[88 Ways to Know You're an ABC or CBC]

[rosiean86]

I thought this was hilarious! :laughing: Uh..everybody knows what an ABC/CBCi s right?

American Born Chinese



88 WAYS TO KNOW YOU ARE A CHINESE

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

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 and throat projectiles.

18. You iron your own shirts.

19. You drive a Honda or Acura and are less than 5'8"tall.

20. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth).

21. You twirl your pen around your fingers.

22. 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.

23. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out 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 wipe your plate and utensils before you eat every time you go to a restaurant.

31. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes)...These travelsnacks 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 (literally) 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 guyssurrounding 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. Yo


u beat eggs with chopsticks.

44. You re-gift cookies or Christmas cake at Christmas (some could even be more than 5yrs old).

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. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since

calling Information costs 50 cents.

50. You don't tip more than 10% at a restaurant, and if you do, you tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.

51. You're a wok user.

52. You only make long distance calls after 11pm.

53. You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese

restaurants.

54. You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions

a. You love Chinese Martial Arts films.

b. Shao Lin and Wu Tang actually mean something to you.

55. You have acquired a taste for bittermelon.

56. You like congee with thousand year old eggs.

57. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached-it

means they're fresh.

58. You never call your parents just to say hi.

59. You always cook too much.

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

61. Also, if you don't live at home, your parents always want you to come home.

62. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside whenyou get sick.

63. 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).

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

65. Your parents never go to the movies.

66. Your parents send money to their relatives in China.

67. You use a face cloth.

68. Your parents use a clothes line.

69. You're always late.

70. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't

eat the last piece of food on the table.

71. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet.

72. You've joined a CD club at least once.

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

74. You never discuss your love life with your parents.

75. Your parents are never happy with your grades!!

76. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again.

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

78. You keep most of your money in a savings account.

79. You own an MJ set and possibly have a room set up in the basement.

80. You know what MJ means. [no, it's not Michael Jackson: It's Mahjong!] - hoos that??

81. You've been on the Love Boat or know someone who has.

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

83. You say "whie" when answering your cell phone.

84. You are familiar with the term "aiee yah...".

85. You know what moon cakes are.

86. You know why this list consists of only "88" reasons.

87. You enclose your remote controls in plastic to keep fingerprints off them.

88. You take this message and forward it to all your Chinese friends

I think that I can identify with 95% of that...what about you guys?

*edit*

Sorry, apparently I excluded the Canadians...I assume that this list applies to the CBC's also then?

[Viv]

haha i've read this before! ABC=american born chinese but theres also CBC=canadian born chinese! remember!~ were an american & canadian thread! lolz

i could used to relate to some of those...im sure TONS of people still do :)

[chichirui]

Hahaha! Yeah, I can identify to like.... 98% of it... OO;; haha is that bad? There are a few things that we used to do but don't do anymore...Psh. Asian pride!

[JianDan[Ai]]

everything, except this
72. You've joined a CD club at least once.
and this
77. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.

but yea...so that it is 97.7272727272727272% correct

and only a chinese boy would find that out :D

[lattae]

hmmm... this is an interesting read... but I was wondering about a few points...

14. You use grocery bags to hold garbage
75. Your parents are never happy with your grades!!
71. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet.
87. You enclose your remote controls in plastic to keep fingerprints off them.

aint these logical??? :? else what would a non-ABC/CBC do??....

[Seltsi]

errr, I'm not Chinese, but I am American born! lol I'm not an ABC but being asian, many of these still apply to me, and I'm hmong! Hahah =P

[Maven]

lol this is too funny. especially the part where about fowarding this to all your chinese friends :wink2:

[michelle_chou]

lol this is so funny! most of them apply to me. but i dont get why there's only 88 reasons???

[azNgel]

ah that, that's stereotype lol =P but it's still so true!

errr, I'm not Chinese, but I am American born! lol I'm not an ABC but being asian, many of these still apply to me, and I'm hmong! Hahah =P

what's hmong?

