Only in the US you get free, we in South East Asia have to pay for our Chinese calendars & our Chinese calendars look good (either with a big Fook "prosperous" or with scenery) most important was the chinese dates telling you the auspicious days, Chinese Lunar New Year, when is full or half moon, when is spring festival or dumpling festival, etc. I am a Malaysian Chinese. Agree that we do wear slippers inside the house & rice is our staple diet.
WHAT?!?! OMG I thought my mom just used a biscuit tin because that was convenient and sturdy... How many Chinese moms have re purposes biscuit tins?!?!
yes,, i remembered when i was looking for biscuits i saw a biscuit tin and i was so happy but then when i opened i was shocked to see sewing kits. hahahaha! :D :D :D
and its always gotta be not like normal sized rice. some poeple go to the store and get you know 1-2 lb bags and if they dare maybe the 5 lb one.. NOPE NOT HERE!! lmao ive got like 50 lbs of rice in my little rice barrel sitting on top of a rice dispenser. put the cup under it press down that lever and it gives you a cupp of rice lol
Lololol in our house, weve got two containers of rice that are big, mind you. And then other people from our family suddenly pops up bringing sacks of rice home maybe they bring like 2 sacks a month wth asia
oh yea ikr. why do you think i have 50 lbs of it.. thats not including the extra ones family get you. i know some people would be like 50lbs?? thats it? i buy 2 25 lb bags a month sometimes a third.. i know some poeple that are like ppppffffftt i have enough rice i could hibernate and live off it through the WINTER!
all my non-asian friends get so confused when i get my rice cooker out and they are like, "Are you going to put that in the stove?" me: "no, I am going to push the button and sit down."😂 They are so amazed.
Jenny P my dad says that is more like rice from when he was a kid, and making rice involved building a fire. some of it is burnt, some still uncooked. The cooker just makes a nice consistency.
One day my friends and I were cooking I my home and one of them asked me when would i cook rice. I then told them that i have already set the rice to cook in a rice cooker and they were all surprised. They asked me if I was referring to the white container like thing.
Huh. My family has always used a Crock Pot from time to time, and we now use an Instant Pot, so I didn't bat an eye when I found out about rice cookers.
It's funny watching this while I'm sitting in plastic covered seats, beside my free asian calendar and my plastic covered phone while surrounded by bamboo and my wok in sight.
Checklist for me, a bengali: Glasses: yes Calendar: yes Rice cooker: yes Slippers: yesss, we have them for the bathroom but we mostly walk barefoot everywhere else haha Soy sauce: yes Wok: yup Piano: nope Plastic cover: for some things, especially the remote Bamboo plant: no and of course we've got the stash of plastic bags
I think most Asian families also use plastic bags or paper bags to line the rubbish bin and then tie it up once it is filled, before dumping it away. :)
It's no longer definitive for being Asian! All my white friends have a good number of chopsticks in their utensil ware, just for eating Chinese food. Hilariously I am the Chinese one, but among my roommates I'm the only one who eats Chinese food with a fork. Fried rice is a pain in the ass to eat with chopsticks, compared to say, a ladle.
Glasses: Yes Calendar: Yes Rice Cooker: Yes Soy Sauce: Yes Wok: Yes but somewhere in the basement Plastic cover: Used to Piano: In my old house, closest thing I have now is a keyboard (Never played it, just had it) Bamboo Plant: It died Slippers: Has them, no one uses them (We still don't walk inside with shoes on, just with socks or barefoot) Bamboo covers: Used to Jade: Yes So am I a stereotypical Asian person?
***** It's not a photo of me, its one of my favorite memes lol. But it doesn't really matter because I was thinking about switching it to something else...
i never take off the plastic cover on smartphones (unless it starts peeling off by itself or has writing on it) Its like extra protection for your phone :D
me 2, when my first $400+ cellphone felt n screen broken n it was totally cant read sim card (useless), I right away put on a screen protector for my new phone.
