 What are some super Asian habits that you picked up from your parents that you might carry on for the rest of your life? Hey, don't throw away that bag. It's a good bag, okay? Maybe keep the bag, store it the bag, maybe even hoard the bag. A whole house of bags, mom? Uh, we gotta talk about this viral Reddit thread. These are always fun. Of course, the title was What Super Asian Habits Have You Picked Up From Your Parents? I think a lot of people realize that they subconsciously, in an automated sense, just repeat some of the immigrant behaviors that were taught by their parents. Some people liked them. Some people were trying to get away from them, but regardless, Andrew, they were doing them. Yeah, so we gotta talk about this list. We'll talk about which ones that we also carry on. And maybe some that you should probably leave behind. I don't know if you live in the modern world, but anyways, guys, please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the Hot Pop Boys. But David, one super Asian habit that I will carry on for the rest of my life is eating Chinese chili oil. That's why we got small Chinese Italian chili oil you can order right now. Orders are going to be shipping out in early November. Thank you to everyone who's ordered. We're very excited. Thank you for your patience. But yeah, check it out if you haven't. I'm telling you guys from Sichuan to Sicily. I mean, here's my quick thoughts. Your parents are your initial programmer. Like if you are a robot or some sort of console, whoever designed you first are your parents, right? Obviously, as you get older, you become an adult. You decide what you want to keep. You decide what you want to leave behind. But some things that you haven't put a lot of thought into, they are subconscious. They're going to perpetuate. I know for myself, it was a journey to learn not to hoard stuff. You know, you think, you know, I don't know. Like maybe there'll be some use for this in the future. But the truth is 95 out of 100 times, you just got to get rid of it. Whether you're selling it, giving it away, repurposing it, giving it to somebody else who can get more usage rate out of it. You got to clean up your crib, right? If you don't use something for two years, you're probably not going to use it again. That's just my whole, that's my whole thing. Other things that I feel like I definitely got from a specific type of immigrant upbringing. Everybody's Asian immigrant upbringing is different. It's not fully caring about birthdays or holidays that much. I'm not saying I don't care. I probably care about what half of what a normal person cares. Yeah, it's not a big celebration for not using the dishwasher. Do you use the dishwasher? I think we're starting to use it more, but no, I do generally don't. I think the idea that you have to prep things before they go into the dishwasher is also a little bit, but I did hear from a water. You should stand point that sometimes using the dishwasher actually saves you water rather than having the water running. You do it by hand, right? Because they heat the water and they recycle it through the system, right? Yeah. Um, did you know that mostly Asian shower at night? That's more of an Asian habit. I guess a lot of Western people wait till the morning to shower. I can't imagine going to sleep dirty. I think you're going to be cleaner, but you're going to have bed head. Um, putting water in the hand soap container when it's about half depleted. Still going to do this because that soap is pretty concentrated, man. Sometimes it's too much soap. And, uh, I would say the last thing is, man, and this, I promise myself, I'm not going to do it anymore. You probably do it too, Andrew. It's falling not victim because sometimes it is a good deal, but just to like coupons because I don't even want to shout them out because I ended up not being happy with the service. But it's like, man, I found this great coupon for one of those food delivery service items and then had to cancel the subscription, but you got to email them and not everything that gives you a coupon is worth buying. Anyways, let's get into the list. David, this was the most upvoted item on the list. Somebody said, man, I fear you on plastic bag hoarding, man. The plastic Ziploc bag love is real. In fact, there's so many memes about Asian parents storing or like hoarding Ziploc bags or I'm sorry, Ziploc or plastic bags that there's even memes saying there's two different types of Asian families. There's the mom that folds them into triangles and the one that just obviously shoves the smaller bags crumpled up. I can't imagine spending the time to fold the plastic bags. No, dude, and but I will tell you this, man, there is something about feeling a high quality plastic bag that doesn't make you want to throw it away. You are like, I got to use this bag. Like, look, the zip, it lines up perfectly. It's like airtight and it's very thick and strong. I have to use it. You're saying