[pali731]

haha that list basically describes my family...ABCs for life

[tontamoo]

I'm always amused by how many of these items I can relate to.

michelle_chou: Are you joking? You know that all Chinese people love the number 8. It sounds similar to fa which means good fortune/getting rich. See what I mean? (http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_810728.html?menu=)

[yiwen]

hahahaha...most of them apply to me! Hahah..especially the one about being late. but my table doesn't have a vinyl cloth though. :D

[zhy378]

omg, most of them r so true, i got like 30 true to me, though i be there's more if i more older like the part with living somewhere eslse and the parents stuff. though still . very interesting.

[LiLxAmMiE]

lol! one of my friends e-mailed me a 100 facts of how you know you're chinese a long time ago.. :happy: i always thought those were hilarious because it's always true!

[Shari Fantasy]

Oh... I'm a CBC, but I only got 14 of them right? How's that? I think it's WEIRD. Creepy how so much of these things apply to you guys... *shudders and run away from forum screaming* Lolz~

[vunsin]

Most of the things could also be applied to Chinese anywhere in the world. In fact, a few similar lists have already been posted in the Laughters/Jokes thread. I'm just surprised to know that there are more similarities between foreign-born Chinese and Asian Chinese than I'd initially thought. :happy:

[crusty-applepie]

im not chinese at all but i can still relate to most of the things on the list. i guess those traits are common not just to chinese but most asians.

haha...the list sounded, very much, like what my aunt who lives in the states would do. heheheh.

[esotericdragon]

lol..we are so azn..my parents i guess are old fashioned..we save a lot of stuff..but i'm like that too cuz i feel bad if i waste stuff...but hey, that's why we're so cool! =) i love being azn..it makes me unique..though our sch has a whole bunch of azns...but i still seperate myself in one way or another...
but i would consider myself americanized...
though.....a lot of my azn friends are really americanized..they don't liek chinese music or movies or anythign..and they've never been to toronto!!!!!!!! which is amazing to me cuz we go so many times every yr..i love toronto.it's the closest thing to china to us..lol..
it annoys me sometiims cuz they're not open to something new...u always gotta start somewhere

[azndreamer88]

haha this is pretty funny but some of the stuff on the list is weird..>.< anywayz esotericdragon i luv bein azn too, makes me feel special cuz im like 1 out of the 10 azn's in my entire school =P ive never been to toronto....O_o.....the closest thing to an azn place for me is flushing :oops:

[esotericdragon]

oh realy? u should go to toronto..it's so awesome..ther's nuthing like tat in troy..like,there's korean stores and what not but nuthing chinese..like, entertainment...
is flushing the name of a city? :laughing:

[Das Le Epi]

whoa, that is creepy. Had no idea some of those traits were asian though...

[azndreamer88]

where i live they got like nottin azn but some azn restaurants, and then flushing hehe its the best^_^ anywayz yeah flushing is kinda like the name of a city....i wish i can go to toronto but i dun think thas ever gonna happen =P

[Pooky]

woo~ i got this list before, I'm CBC< and I can totally realte to like 97% of the list...it's quite freaky, but it's also sooo true about me~ :oops: :glug:

[madison]

OMG! LOL. I can totally relate to this. Oh yeah i am going to forward this to my chinese friends. Lol. This is too funny. :laughing: This is kinda humiliating. Oh well~ Not something im proud of doing like :blush: :
1. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those bows) next year.
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.

Yeah these all relate to me. :blush:

[bee]

my god...i am chinese,and there was only like 10 on the list the DIDNT apply to me and my family!!!! i have to send that to all my chinese friends.

pick ur teeth at the dinner table but cover ur mouth? thats what my mom does all the time!!! :laughing: roflmao
this makes me feel like an idiot tho... :wink2:

[l3abystarz704]

errr, I'm not Chinese, but I am American born! lol I'm not an ABC but being asian, many of these still apply to me, and I'm hmong! Hahah =P

what's hmong?

