You Know Your an Egg When

White on the outside, yellow on the inside. The "Egg", a.k.a. the Asiaphile suffers from a racial identity problem. They are frequently seen wandering around Chinatown, or eating a bowl of Pho, and will be first in line at the Jackie Chan opening. How do you know you are an Egg? See if the statements below describe you.

You were indignant when the waiter handed you a fork in an Asian restaurant.

Your cell phone has Chinese characters on it
You drink loose leaf Jasmine tea.
In most the pictures you have of yourself you are the only white boy, and you didn't notice it at the time
You slurp your noodles
Chicken feet and pig blood cakes = good eatin'
Red bean ice cream is a real treat

PEARL MILK TEA!!!!

You are disappointed when they dubbed Crouching Tiger hidden dragon instead of leaving it in Chinese.
you can tell when the dialogue jumps back and forth between Mandarin and Cantonese.
you can tell which actors are from Taiwan by their accents.

you know how bad Chris Tucker's Chinese is.

You have those little Chinese health balls on your desk
You give a slight bow when you meet people.
You are charged with drunk driving because you said the entire be pe me fe alphabet by mistake.
You pass out lucky money in red envelopes on New Years
You don't think January 1st is New Years
You think white people smell funny.

You say "Lucy Liu and those other Angels"

You would rather just walk.
you have met Zhanghuimei, but you can't quite put a face to Gloria Estephan
All this open space gives you the heebie jeebies
You know the ins and outs of public transportation, and you can't drive
Most of your girl/boyfriends have been Asian.

Other Foodgroups

Egg: White on outside, yellow on inside.
Banana: Yellow on outside, white on inside.
Oreo: Black on outside, white on inside.

You can't quite connect with 'regular' white people

You know Taiwan politics better than the American politics.
or even if you don't think "cross straights relations" is a conversation about Transvestites and Heterosexuals.
You get antsy when there aren't enough Asians around.
You have to explain to your work colleauges that you actually LIKE to drink cold coffee.
You visit a pier in Monterey and look down and get hungry from seeing the floating seaweed.
When your girlfriend is talking to you, you respond with "HMMMM" or "UHH-HHUUUUH" and believe that those are intelligible answers.
You regard pointing feet at others as unspeakably rude.
You just don't get "Americans"
You read this page and didn't realize it was a joke.
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