I'm from Finland and here we always take our shoes off too when we go inside. We don't have slippers though, we just walk with our socks on. It's comfortable, clean and I can't understand why it its weird for foreigns. 😂
This list seems to be more specific to Chinese households than to Asian households.I was raised in Japan & my wife was raised in Korea. No Asian household we know has; A wok in their kitchen. Plastic covers on their furniture. A bamboo plant in their house. Bamboo sheets. A piano in their home. But electronic keyboards, guitars & violins are common.
somneang say nah. I never mark my calendars but it is a bother changing the months so i always end up with piles of ripped-out pages from asian calendars. I use them for my paintings though :/
I am Nepali and every house I visit literally have buddhas small statues, like sayings or photos in the walls. Even though they are hindu they really accept him as god. I am hindu but I read and is taught about the saying of buddha and meaning.
Glasses - yup! Calendar - yes! Rice Cooker - yep! Soy Sauce - hai ah! ("yes" in Cantonese) Wok - *nods* Slippers - Eeeeeyup! Plastic Cover - nerp :P Piano - yupperoo!~ Bamboo Plant - used to. But then it died... Bamboo sheet - no :I 8/10. Whattttt but I'm 100% Chinese! :O Then again... I live in Canada XD
I'm Cantonese and actually, there really is no designated word for "yes" in Canto. In that context, you would probably say "有”(Sorry, I don't know the pin yin) By the way, I like your Equius profile pic! :)
My house has every one of these, and more! Including... Plastic bags galore A cleaver (aka the king of all knives) Bags of rice Plastic takeout containers Oven full of anything but food Chopsticks Rags made out of old clothes Plastic utensils from takeout Are some of these things just my house or do you have them too?
I am from India and was nodding so hard while watching this, thinking, "Oh yeah! Damn! We do have this at our home as well." Only two things I would like to alter a bit, so even Indians can completely agree to this list:- 1. Soy Sauce- Instead we have pickles! Pickles are like life savior if someone's cooking is really bad, just add a little bit and you are good to gobble down anything. It's like a super magical thing, more like an add-on. Some housewives are capable of making pickles out of anything and everything. Mango pickle is the most popular one though but one can expect anything to be turned into a pickle. Homemade pickles are considered to be the best, since they are more hygienic and tastier with no preservatives ruining the taste. 2. Piano- We hardly have any musical instrument in homes, but to boast how creative our kid is we showoff his/her painting or an artwork which he/she did way back in school days or so. Mostly these are displayed in the most obvious place possible so that no guest would leave without noticing them. No kid is ever proud of those lame artworks (at least I am not) but still Indian parents would put their efforts and money to frame them nicely and display in their homes.
I think wearing shoes inside is so fucking weird?? Doesnt the sand and stuff get everywhere and you have to clean way more often and dont your feet get sweaty all the time
Not true, I'm musically retarded myself and didn't learn music (or maybe its becos I didn't learn music that I'm musically retarded) but I love to listen to a whole range of music genre.
Im vietnamese, but my family doesn't have a wok. We also don't have any plastic covers. We have soy sauce, but fish sauce is more important in our family. We don't have slippers, we just walk bare feet, and we don't have bamboo plants. Everything else is right. You also forgot the cabinet filled with plastic bags!
Hmm it would be more appropriate if this was titled,"Items you'd find in every CHINESE household" or "East Asian Household" But I apparently Asia =China nowadays....
Jennifer Nguyen : I have some, but not all.... I agree it should be called '' Things found in every Chinese home'' because it seems to be centred to a Chinese household and not per say Asia as a whole.
