1. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse wrapping (and specially 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 foils 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 play a musical instrument.
19. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth.
20. You use the jam jars as drinking glasses.
21. You've eaten a red bean popsicle.
22. You bring oranges (or other produce) with you as a gift when you visit people's homes.
23. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you have taken each time you stayed in a hotel.
24. The steal McDonald's paper napkins, straws, plastic
forks....
25. You never order room service.
26. 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 dries as in not just dried plums, dried ginger, and beef/pork jerky, but dried cuttlefish (Squid).
27. You own a rice cooker.
28. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.
29. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table.
30. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
31. You dad thinks he can fix everything himself.
32. You majored in something practical like engineering, computers, medicine or law.
33. You don't use measuring cups.
34. You beat eggs with chopsticks.
35. Your parents' house is always cold.
36. You have a tea cup with a cover on it.
37. You reuse teabags.
38. You always look phone numbers up in the White Page since calling information costs 55 cents.
39. You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
40. You're a wok user.
41. You only make long distance calls after 11:00 p.m.
42. You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurants.
43. You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions...
a. You love Chinese martial arts film.
b. Shao Lin and Wu-Tang actually means something to you.
44. You have acquired a taste for bittermelon.
45. You like congee with duck eggs in it.
46. You never call your parents just to say "hi."
47. If you don't live at home, when your parents call you, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
48. You parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you get sick.
49. When you're sick, they also tell you not to eat fried foods or baked goods because they reduce sore throat (a/k/a YEET HAY in Cantonese). ahahhahahahhaaa.....
50. You're always late.
51. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table.
52. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat restaurant.
53. You know someone who can get a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
54. You NEVER discuss your love life with your parents.
55. Your parents are never happy with your grades.
56. You save your old Coke bottles even though you're never going to use them again.
57. You keep used batteries.
58. You own a meat cleaver and sharpens it.
59. You keep most of your money in a savings account.
60. You know what MJ means.
61. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.
62. You take this message and forward it to all your friends.