it's like patting the watermelon, the plastic bag quality judgment. I mean, you could make a environmental argument for it too. But anyway, somebody said the near inability to throw out anything until it's completely unusable. I can get 15 years out of a t-shirt or sweatshirts that are two decades old. Those t-shirts become very, very soft. I get it. But yes, they're at some point like if you move out on your own and you're living like a modern life for you to wear a tattered t-shirt from 20 years ago, unless it's nostalgic, it's kind of crazy. And I think that that's why there was that whole viral blog like a couple years ago called Accidental Chinese Hipster, where people were looking like they were in the archive or vintage fashion, but they were just wearing stuff from 30 years ago. Yeah. What about hoarding Kiko Monsoy sauce packs or other sauce packs from variety of venues? All right, let's be honest, everybody out there, leave a comment because I know we've all done this on different levels. Some people hoard a lot. Some people hoard a little. I've kept some, but I realized over time that I don't use them, David, because we have our own sauces. I buy my own sauce. So why would I want to use kind of that overly sodium, super salty, cheap soy sauce from the packet? What you're saying, it's never going to be high quality in the packet. Dude, do you ever bust out the McDonald's sweet and sour sauce again on any other dish? Some people might, but I recommend people... I don't use the sauces. If you're watching this right now, clean out your sauce packet drawer. Some of something's expired. Somebody said furniture along the walls. Somebody said, oh wait, I thought only rich people don't do this. Apparently, this is like a big thing on the internet right now. Judging your class by whether or not you put furniture along the walls because I guess due to Western design aesthetic philosophies, that's considered a faux pas, especially for rich people. They got everything floating in the room. So if you're wealthy, your couch will be in the middle of the room because the couch is the sole of the room. Like it's like the heart of the room, right? And it's probably an expensive couch that looks like a croissant. Or some people say like, if your bed is against the wall, then you're not as rich as someone who's able to put their bed in the middle of their room. Right, but they were saying that even though my parents have a big suburban house and came up in life, they're still putting furniture on the walls. You can't tell Asian parents to not to put the furniture on the walls. I mean, I don't know. It kind of makes sense too. Somebody said, none of them. I go out of my way to be unlike my parents as much as possible. Laughing my ass off. Yo, man, this person definitely had a very uncool childhood. Possibly parents that, you know, didn't fully figure out America in the way that he wanted. I don't think there's anything wrong with him reject them, rejecting the lifestyle that they brought up in, but just know why you are. I think let go of the resentment. But if some sort of like underlying, I guess, rejection of your childhood motivates you to like run your life a certain way and you like how you run your life with all those details by all means. I mean, let's be honest, not all parents are the same. So some parents had very lovable, warm, kind of quirky, foby parents and then some parents had some kids had a really unbearable, uncomfortable, terrible parents. So it happens. But obviously, you know, on Asian parents stories on Reddit, you're going to see more of the latter. Somebody said taking extra napkins from everywhere I go. Obviously, it depends on what tier of napkins it is. I'm going to take more and possibly even having a toilet paper roll dispenser that I put in the cup holder in my car. All right. So keeping your napkins in the car, taking extra napkins here, David, since I live in the city and I don't have a car. I don't do this as much because I don't have a glove compartment to put my napkins in. But I will tell you this department. You got a scooter compartment. I will tell you this when I feel a really thick napkin at like a certain dining restaurant equinox. I am like when you know one of those napkins that feels like a towel or that it's almost reusable, I am tempted to take more. But it's all because I'm like, it got to be used. I was like, I can use this. You got to rank anything like you rank toilet paper. Everybody knows there's low, middle, high. There's low, middle, high napkins. There's low, middle, high tier of disposable bags. You know, those those one ply little napkins that you get at like the takeout spot that like crumple in water. Like you put one drop of water and just like soaks everything. It doesn't even absorb anything on your mouth. Don't even bother. Don't don't bother. Somebody says I eat my salad with chopsticks and I pack my own meals when I get on the airplane. Somebody said, yep, chopsticks