HEY! I'm hmong too wow i didn't think there would be someone else that's hmong on this board n you're in silence alliance toO! oh yeah! hahah hm..long story as to what hmong is but i can tell you we're asian but we don't have a country so I can't say we're from some place but the majority of the hmong people come from laos n thailand. ^^

[klearskies]

These definitely apply to me...like 80 of them...
OMG ...i'm so asian ...
my school is so discriminating too...everybody goes around by calling u asian...
But i think it suppose to be a compliment though...
Anyways, are there anyways u could tell if you are american/canadian versus french or German?(besides speaking a different language of course)

[bethie_me]

My mom matches pratically all of the points except for some of them like the Mahjong one. She doesn't play MJ. I match most of those too but my Mom and I have changed quite a bit when we moved to Canada. It's funny how asians like to keep everything and not throw things out. My dad really like to do that.

[Lain Lang]

i'm feeling so chinese right now...
this list is totally true..
chinese forever no matter where you live

ps: in my case it would be Brazilian Born Chinese

[Aurora_Borealis]

:laughing: Most of the list is true for me... Especially:
"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)" Haha, every night we eat rice, I always hear that for sure; but it's from my dad instead.
And number 75 is definitely correct, they are NEVER satisfied with my marks... My family is for sure Chinese (even the tablecloth thing matches O_o)

[esotericdragon]

lol...same here...my rents used to rag on me if i don't finsih my food but not anymore..i feel bad anyways that i don't finish the food so i do =]

[kamui]

lmao... i can def relate to most of these..
this one was hilarous: 71. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet.

DEFINITELY my family!

[qrrbrbirlbel]

i can definately relate to most of the stuff, and sadly, i'm not chinese...

[Phil]

omg... this is sooo true... except "you are 5'8" or shorter" I'm 6'.... but ya... a LOT of the things on there are so real...

[JiE_LuN'z_BabE]

LOLOLOL. I can sooo relate to this but not as much as in the #60-75 questions. LOL Man. Who made this? It's so funny huh.

[tearxstain]

oh gosh. very true..sadly =P some of the stuff on the list has to be updated - like that walkman thing =P i think everyone's carrying ipods/mini ipods nowadays =P haha.."majoring in engineering,medicine or law" ..so very true -_- thanks for the laugh =)

[eiko]

lol this is sooo funny and very very true!!! i feel very very chinesey right now lol, soo funny but im not american born chinese, im full chinese, i moved to the us like 8 yrs ago

[nycgirls]

lol this is sooo funny and very very true!!! i feel very very chinesey right now lol, soo funny but im not american born chinese, im full chinese, i moved to the us like 8 yrs ago

Hey Eiko I moved to US 7 yrs ago as well... and I found the post funny as well...hehehh~~

But I moved when I was 13 yrs old... so you do the math.. :bleh:

[nm amazon]

haha, its so true! i personally dont agree w/ 87 but my parents always force me to do it. When i ripped it off on purpose, i just told them it was an accident, somehow, they never believe me.

lol, i moved to us like when i was 10, im 16 now. Haha, im growing!!

[seaweedpatchkid]

The sad this is that most of those apply to me. I also know why there are only 88 reasons as opposed to 24 or 44 reasons. :D I also know that white flowers should be not be sent to hospitals, only bright red ones or pink ones or blue ones. No white. White is for funerals.



I think most of my friends are like that though. XD

[Hika-kun]

Lol. So so true.. it's kinda creepy. My mom found this in a chinese magazine.. and read it to me. And we were laughing at it soo much. Haha. The leftover thing applies to my granny.. she saves everything. And yes.. we Do have a linen tablecloth. Haha.. XP But, my walkman is cheap. *sniff* Love the reminder. Thankx!

[canuck_girl39]

i hate to admit it but most of it is true! sad, cuz it makes us sound so...cheap. =( lol.

has anyone seen russell peters? =D

[KendoTiger]

Hilarious guy XD
Specially the one on going to the chinese discount store at the mall!

Omg, I had to send this to my family. lol, im such an abc... wtf, i have a score of 84/88???? =.=;;

[liliceprincess]

man all these are so true to me..that is so wierd but i am chinese so i guess i do...most of it pertain to me...so cool

[jay_ella4ever]

FYI ABC isn't really American Born Chinese, it means abroad born chinese. because you can be an ABC in any other country, not including china.
besides only 12 of them apply to me. #'s 14,32,33,36,38,43,48,56,72,75, and84

[eimiie]

Haha, I can identify with so many of those, like probably 99%. It's quite amazing that these fit so well. And they're funny too! I think the one thing that didn't fit me was the walkman thing and the coming in late thing. I thought Chinese people liked to go to things like 2 hours ahead of time. That's how we are sometimes.

