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. |
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 | Your cell phone has Chinese characters on it
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 | You drink loose leaf Jasmine tea.
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 | In most the pictures you have of yourself you are the only white boy, and you didn't notice it at the time
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 | You slurp your noodles
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 | Chicken feet and pig blood cakes = good eatin'
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 | Red bean ice cream is a real treat
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 | PEARL MILK TEA!!!!
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 | You are disappointed when they dubbed Crouching Tiger hidden dragon instead of leaving it in Chinese.
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 | you can tell when the dialogue jumps back and forth between Mandarin and Cantonese.
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 | you can tell which actors are from Taiwan by their accents.
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 |  | you know how bad Chris Tucker's Chinese is.
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 | You have those little Chinese health balls on your desk
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 | You give a slight bow when you meet people.
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 | You are charged with drunk driving because you said the entire be pe me fe alphabet by mistake.
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 | You pass out lucky money in red envelopes on New Years
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 | You don't think January 1st is New Years
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 | You think white people smell funny.
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 |  | You say "Lucy Liu and those other Angels"
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 | You would rather just walk.
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 | you have met Zhanghuimei, but you can't quite put a face to Gloria Estephan
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 | All this open space gives you the heebie jeebies
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 | You know the ins and outs of public transportation, and you can't drive
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 | Most of your girl/boyfriends have been Asian.
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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
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 | You know Taiwan politics better than the American politics.
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 | or even if you don't think "cross straights relations" is a conversation about Transvestites and Heterosexuals.
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 | You get antsy when there aren't enough Asians around.
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 | You have to explain to your work colleauges that you actually LIKE to
drink
cold coffee.
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 | You visit a pier in Monterey and look down and get hungry from seeing
the
floating seaweed.
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 | When your girlfriend is talking to you, you respond with "HMMMM" or
"UHH-HHUUUUH" and believe that those are intelligible answers.
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 | 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. | |