are 100% easier to watch and it's just my preferred way to eat salad. Yeah, I think eating salad with chopsticks, not wrong. If you have chopsticks on you to do that, I will say this though after eating chips and salad with chopsticks before I do it out of convenience, but I don't do it because I think that the chopsticks is the best utensil for salad. Let's be honest. Actually, the fork is because you can stab the salad and get multiple pieces of salad on a fork. It depends what type of vegetable. If you're doing something like lettuce, but if it's butter lettuce or arugula, absolutely you can eat it with a chop arugula. Yes, because arugula is in this shape of like a noodle. It's hard to stab the arugula. Yes, spinach, arugula, things that are thin that can stack within a chopstick grip. Yes, but if it's romaine or anything bulky, no. I don't even like mixed greens. Somebody said asking my friends and my significant other guess how much basically if it's not on sale, I don't buy it and I get dopamine from getting a really good deal on something. Yeah, yeah, I feel like you do this a lot. You're like, yo, guess how much I got this? Guess how much I got this Uber E to order for? Guess how much I got this thing? Guess how much I got this new Best Buy gadget for? Yeah, sometimes when the coupon stack is fire. Yeah, somebody said using food as a substitute for authentic connection and relationships have you eaten yet and a plate of cut fruit is all you need for every emotional situation. Getting food instead of saying I'm sorry. Listen guys, I'm not saying that this is not a well documented Asian parent trope, but don't do it. I don't do it guys. The butt gotta stop with us. We got to become more emotionally mature and you know, the old ways, the Eastern ways, especially the old Eastern ways, those are those ways. We got to be with the new ways. I don't agree that it's a substitute for actually having a talk and apologizing. I think it's an in-between that if you cannot communicate then you do this, but this is not a full apology at all and this does not count as emotional like emotional connection. But yes, the plate of fruit is an olive branch. Yeah, I think it helps something. Somebody's saying not super Asian, but I eat in a very Filipino way, putting one leg up on the chair next to me and having the two to one rice to food ratio using a spork and food spoon to eat most things. You know, obviously we're talking about the park and the spoon and this, this is a very Pilipino method right here. But David, Pilipinos, they eat the longanisa and they need the pork and spoon. Right. But yeah, some of these are, it's interesting. Some people were saying that these are more like almost region specific. It's not necessary. Some of these are like across Asia and then some of these are more regional. So it's very interesting. Of course, going back to using the dishwasher as a drying rack. A lot of people are just talking about saying they don't even have their dishwasher connected to the water. No, Dave, I got a question as we get into these. Do you think it's class specific? Like do you think like Asian families who come over as immigrants but are like, I guess have more money. Do you think they still also do some of these things or this is more of like an immigrant level? Like middle class, lower middle class activity? I would say more of the latter. Typically, the way I view it varies. It varies because one parent could be from money. One parent could be new money. One's old money. They're going to have different behaviors because one's going to be more aristocratic and colonial. So I mean, it could vary a lot. It's a good point. Somebody said going to restaurants, looking at a dish and saying, I can make this at home cheaper or asking my friends if they're cold and need to grab a jacket. Yeah. Mom always used to do that, right? To analyze dishes. But at the same time, is that logical? Because obviously everybody knows a restaurant is off in the third place. There's a lot of insurance and labor costs and overhead and rent and you know what I mean? It's almost more like a vibe because you ain't never going to get for the most part generally like the value on the food. I think a thought does come into my mind sometimes. Like if I eat something super mid at a restaurant that is simple. It's a simple dish. I do think could I have made this at home better? Because sometimes you can do it at home better. That doesn't mean you shouldn't go to restaurants because restaurants are a restaurant for a reason, right? You go out for a reason. But yeah, sometimes I would say that thought crosses my mind. Taking your shoes off as soon as you get in the home and making all your guests take their shoes off too. Somebody said I literally ain't crazy on my friend because she was wearing shoes in my apartment when I had people over. I would say this honestly if another Asian violates another Asian and everybody else took their shoes