[kmwong26]

ya this is really true, i read it before and it's hilarious!!! ABCs rule man! there are just a few that are not true about 95% is true! hehe...

[AnzuMazaki]

This list totally creeped me out....O.o so many of it applied to me! I wasn't born in the U.S but a lot of people think I am for some reason...^^;;

[~ChinGLiSh<33]

haha i've read this before. more than half the list is true for me.
did you guys kno that ABC can also mean "already been chewed"? haha i find that funny.

[snowflake]

I feel that the 88 reasons are actually sort of the thing we Asian do. In fact, I (and my family) did most of the things listed. I guess it was just more obvious among the Europeans if one do that.

[blade28]

Great post! So many of those describe me (as an ABC). :)

[kingthev]

Hey I'm just a regular italian american but like 90% apply to me. Plus i wish i had a meat cleaver.

[mrazfan4ever]

LOL! I can totally relate to almost all of them...hahah, a good 80% I must say. Wow.

I can't believe it...does our parents really do this?? hm...hahah Thanks for posting it!

[mercurialvapor24]

wow...that is so accurate its scary!! lol. but what are the 88 reasons?

[deificsouL]

lol this isnt a way to tell if your cbc or abc it's just a way to tell if your chinese -.-'' but new generations. my friends and i don't do that stuff

[Underthesavior]

I've read this before, but before I read these types of lists, I had no idea that no one else did or had some of those things, because I have Chinese friends, and we all went to their houses, and they would do the same things, so I didn't think that there was anything peculiar about them ^.^

[xanimeotakux]

LMAO, most of this is true, and my parents do most of it XD *sigh* chinese people have all these similarities! we're all cheap, one way or another :P

[xLiFEerasedx]

hmmm... this is an interesting read... but I was wondering about a few points...
14. You use grocery bags to hold garbage
75. Your parents are never happy with your grades!!
71. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet.
87. You enclose your remote controls in plastic to keep fingerprints off them.
aint these logical??? :? else what would a non-ABC/CBC do??....
Haha, I've seen this list before.. we do most of those things, but when I read some of them, I'm like.. what?! I don't think anyone does that anymore! :glug: xD

Well I know some people don't use anything to hold their garbage.. they just throw it in the trash can x___x;

[xanimeotakux]

Haha, I've seen this list before.. we do most of those things, but when I read some of them, I'm like.. what?! I don't think anyone does that anymore! :glug: xD
Well I know some people don't use anything to hold their garbage.. they just throw it in the trash can x___x;

....no garbage bags? O_O not even grocery bags? won't that get the trash can all sticky..? >.> and it'll just have a higher advantage for the ants. :whistle:

[xLiFEerasedx]

....no garbage bags? O_O not even grocery bags? won't that get the trash can all sticky..? >.> and it'll just have a higher advantage for the ants. :whistle:
Yeah I know.. disgusting, right?! :oops: But I dunno, some people are just weird like that.. either that, or they haven't thought of using bags.. xD :glug:

[xanimeotakux]

Yeah I know.. disgusting, right?! :oops: But I dunno, some people are just weird like that.. either that, or they haven't thought of using bags.. xD :glug:

lol, at least us 'abcs/cbcs' use bags! =D tell your friends to use bags, or else their kitchen will smell as worse as the trash can. :wacko:

[xLiFEerasedx]

lol, at least us 'abcs/cbcs' use bags! =D tell your friends to use bags, or else their kitchen will smell as worse as the trash can. :wacko:
:roll: I know.. hahaha. Plus it'll be hard to clean out the trash can too.. I mean, who wants to scrub a trash can that's sticky & smelly?! Ewww.. :bleh:

[c_c_]

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oh my God ... lemme see ...

American Born Chinese



88 WAYS TO KNOW YOU ARE A CHINESE

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

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.

6. Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.

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.

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 and throat projectiles.

