You Know you're VIET when....
you eat everything with fish sauce and/or soy sauce
you sit and eat with one foot on the chair
got pho?
you or someone you know is doing something illegal
ur parents don't send u to ur room, they beat the crap out of u
you love any games involving cards, especially Tien Len and Poker
you're addicted to gambling (of course not)
you don't mind spending 100 dollars on a bottle of water (dont think thats true)
u and ur friends fight til death for the bill when u guys go eat
you wear all brand name clothes (...)
you love chinese/korean movies, especially the long ones with a billion episodes
you've never seen your parents kiss, hold hands, or say "i love you" to each other and if they do anything like that, you'd be ******** grossed out
you either went across the street from your high school to gamble or went to the billiards nearby to play pool or jits
your parents are strict as hell
you had to kneel on jackfruit peels, if you still have to do this, i feel very sorry for you, call children's aid!!
you drive a Toyota, Acura or Honda
your parents still call you by your viet nick name (usually starts with cu or be)
your parents teach you to say hi to people but they never say hi to you.
when you step out of the house for anythin, ur parents think you're going to join a gang...
you learn so fast, you scare the s**t out of your teachers, but you hate going to school
you noi voi me like this cuz it's too rude to use tau voi may and it's too weird to use anh, chi, em...
your last name is Nguyen ...ok fine, not all of you, but you're probably related to a Nguyen tho.
your parents only want you to be a doctor, a dentist or a lawyer... wth happened to all other professions???
you or someone you know does nails or works in a salon
you have a karaoke system at home but you go to karaoke bars anyway
your religion is most likely Buddhism or Christianity
when your family has a get together party, they talk and laugh so loud, like a fish market, oh and of course they do karaoke
you used to get those ridiculous bowl or mushroom haircuts (ahah, they make me laugh XD)
no matter where you go, you look at other asian people wondering if they're Viet
your hair used to be split w/ yellow highlights and now it's spiked! (guys)
ur Chinese friend's parents speak to you in Cantonese/Mandarin, u haven't got a clue how to answer so you just nod and smile...
you love war movies (Troy, Gladiator, 300 etc...) cus they remind you of kiem hiep! (chinese movies with billion episodes)
you've had to translate for your parents at least several times and it annoyed the hell out of you
you have so many relatives, some of which you never knew existed, and you haven't got a clue how you're related to them, basically, you have one messed up family tree
you grow only your pinky finger nail, who knows why the hell you do that (guys)
someone in your family has an engineering degree
you always find excuses to party, in fact, you party all the time for no apparent reason
you've probably seen a Paris by Night, Van Son or Asia...
you stay healthy by taking herbs and vitamin E
u love wearing the hard core viet flip flops, indoor and outdoor
you've witnessed a slaughtering of a pig and/or chicken
you do the viet squat (sitting down like you're...)
you love soccer, and you wonder why vietnam never makes it to the world cup
you have cravings for instant noodles sometimes and you don't know why
your uncle that just came over from vietnam gets booked by the cops for capturing those poor geese at the parks (ahah, i'd like to see that happen)
u eat those duck eggs for snack (the ones used in Fear Factor)
you love banh chung, banh gio, banh uoc, you name it, anything that starts with banh...
you had 1294495745967 god brothers and sisters
if u liked a girl and she didn't like u, u asked her to be ur god sister
your parents always compare you to other kids
your parents don't know a thing about you
you have a load of bags in your lower kitchen cabinet (taken from grocery stores for home use such as garbage bags...)
your relatives in the states are filthy rich from nail stores
your parents told you they found you in the trash can
at some point of ur life, you went to those pointless new year fest thing where you walked around and did nothing, and said hi to the same people over and over and it got awkward after the 100th time, then you left
you can't date til you're 16
Your parents think you're the worst kid
Your dad wears glasses and always has the good old' hair combed to the side look
You always have pounds of rice around the house
You use your dishwasher to store clean dishes
You, or someone u know has that immigrant mark on their left or right arm and if they do, it means they were born in vietnam
You have a bucket in ur bathtub
Your parents constantly barge in your room when you're on the computer asking why you aren't doing homework (even when u don't have ne) and threaten to cut your internet
Your shoe shelf is outside ur front door
You have "thit kho" for dinner at least once a week
You know you're Viet when your family uses newspapers as your place mat
People admire you and your country for being the only country that ever beats the AMERICAN,and the FRENCH in a modern WAR. Oh and the Chinese too.
Your parents hang those viet calendars on every wall in your home that they collect from the viet markets
Your mom leaves something in the freezer for about a year and wont throw it out cuz she thinks food last forever in the freezer
You know ur'e viet when there's a pile of vietnamese news paper (thoi bao) lying in the corner of ur house somewhere
Your dad or uncle host one of those drinking party every friday or saturday night and they all sit in a circle on the floor with piles of beer on the side and "tuyet canh" as the main dish
your mom uses the garage as her second kitchen because she don't want to stink up the house, especially when she makes "mam ruoc"
your mom records every episodes of Cai Luong and lend them to the rest of the family members and friends
your mom saves all your Halloween candies to give out next Halloween
