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
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.
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. :)
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. 😂
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...
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 :/
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.
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.
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!
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! :)
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
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?
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
+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
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.
My family’s piano is sitting in the basement covered with a blanket with dust all over after not being played for 5 years after my brother and I both quit. There is also three violins rotting away in my house all of different sizes after my siblings and I all quit.
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. :)
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.)
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
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.
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.
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... 😰
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 think it's a good idea to have the sofa covered in plastic because it saves you from cleaning your couches and those calendars actually look really cool
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?
He forgot a mountain range of plastics bags in a cabinet
***** yeup
Sean The Duck same XD
Lol yea
+Sean The Duck ACCURATE OML
Lol I BET you my mom has a bigger pile of plastic bags than you, or anyone for that matter. It's a straight up mountain in the middle of the pantry.
"I don't think my parents paid for a calendar once."
Me: Wait, people pay for calendars??
I thought the same.
omg i thoguht my asian parents were the only ones
Yes we love beautiful calendars and we pay for them.
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 kind of Eastern household doesn't have the biscuit tin with sewing supplies or the ice cream tub with leftovers???
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?!?!
Yeah, and mooncake tins
Mine do to
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
ice cream tub with leftovers sounds like very filipino- ish
Is it just me or does every Asian has like a gigantic pile of plastic bags hidden in the house? Mine are kept under the sink
Mt. Plastic is in the pantry.
Quenrir Dessinateur between fridge and wall
Quenrir Dessinateur just in a regular old kitchen cabinet for me
Quenrir Dessinateur I'm so used to of it I even have one at work in case I need it lmao
Quenrir Dessinateur mine are just a bag inside of a bag, and a bag inside of a bag, and a bag inside of a bag, and a bag inside of a bag, and so on
Dont forget the rice itself bc youre not asian if you dont have a sacks of rice in your house
My grandma keeps it in a bucket. The lid is held down with a head of cabbage. Dinner requires no refridgeration.
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!
Dragon Meari I have 100 rice sacks
Tiger balm or medicated green oil is ALWAYS needed in an asian household
Tiger Balm has saved me many many times
Northern Europeans have something similar called Vick: it smells very similar and it's used exactly the same way. :D
Claptrap Claptrap, Yep! It's called Vicks and it's a life saver, haha!
tiger balm just smell like mint cream, what exactly can it do?
Katelynn Mullins
No, it's not your American chemical brand, it's called katinko.
i am surprised they didn't talk about this one big plastic bad filled with many smaller plastic bags 0.0
+mansi xavier no way man, i think everyone does that. i'm white and latina and both my parents passed it down.
sordid queer oh.... :|
mansi xavier w-wait, don't be upset! isn't it nice that so many cultures have those weird little quirks??
+mansi xavier YES!!!! that was more common than bamboo cover sheet.bamboo is so 80s
RonLarhz Ikr!
One more thing: Plastic bags... LOTS of them stored in somewhere. hahaha
This is so accurate.
yeah, I have a little space filled with plastic bags.
there's a high chance we folded a lot of them and stored inside a plastic bag
Potato Owl Lol.. yes.. I have a bag full of plastic bags.
Potato Owl lol ikr
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.
I was traumatized the first time I saw rice on a stove.
puttputt524 Same!!! And it taste so different to what rice cooked in a rice cooker taste like as well😑
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.
My Asian dad has this saying IF IT'S FREE IT'S FOR ME
does anyone else have those calendars where you tear it off to see the next date and it even has like your "horoscope" on there ?
I have it and hi sehun
+Watch BTS - Fire thank u Yet again ARMY 😂
+Park JiminJams hahaha hello fam
heLLo international playboy [;
jbcu. Yea me
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.
Hahahaha😂
Hahahaha daebak!
J. Midnite your not very lucky, my couches not covered in plastic and I'm Asian
Wanna bet that the keyboard I'm using right now is covered in plastic? I also have a jade rooster added cuz it's the new year!
Are you also waiting for your rice to cook so you can put soy sauce on it? 😛
I have every single thing plus a cabinet full of plastic bags 😂
Plastic on the tv remote? Phone (back wen we ha landlines)?
+puttputt524 That too omg xD
Plastic covers on the couches
Plastic bags for life
YES
plastic covered remote - it's classic. lol
Don't start! HOLY!
Its what my ada taught me.