18. You iron your own shirts.

19. You drive a Honda or Acura and are less than 5'8"tall.

21. You twirl your pen around your fingers.

22. 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.

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

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.

31. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes)...These travelsnacks 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.

35. Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests just brought just to be courteous.

36. You fight (literally) 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 guyssurrounding the dance floor trying to look cool.

42. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.

43. Yo


u beat eggs with chopsticks.

44. You re-gift cookies or Christmas cake at Christmas (some could even be more than 5yrs old).

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

47. You have a drawer full of old pens, most of which don't write anymore.

49. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since

calling Information costs 50 cents.

50. You don't tip more than 10% at a restaurant, and if you do, you tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.

51. You're a wok user.

52. You only make long distance calls after 11pm.

54. You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions

a. You love Chinese Martial Arts films.

b. Shao Lin and Wu Tang actually mean something to you.

57. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached-it

means they're fresh.

58. You never call your parents just to say hi.

59. You always cook too much.

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

62. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside whenyou get sick.

65. Your parents never go to the movies.

66. Your parents send money to their relatives in China.

67. You use a face cloth.

68. Your parents use a clothes line.

69. You're always late.

70. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't

eat the last piece of food on the table.

71. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet.

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

74. You never discuss your love life with your parents.

75. Your parents are never happy with your grades!!

76. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again.

78. You keep most of your money in a savings account.

79. You own an MJ set and possibly have a room set up in the basement.

80. You know what MJ means. [no, it's not Michael Jackson: It's Mahjong!] - hoos

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

83. You say "whie" when answering your cell phone.

84. You are familiar with the term "aiee yah...".

85. You know what moon cakes are.

86. You know why this list consists of only "88" reasons.

88. You take this message and forward it to all your Chinese friends

wowwww ... true that ... ahaha ... -falls on the floor and can't stop laughing-
seriously though, you missed one thing: you don't own an iPod but own an mp3 player from china or korea XD

[xLiFEerasedx]

seriously though, you missed one thing: you don't own an iPod but own an mp3 player from china or korea XD
:oops:

Erm actually..

My daddy gave me an iPod for my birthday last year. :D But that's just because my other mp3 players kept breaking. xDD

[moosespitz]

ahaha, that was hilarious. :D
most apply to me.

[petricia]

When I first saw CBC in the thread title, I thought China born Chinese. hahaha...

Anyway, that applies to all Chinese right???

[pepprmint]

1. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those bows) next year.
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. ATTIC!!!
6. Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
9. You have never used your dishwasher.
10. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.
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.
17. Your parents know how to launch nasal and throat projectiles.
18. You iron your own shirts.
21. You twirl your pen around your fingers.
22. You hate to waste food
b. You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.
23. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out containers, and jam jars.
25. You've eaten a red bean Popsicle.
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.
31. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes)...These travelsnacks 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.
36. You fight (literally) over who pays the dinner bill.
37. Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.
39. When you go to a dance party, there are a wall of guyssurrounding the dance floor trying to look cool.
42. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.
43. You beat eggs with chopsticks.
47. You have a drawer full of old pens, most of which don't write anymore.
50. You don't tip more than 10% at a restaurant, and if you do, you tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
51. You're a wok user.
52. You only make long distance calls after 11pm.
58. You never call your parents just to say hi.
59. You always cook too much.
60. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
65. Your parents never go to the movies.
66. Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
67. You use a face cloth.
68. Your parents use a clothes line.
70. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't
eat the last piece of food on the table.
71. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet.
73. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics, computers.
74. You never discuss your love life with your parents.
75. Your parents are never happy with your grades!!
76. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again.
82. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.
83. You say "whie" when answering your cell phone.
84. You are familiar with the term "aiee yah...". aiyaaa!!
85. You know what moon cakes are.
86. You know why this list consists of only "88" reasons.
88. You take this message and forward it to all your Chinese friends
wowwww ... true that ... ahaha ... -falls on the floor and can't stop laughing-
seriously though, you missed one thing: you don't own an iPod but own an mp3 player from china or korea XD my iriver's from koreaa!!!!


hahaaaa im amazed at how many of these things i actually relate to!!!
^ and yea, i had to think twice before i figured out what cbc meant too hahaa
i think that does apply to all chinese...ive never gone to china i wouldnt know, but my relatives living there do call my home after 11am, which is after 11pm for them !! hahaa, and they always ask whether we've eaten yet :D

[gifted1]

The ones I bold are the ones that I identify myself as CBC/ABC.


