Name: Growing Up Asian
Uploaded: 2018-11-01T01:30:08.000Z
Duration: 14 min 3 s
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Dom: Alright. Hello everyone. There's gonna be a different episode. It's not really a hypothetical

We just just felt like talking, you know, I'm here in California right now

We're staying at a Jomm's mom's place, Jomm's mom's-

Jmom's place.
And it made me remember some things of like, what it was like to live at home.

I'm here today joined by a couple friends. 
Claire: Hello

Dom: I'm sure we all have No slippers in the house.

Claire: No shoes?
Dom: No shoes, always slippers

Yeah, do you have that basket of slippers at the front door? 
Everyone: Yep

Claire: When people come over we always offer slippers,

Jomm: My issue with slippers is I end up walking outside a lot on accident with them on.

So it defeats the purpose of having slippers.

It's outside and I don't think about I just walk out and then it's like "Well now my slippers are dirty what different are they?"

Now they're shoes.
Dom: Now they're outdoor slippers, permanently.

Jomm: You ever have white friends that go to bed with shoes on?

First I was visiting his house and he just laid down on his bed with his shoes

Dom: [Gagging sounds] 
Ehlboy: Why though?! That's...

Dom: What's the urgency that you need to have your shoes on at all times?

Jomms: But it's like the opposite for them

It's like if I come into the house and I try to take my shoes off they're like "No just keep your shoes on dude"

And I probably feel safer that way anyways, if I wear my shoes in there. [laughing]

Dom: From an Asian family, we don't really do allowances

"I get like $100 a week." Like for doing what? "I don't know for existing?"

I ask my parents. "Why don't we get allowance?"

They didn't know what that meant. It's like "What's an all-ow-wance?"

Ehlboy: [Whispers] ...I- I got allowance...

Claire: What? 
Ehlboy: Okay but- okay, but

the trade off was, I had to do all the chores in the house.

Ehlboy: But my allowance was like three dollars a week

Ehlboy: That was my allowance.
Claire: That's- that's child labour

Dom: One of my main methods of gaining money as a kid was when I - uh-

picked white hair from my parent's heads [chuckling] (what?) (me too, me too)

And then they gave me money for each one I plucked out.

Claire: How much did you get?
Dom: It started off like a quarter for a hair and then went down to like ten cents and five cents

and then went down to just like, a penny.

And then they got older- obviously they got more hair, and then they realized,

"Oh this is not a good model, cuz- I'm gonna get bald."

So then they just started dyeing their hair.

Food eating etiquette, yes.
Ehlboy: I mean what you just learned with Jomm's mom, right?

If you eat real fast, they're like, "Oh you must really like the food"

So they just like dumped more food on your plate and then you're just like sitting there full.

Jomms: Yeah, so the trick is just eat really slow. 
Dom: I learn now

Claire: Yeah, we just have a bowl of rice or whatever and we have like all the side dishes in the middle

No one's gonna force you to like get more rice or like get more of this if you're done you're done

Jomms: Yeah, Koreans they'll keep feeding you until they're tired.

It's not a question like "Do you want more?" It's like "Oh, you *WANT* more"

Dom: The "Do" is silent in your sentences

I don't know about you guys, but every time when I have a friend who invites me for like dinner

You know bring this wine bottle that we've been like saving up for like the past five years"

Yeah you- I invited you to I think it was New Year's dinner?

And then you brought was that like the the bird's nest?

Yeah, I don't even know what it is. Apparently supposed to be really healthy?

Dom: Yeah, like you gave it to my parents the instructions were in Chinese like

my parents just told me to hand this over and I did.

Dom: Yeah, your mom makes a lot of leftovers

and that's like the mindset my family grew up with

cuz they want to bring it for lunch like to work the next day.

That's why we have a term for when there's like a little bit of food left and you gotta eat it clean

Jomm: Killings.
Dom: Yeah, kill it to the- *spec*.

Ehlboy: There's like the Chinese saying like

"every speck of rice and your bowl is like that's gonna be on your lover's face" or something

Ehlboy: Or your like husbands or your wife's face.

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