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27 Signs You Grew Up With Asian Immigrant Parents

"Did you eat yet?"
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Associate Editor, The Huffington Post

Growing up in an Asian household is an experience like no other. If you've been blessed to grow up with Asian immigrant parents, you know it comes with its own joys and struggles. This one's for you.

1
Your household has a collection of complimentary hotel soaps, shampoos and conditioners. Same goes for salt, sugar and ketchup packets.
2
You get super excited when your parents give you a red envelope on Chinese New Year. Then you compare how much money you got with your siblings.
3
You NEVER let a grocery bag go to waste.
4
Sometimes when you asked your parents if you could hang out with friends, they left you confused AF.
5
When you left for college, your parents bought you a mini rice cooker.
6
You use your index finger to measure how much water to put in rice.
7
No A+? No TV.
8
When your friends come over to your house, they ask "Why is your mom yelling?!"
9
These items haunt you until this day.
10
Too. real.
11
You grew up addicted to these.
12
It's become a habit for you to take your shoes off at the doorstep.
13
Your mom guilt tripped you every time you tried to get out of doing the dishes.
14
Your dishwasher is used as a drying rack.
15
These were your childhood go-to snacks.
16
Dim sum is your weekend brunch.
17
Whether you had mosquito bites or headaches, tiger balm was the cure. Who needs a doctor when your parents have every home remedy possible?
18
You have too many aunties and uncles to count.
19
All of your remotes looked like this.
20
Rice all day, everyday.
21
Your parents would always lie about your age at an Asian buffet.
22
You're all-too-familiar with the smell of durian.
23
You wish you had Lunchables instead of rice and meat for lunch.
24
If your parents came home with Pocky, it was the best. day. ever.
25
*ACCURATE*
26
You OWNED the extracurricular game.
27
You know the disappointment of opening these containers and finding sewing supplies.

At the end of the day, your know your parents will always be proud of you and love you precisely for who you are. And it goes without saying, but you really wouldn't have it any other way. 

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