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

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 and throat projectiles.

18. You iron your own shirts.

19. You drive a Honda or Acura and are less than 5'8"tall. What the hell is this? I'm 5'9 1/2

20. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth).

21. You twirl your pen around your fingers.

22. 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.

23. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out 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 wipe your plate and utensils before you eat every time you go to a restaurant.

31. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes)...These travelsnacks 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 (literally) 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. You re-gift cookies or Christmas cake at Christmas (some could even be more than 5yrs old).

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

IPOD VIDEO. If you're over 20, you own a really expensive camera.

49. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling Information costs 50 cents.

50. You don't tip more than 10% at a restaurant, and if you do, you tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more. I tip 15% +

51. You're a wok user.

52. You only make long distance calls after 11pm.

53. You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurants.

54. You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions

a. You love Chinese Martial Arts films.

b. Shao Lin and Wu Tang actually mean something to you.

55. You have acquired a taste for bittermelon.

56. You like congee with thousand year old eggs.

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

58. You never call your parents just to say hi.

59. You always cook too much.

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

61. Also, if you don't live at home, your parents always want you to come home.

62. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you get sick.

63. 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).

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

65. Your parents never go to the movies.

66. Your parents send money to their relatives in China.

67. You use a face cloth.

68. Your parents use a clothes line.

69. You're always late.

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

71. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat buffet.

72. You've joined a CD club at least once.

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

74. You never discuss your love life with your parents.

75. Your parents are never happy with your grades!!

76. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again.

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

78. You keep most of your money in a savings account.

79. You own an MJ set and possibly have a room set up in the basement.

80. You know what MJ means. [no, it's not Michael Jackson: It's Mahjong!] - hoos that??

81. You've been on the Love Boat or know someone who has.

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

83. You say "whie" when answering your cell phone.

84. You are familiar with the term "aiee yah...".

85. You know what moon cakes are.

86. You know why this list consists of only "88" reasons.

87. You enclose your remote controls in plastic to keep fingerprints off them.

88. You take this message and forward it to all your Chinese friends


... I live in Canada and I don't really identify myself too much like this. and I am also born in Canada. I'm not too much of a CBC then O_o

[jay_jolin_fan_19]

I am ABC. I'm totally what no.54 stated " You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions "

[hobielover]

A lot of these apply to me, even though I'm not Chinese. Maybe that means I'm becoming more Chinese, LOL! I'm late, though, because my friends are all Latin American. Never go to a Chinese restaurant with Latin American friends, or vice versa!

[Shirlz]

Haha... My brother does like 100% of them cept hes not a ABC.. hes a BBC :P

[hobielover]

Here are some of the things from the list I do:

I'm shorter than 5'8" (5'3", but I round up to 5'4"), but I drive a Suzuki.
I'm less than 20 and have a nice MP3 player.
I save containers all the time.
I refuse my grandpa's produce, or try to.
I used a sandwich box as a plate for supper once so I wouldn't use more dishes.
There are 2 pitchers of re-filtered water in the fridge, even though the water is filtered already.
I watch the non-dubbed movies. I watched "CJ7," "Kung Fu Dunk," "Secret," and "Initial D" with no English dub.
I say "wei" on the phone.
I know why there are 88 ways to know.
I try to be late, but I hate it when I'm on time, because then I'm 3 hours early. LOL!
I never go to the movies.
When you see the shrimp still while it's still swimming, then you know it's fresh!

[chiru]

I got all eighty eight but ten. But most of those were the ones that did not apply to me, because I am still in high school. (>__<) And I do not use e-mail very often, so I would not forward stuff to my friends....

But I am not even Chinese, I am Taiwanese so I guess I do not really apply....

[fuzz]

ahhahaa this list is amazing, i'm gonna have to quote you on alot of these =P