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
Checklist for me, a punjabi
Glasses: yep
Calendar: yep
Rice cooker: nope
Slippers: yep
Soy sauce: yep
Wok: yep
Piano: yep
Plastic covers: yep
Bamboo plant: nope
And you forgot chopsticks. :). Indispensible in every Asian household! They are the best egg-beaters ever lol.
Forks are better, I'm chinese too.
Cadao Nguyen I live in Britain and I use chopsticks!
i literally eat almost everything with chipsticks, including pizza. i also ate breakfast cereal with chopsticks once
I have chopsticks in my house and I'm from America.
Jessica Pondell OK just stop
Guys.
You forgot CHOPSTICKSSSSSSSSS
In the Philippines we don't use chopsticks
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.
When I first faced a fork, I was holding it with both hands trying to eat.
I'm black and sometimes I end up with more chopsticks in the house than forks. Over time, forks just seem to mysteriously walk away.
True! It's weird!
Average Asian grading...
A-amazing
B-beaten up
C-can't come home
E-end
D-dead literally
F-forever remember you in heaven
Mortal Gum there is no heaven.
D and E switched
A is average 😂😂
I remember it as
A - average
B - below average
C - can’t come home
D - don’t bother coming home
F - find a new family
True lol
I made POUND CAKE in my rice cooker. I made a desert in a rice cooker. This is a needed utensil in the kitchen!
Wow that's pawsome.! Bet it was really good !🌹
I just finished making some kothey momo ( Nepalease version of dumpling)
I feel like most asian household also has those prayer statues in their house.
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. :)
Totally agree with you on this one!
It's not only Asians though, my family does that too. It's easier to take out the trash
Doesn't everyone do that?
That's not that much Asian. All swiss people do that and we never walk in with shoes on.
omg yes!!! but then when you go shopping you can't use a reusable bag or else you won't have garbage bags.
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
+TheMissPelled same.hi 5
+TheMissPelled my parent 20 years old tv remote still have plastic wrap on it. water resistance technology xD
+TheMissPelled have you ever heard of screen protectors? glass ones especially?
BenjaminLee2009 why buy a screen protector when there is one for you already it's on perfectly no air bubbles
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.
What about those thick Asian blankets
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. 😂
That's what I do as well
torille siit
Iris D All households in Singapore go barefoot xD
In Canada we also take our shoes off :)
I think Chinese and Finnish are gonna get along just fine ;)
Soyyyyyyyyyy sauuuuuucccceeee IS FRIKEN LIFFFFEEEEEEE
I lick it off my chopsticks
Hell yeah😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
HuoKuzi Inc. for me soy sauce is literally saved for porridge only...
HuoKuzi Inc. I Love Soy Sauce with lemon😍
HuoKuzi Inc.
never tried it 😢😭😭
Glasses - Yes
Calendar - Yes
Rice Cooker - Yes
Soy Sauce - Yes
Wok - Yes
Slippers - Yes
Plastic Cover - No
Piano - No
Bamboo Plant - No
Bamboo sheet - No
I'm from Malaysia, I'm a Malaysian Chinese.
Amanda Toong you NEED a bamboo plant
Off the Great Wall LOL... my house is small.
I'm a New Zealand born chinese malaysian ^_^
Eugenia Lee
hey! nice to meet you!
***** Yea I haven't seen any household who still keep the plastic covers
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?
Yes? But Asians are awesome!
Yesh!
Bamboo Plant: It died, I laughed so hard when I read that! Mostly because same thing happened with mine XD
***** 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...
Jane Cui omg how you kill lucky bamboo? all you need to do is water it
I have every single one of those things that were mentioned in the video except the calendars.
Really really...... =_=" i have like ten.....
My family has one but give it away to my aunts shops lol
I have an asian calender in every room in my house except for the bathrooms. Literally
LOL, how do you keep up with all that calendar lol. Do you go to every room and mark the day? XD
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 :/
we literally do not take down chinese new year decorations
New year all year long!
Same! Also love you profile picture!
ya for gl
The flyswatter comment had me cracking up so hard
you forgot the sesame oil and the electric flyswat
Stephanie Chang lol check out our sauces video
+Stephanie Chang electric flyswat not true tho.
Nope, I don't have that........ lel
lmao there's no such thing as electric flyswat for the asian ninjas
Omg yess!!
I'm Indian and I have everything on this list except for Bamboo sheets....
Naiya Patel get some!
Naiya Patel Im Thai, and half of Thai culture is Indian XD
India geographically is part of Asia
Most of these items are from the Chinese Culture :)
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.
In Vietnam, instead of soy sauce it's fish sauce. We put fish sauce in everything.