Obviously Asian is not equal Chinese, and personally I am sometimes offended by that as a Japanese person. I obviously don't make a scene/drama out of it, I just gently point out the fact that I'm not Chinese even if the person is being obnoxious or rude. Hey I love Chinese stuff too and I always give my full respect to the Chinese people just like i would respect everyone else. Also, I know i wouldn't be able to survive without them as fellow Asian xxx But then, I think people can understand why i can sometimes get quite annoyed by that at times...I don't want to live under the shadow of the Chinese because i'm not Chinese! >.< I like my own identity thank you very much xxx (winks) While there are far more Chinese people in the Western American world compared to the people from other Asian countries... like Korea, Japan, Vietnam...Cambodia..Laos..Malaysia...etc , please treat non-Chinese Asian with respect and sensitivity regarding this manner people >.< (hugs hugs hugs)
exactly, i hate it when people saying that asians = chinese... even though china has the biggest number of citizens, there's more to what you call Asian...
Oh god you guys are right about the rice cooker! I'm in college, and it makes my life so much easier. I have a really good one, and it's basically a slow cooker, steamer and rice cooker. :) You can basically make entire meals in it without effort. (Plus you can make extra rice, keep it in the fridge, and then make fried rice out of it later, so you can make 2-3 meals in like... a couple of hours.) Basically it is totally the best thing ever when you're in college.
It might be weird but I lived with several house-mates from China, Japan and Korea and of course they all had their own rice cooker. I can't use them. :( Every time I tried to cook rice in the rice cooker (even after they told me how) it would either be undercooked or overcooked or it would stick to the bottom. I have to use a pot. LOL. I just can't use a rice cooker, they all hate me (kind of like self-serve checkouts actually). [Sigh] One day I'll master them. Great vids BTW guys. :)
Dear Ali B, can't help but to reply to ur comments abt cooking rice though it's been 5mths. If u cook 1cup of rice, put in 1 n 1/2cup of water. So if u'll to cook 2 cups rice, then put in 3cups water. Dun open e lid only after button jumps to 'cooked'. Hope tis helps. Gd Luck! :)
+Ali B Actually one can cook rice with a microwave! It's a little more difficult than using a rice cooker though because you have to know how much time to use and it involves some trial and error.
+hendra ibaraki exactly. half the world cook rice very successfully without a rice cooker. how did people cook rice before rice cookers were invented? SMH.
omg bamboo sheets , so nostalgic . I love to just relax on those when I was little but as I growing up , my parent start to throw away those sheet because its already torned off
+Nadlie “The Potato” Hime i know tons of Filipinos who identify as Pacific Islander, whether they are from the Philippines or Hawaii. Which is different from Chinese Hawaiians who still identify as Chinese.
Korean and Japanese household here. Only glasses, soy sauce, and slippers at our place. Instead of "Asian household", this may be just "Chinese household"? I've seen pianos in Korean households more than Japanese, never seen plastic covers on furniture in Korean nor Japanese, and haven't seen bamboo plants in either households either. Sounds like you guys need more Korean and Japanese friends to make statements about Asian culture in general? A little misleading but an interesting look into Chinese culture/nuances
Glasses - YES! YES! YES! (My family consists of me, my parents, younger brother and younger sister. We ALL wear glasses although my dad only owns reading glasses while the rest of us wear glasses for daily use.) Calendar - YES! (We have at least 3 FREE calendars in our house.) Rice Cooker - YES, OF COURSE (I'm currently living alone because of college and I do own a rice cooker. I also use it to cook a lot of things.) Soy Sauce - OH YES (Soy sauce for everything!!!) Wok - YES! (I think it's already 20 years old.) Plastic Cover - NOPE (We did not do this at home, ever. Although I know some of my relatives still do this.) Piano - KINDA? (It wasn't really an upright or grand piano. It was an electric keyboard if I'm correct. My younger sister used to play one. We sold it a few years back.) Bamboo - NOPE (Well, as far as I can remember we didn't have any bamboo in our house. We are actually part Chinese on my mother's side but we don't really practice a lot of Chinese traditions. Although I have an aunt who loves feng shui and her house always smells of incense. I know she has some bamboo in her house.) Slippers - OH YES (Each of us owns 3 pairs of slippers: 1 for inside the house, one outside the front door and 1 outside the back door. Another pair for the bathrooms and some extra slippers for the guests.) Bamboo Covers - YES! (I haven't seen them for a long time now.)
