Your dad washes his hair four times a day, or never at all.
[ ]Your unassisted vision is worse than 20/500.
[x]You've worn glasses at least since the fifth grade.
[ ]You drive around looking for the cheapest gas.
[x]You add twice the amount of water recommended when making orange juice from concentrate.(diluted orange concentrate rocks!!)
[ ]You've never seen your parents hug.
[ ]Your grandmother lives with you and your family.
[x]You say "aiya!" and "wah!" frequently.
[ ]You have to read all your parents' mail written in English.
[x]You are constantly being set up with uninteresting (and usually ugly) people by your parents. (they tried to, but failed horribly)
[x]Your mother is strangely obsessed with plants. (I cannot describe enough how many plants my mum keeps)
[ ]White people look at you strangely if you tell them you are Buddhist.
[x]You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
[ ]You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.(I'm the only kid)
[x]Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
[ ] You have two middle initials instead of one.
[ ]You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
[x]Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
[ ]You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
[ ]You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives. (I just buy a new knife)
[x]You cut your own hair or had someone in your family do it. (used to)
[ ]Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth, especially in front.
[x]You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
[x]You know what the term "lemon" or a "banana" means.
[ ]You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
[ ]Your dad owns at least one bird.(what the... what have birds got to do with this...)