True lolol i use fish sause in every food lolol
The Buddha you forgot the Buddha art and yeah *because I'm Thai*
Don't worry Chinese and Japanese
and Korean and Vietnamese
SOme of us are not Buddhist, but then again some households do have those
Yeah, in my house, there's this little Buddha statue sitting in the corner with those weird candle things by it's side.
I'm Thai and Buddhist but we have a special room for the Buddha's and art to pray to
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.
WHERE IS THE TIGER BALM
They forgot it!!!!!
We need to put them in jail it’s illegal to forget
I'm in Korea. I have all of these in my house. Including the bamboo. But my cat eats the bamboo. ㅋㅋㅋ
just kill your cat
i hate cat
Wae ): Some of us love Cats
Wonder Woman cats*
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나도 코리안이야 근대 나는 고양이가 없어.I am also korean but i don't have a cat
My family doesn't have the bamboo plant - We have the money plant XD
Inksplatterpoetry - Alexander my family has no plastic covers
It's frickin great how you guy's can laugh at yourselves and keep things in perspective. right on dudes. Cheers...
Almost all of these things are found in Indian houses too(including mine)
indian is considered asian. :p
indians are Asians! 😅
Shubham R Indians are Asian..
India is in Asia..
indians are south asians
I’m Canadian we don’t wear shoes in the house either. Not all of us wear slippers though, I mostly go barefoot.
You forgot the TIGER BALM
Also, does anyone else's parents use plastic bags from the grocery store as trash bags?
THE FREE ASIAN CALENDAR OMG YEAS
Ikr. Every Chinese New Year party I go to has calendars , and I always get them😂
I'm like the only asian that did not learn a musical instrument when I was young
Same! Besides the recorder, I had to learn that at school.
I had to learn piano AND violin :P
I've always wanted to learn the violin! Do you think it's an Asian thing? Hehe. ^^
Melissa Z. idk but most of my asian cousins took violin in school instead of the many other choices :3
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!
Ninja Bui yessssssssss so true about the cabinet FILLED with plastic bags
I am a mixed Asian (Chinese/Viet) and I legit do everything you stated haha
you forgot the percolator. the hot water dispenser
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
Tianna Woo You killed your bamboo!? OMG! 7 years bad luck!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~!
Growilkku Nuuuuuuuuuuuu ;^; but it died naturallyyyyyyy
Oh, okay. Then...^_^ :P
Just remembered that my bamboo also died 5 years ago...unnaturally...-_-
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! :)
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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
You all forgot chopsticks
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?
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
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.
You forgot fans & pillows on beds
dianapham09 What do you mean by pillows on beds? Where else would you have pillows?
I mean like one of those Asian types of pillows on beds
Instead of hugging a stuffed animal while sleeping, they have like one of those Asian types of pillows (long ones)..
dianapham09 Not quite sure what you mean there. Can you link a picture so I know what you are talking about?
OH! I found out the name.. It's called, "bolster".
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....
wasn't it always? =p
Well I'm Vietnamese and I have all the items
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...
What about an altar to pay homage for our elders.
you're r8
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Is that the thing with Buddha, red lights and bowls of oranges?
You forgot one of the most important part of a complete Asian household:grandparents/parents.
How could you forget...
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. :)
Ali B Thanks :-)
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.
Ramen noodles, hot dogs, rice... Mike, I'm glad you survived.
Tiffany Acuff it was AWESOME!
buying a rice cooker a couple weeks ago changed my life
My dad has a wok and he uses it for everything. As soon as I found it it was the default cooking utility:)
I have everything except the piano. But I did take violin lessons growing up. Very accurate 😆
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.
Taking off your boots before entring the house should be mandatory in any country. Spreading dirt around the house is unsanitary and disgusting.
As a fellow asain....I can say thag this is true, RICE IS LIFE -
1:10 ......*looks up on my bedroom wall*
..I HAVE THAT!
I'm Filipino and these all apply to me LOL
Katrina
I'm filipino too
You do realize Filipinos are a type of Asian right?... Southeast Asian to be exact...
oh yeah,sorry lol. I'm so stupid 😂
+Katrina Nah, it's ok were just so used to being called Filipino's that sometimes we forget we're also Asian...
+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
ohdaUtube korean japanese and chinese are not the only asians.....
when they got to the piano I was like "nope the piano is in my room."
What about a hot water dispenser?
one ESSENTIAL thing left.. bidet sprayer!!!