Nick Bell ik, but all there videos pertain to east Asia, and the items in this video, specifically soy sauce, the bamboo, and stuff, is from this part of asia. Like I bet none of those guys will have Achaar at home.
Omg!! Dan & Mikey, this video applies to Indians as well (except soy sauce & piano) India is an Asian country too except that we don't look anywhere similar to Koreans Japanese or Chinese
I do not come from an Asian family but my sister and I are Chinese. We do have a wok after about 10 years. We do not have rice cooker. I kind of wished we did. My dad loves cooking rice in a pressure cooker.. I wish rice cookers did not use aluminium and non-stick coating. I am the only one who wants to wear one shoe for inside only and another for outside only. :/ The floors are so dirty.. :'( My sister and I did not take piano or violin classes. We don't even have a piano. I wished I took lessons and sports. We do use the wok frequently for stir-fry. I eat rice everyday. :)
My grandparents had it for a while. But that seemed to stop after furniture stores stopped shrink wrapping most of their delivered furniture in plastic.
What do you guys actually count as Asian here? East-Russians? Mongolians? Turks? Israeli? Or is it just Vietnam, China, Korea(s), Japan and whomever I forgot?
Damn. I'm white af and do most of these things. (Including the taking your shoes off when you get home. Because its just practical. Instead of slippers, I have random flip-flops all over my apartment. And random shoes in my hallway.) 😳 Woks and rice cookers are just practical. Free calendars from Asian groceries are AWESOME (although I havent gotten one in a while.) I'm blind as shit and need glasses. And I need to get another bamboo plant since my cat ate the one I had for YEARS. I do like them. Pianos are cool, but Im broke and cant afford one. And the plastic is kinda creepy though... 😰
Yup I'm Asian and one time I went to my dad's friends house and I ask him if I needed to take off my shoes and he said no bc 9rs not a Asians house lol.
I'm Egyptian but I still love rice, I eat it 99% of the time if not all the time, guess the Nile river does have influence 😂 p.s I don't have a rice cooker but I know you're supposed to add salt and oil to the rice and water (why don't you add it)
I'm not Asian, but I've had lots of Asian roommates over the years and they all had these effin' MUSEUMS of different sauces in the kitchen. So many bottles, so little time.
Mom has glasses Free Asian calendars ✔️ Rice cooker✔️ All the Soy sauce✔️ The Wok(Japanese version one since I’m Japanese)✔️ Plastic wraps ✔️ The Grand piano ✔️ Bamboo plant❌ Slippers✔️ Tatami( bamboo sheets )✔️ I feel more Asian then I already am....
Glasses- Yes Calender- No Rice Cooker- Yes Soy Sauce- Yes Wok- Yes Plastic Furniture Covers- No, but my cousins have it on their dining room chairs and remotes The Piano- Yes and I play violin, and my brother plays piano Bamboo plant- No Slippers- Yes
Before rice cookers mom cook the rice in a average pot. The rice that remained around the pot was scraped and bacon drippings and salt was added. That was our pop corn. Mom rarely used soy sauce. She seasoned the food with shrimp paste or fermented soy beans. yes we did take our shoes off and made all the kids that came to our house take their shoes off too. No plastic covers for furniture's,she sewed doilies and covered the furniture with them. I don't think we had a wok either,or chopsticks.
Lol, it is funny... I visited South Korea and stayed with my Korean friends' families and they didn't have all of this stuff... slippers, glasses, rice cooker, soy sauce, wok - all yes... bamboo, wok, calendar - maybe, don't really remember those... piano and plastic covers - definitely not. Heehee, my name is Jade... *insert cheesy Jade joke here*
