What makes Chinese-CHINESE?

1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so
you can save and reuse the wrapping
(and especially those
ribbons).

2. 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.

3. You keep a Thermos of hot water
available at all times.

4. You save grocery bags, tin foil,
and tin containers. You use the grocery bags to hold
garbage.

5. You hate to waste food:
(a) Even if you're totally full,
if someone says they're going to throw away the
leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. (Your mom
will give a lecture about starving kids in Africa ).
(b) You have Tupperware in your fridge
with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.

6. You don't own any real
Tupperware- only a cupboard full of used but
carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take
out containers, and jam jars.

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

8. You wipe your plate and utensils or
wash them in a small basin of hot
water before you eat every time you go
to a restaurant.

9 . You own a rice cooker and a slow
cooker

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

11. You fight (literally) over who
pays the dinner bill.

12. You have a teacup with a cover on
it.

13. If you're under age 20, you
own a really expensive walkman if you're
over 20, you own a really expensive
camera.

14. You're a wok user.

15. You only make long distance calls
after 7pm.

16. You prefer your shrimp with the
heads and legs still attached-it,
means they're fresh.

17. You never call your parents just
to say, ' Hi. '

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

19. Your parents tell you to boil
herbs and stay indoors when you get
sick. They also tell you not to eat
fried foods or baked foods because
such food are ' heaty' (yeet
hey in Cantonese).

20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at
work, even though you only sit 10 feet apart.

21. You always cook too much.

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

23. You starve yourself before going
to ' All You Can Eat ' buffet.

24. You know someone who can get you a
good deal on jewelry or
electronics, computers.

25 . You own your own meat cleaver and
sharpen it.

26. Your toothpaste tubes are all
squeezed paper-thin.

27. You call a sausage a hotdog.

28. You wrap with napkins all the
knives, spoons and forks of the airline that you fly on and
put in your travel-bag as souvenirs

29. You never forget to take with you
all the unused bath and facial tissues when you check out
from the hotel because you believe that you have paid its
all.


Now that you have read the lot,
are they mostly true? Will you take this
message and forward it to all your
Chinese friends, because you will
always be proud that you're indeed
a great Chinese...

or.... are you already Europeanized. (If there is such a word )