(you know.. the sprayer beside the toilet to wash your.. thing)
the plastic covered furniture instills horrific memories of when I was growing up. You would never sit on them wearing shorts.
PIANO
Me: YES. my dad expects me to learn Silent night before christmas. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GODDAMN YEAR I'M A GODDAMN BEGINNER
I'm Indian, and I have all of these.
+Hammad Syed well, this may be a surprise, but India happens to be in... Asia!!!!
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.
Indian is Asian
I'm asian and I don't have half of the stuff that was listed.
Something that every asian household confirm: has
chopsticks. i went to my friend who isnt asian and I'm like, where is the chopsticks?
My family’s piano is sitting in the basement covered with a blanket with dust all over after not being played for 5 years after my brother and I both quit. There is also three violins rotting away in my house all of different sizes after my siblings and I all quit.
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. :)
Are you adopted?
deadpooli3 Yes.
KittyCatRosa We have a pressure cooker too, actually.
Charlene Jo
That is cool. :) Do you like using one?
It does make cooking rice a lot faster. My mom makes baked eggs too (as opposed to hard-boiled
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.)
Ramielle Antequisa lol 9/10 not bad :-)
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 am Indian and most people I know have soy sauce
I'm am indian and my sister looks chinese. Well yeah literally everyone around here looks the stereotype asian
Indians are considered Asians. South-Asiasn
These videos are so interesting I like exploring the customs of other ethnicities
Surprised how accurate this is...
I agree to all except for the plastic wrap part haha
Agreed! Nobody I know has plastic covers. Weird.
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.
Same lol. But we have it on our tv and my phone because my parents won't let me take it off. Haha
Felis Dee Dude, we added the plastic cover ourselves.
all of these apply to me except the plastic and piano too. i have the violin instead
You aren’t a true Asian if u have a rice cooker you have to make it rice by hand
I don't have plastic covers and a piano plus I don't learn any music
Same here I don't think we ever pay for calendar. And we always get so beautiful calendar...
cooked egg with soy sauce on top of a plate of rice= literally the best lunch for me I love it
I have most of these things in my house and not a drop of Asian in me (that i'm aware off).
Jessica Valentine same. It's kind of weird. I was told once I must have been Asian in a past life, but I don't believe in that. I'm just weird. 😅👍
i take my shoes off, but i cant stand slippers
I am Chinese and everything is true except for the plastic coverings
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.
The slipper thing (along with separate bathroom slippers) is also a major thing in a Turkish house.
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... 😰
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)
amelia nightwolf i dont do that
You-
Then how does the rice taste?
Each person adds their own flavor. I add sweet and sour to mine. Soy Sauce too salty.
+Nanci E. guess so, that's all we add really, oil to make the rice less sticky, and salt to amplify the flavor a bit
+amelia nightwolf Oh wow! Yes! Oil makes the rice less sticky! I didn't know that! Thank you!!!!!!
Omg the plastic furniture covers, I thought it was only a black people thing lmao
except it's been with Asians longer
joking xD
Lol. Me too
+Edward Joel Everyone does that coz it keeps things cleaner for a longer period of time.
I thought it was a Latino thing
I think it's a good idea to have the sofa covered in plastic because it saves you from cleaning your couches and those calendars actually look really cool
India is also part of Asia, however except for calendar non of the other things are common here. Also we buy calendar.
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?
East and South East asians.
+hendra ibaraki
Which is part of Asia, as opposed to Europe.
+CN Alfred
Oriental just mean eastern.
Oriental Europe = east of Germany.
Occidental Europe = Germany and westwards.
:)
+hendra ibaraki
That's... kinda racist.
Southeast
I am Asian yet I don't have some if these things
does phillopino count?
ok
I guess we Filipinos are a very special kind of Asian ;D
I do but I don't have a wok,Chinese calender,and plastic wrap ed stuff
What's with the pillopino!you mean Filipino
You don't have wok?😱😱😱even people in the mountains they have wok(kawali)
Why do you have to make videos on stereotypes. It's kinda annoying
But they are soooo true!!! Like seriously its unbelievable. They have experience :D
GameJuice They are not true for me
oh...
I think it's interesting and informative to other cultures. Although it does not apply to all, it definitely brings insight to general Asian culture.
***** why would I love it
Don't forget the instant noodles!!!! We have *hundrets* packages of ramen in the kitchen.😂🍜
Very spot on with this list. So true that I had to chuckle. One other plastic items....we cover our TV remote controls with plastic wrap.