off. I'd be like, bro, what were you thinking? But yeah, of course, if it's a non Asian person is different, I understand their their culture is fundamentally Asian Asians should be more considerate of that. But non Asians. I kind of give them a little leeway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody was saying that these are older Asian expressions such as going on or or like like, you know, kind of like definitely our kuma shout out to kuma. No, I would say dad. I would say dad does this sometime. I don't mom doesn't but dad does that. Like it's a very like. Yeah. Yeah. I would say if you're if they're Asian 55 and up, they probably do it. My sewing stuff goes in a cookie tin. This got to be something that's like nostalgic. But David, what happens when people stop eating these little Danish cookies? Because I don't buy them anymore cookies. Yeah. Am I are we am I when I grew up and I have a family am I really going to be eating this Danish tin? So that somebody needs to put this on a legacy or tea or something because this is like so such a defining experience. It is. Somebody says being a workaholic being obsessed with having an ultra clean house. I think being a workaholic. Let me modify that one being a workaholic and just feeling like that's an obligation to be a workaholic like just being just being like it is my work. It is. I just work and there's no question. There's no question about this. Yeah. But and I would say maybe even just exchanging time for money. But I think that the second generation or third generation Asian-Americans we need to get to the point where we're getting like more residual, you know, asset passive asset growth and things like that. That's a whole another level of thinking that we probably got to go learn on our own unless you have a certain type of parent. Somebody says saving leftovers at a restaurant shocking how few people outside of Asian households do this. Is this true? I don't know. Do other people not get that one is puzzling. I didn't know that so many people thought that other races didn't take their food back. I do think that yes, a lot of Americans are more wasteful but they still have like takeout boxes for a reason. But I think Asians, it's very natural for Asians to take home everything. I'll say this. The amount of food that Asians will take back is the like the littlest like if it's like three pieces. Asians like, yeah, I saved that. Yeah. Yeah. Can you pack it up for me? Can you pack it up for me? And then and then they're looking at like four pieces of like Mapo tofu and it's like. No. What do you don't even pack this shit up? Somebody says not throwing away unused takeout utensils like plastic spoons and forks, especially chopsticks. Obviously there's a bunch of somebody said, yo, this post just embarrassed me. I got to go clean out my drawer right now. All right. The flimsy stuff. The question is guys, again, you can use it. You can keep it. I think that's fine because it's unused. Are you going to actually use it or are those disposable utensils going to sit in your drawer for years? Is the question comes with a little salt and pepper packet to make sure you use them. Somebody says reaching to the back of the grocery store column when getting an item to get a more, you know, like a fresher item. A lot of people do that. Yeah. Somebody said covering the remote controls with a silicone cover or clear plastic bag. Gotta stop doing this guy. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Man, dude, dudes, if you are a modern man, don't do this one. All right. I'll say this. The silicone cover is OD because it has to be custom fit for that remote, but it does give more grip though. Sometimes the remotes could be a little slippery, but listen guys, the remotes nowadays, they don't have that like cheap print on button that like wears off anymore. It's all built in. How greasy are your fingertips? Come on. Somebody says tearing paper towels only half or using the corner when I just need to wipe out my mouth or a little spill. And somebody said no, no, no, you guys got to get on the choose your own side ones because there's paper towels now that like they break one sheet. No, they're perforated so that you can tear off a square. I think it's better. Somebody said house slippers. In fact, I even have toilet slippers in Japan. The toilet slippers are often plastic. The house slippers are often more some sort of like softer polyester cotton material outside slippers. I'm not going to have bathroom slippers. There's a lot of slippers guys. It depends what level of slipper life you guys are about. I'd say out of 0123 we definitely 1.5 1.5 sounds good to me, but not too many may sometimes it could be too many slippers. Someone's saying I'm not going to lie. I'm judgmental of people's social status and organizational skills. You know, I don't know if that's Asian being very honest. I keep rubber bands from produce and put it on my kitchen cabinet going to Costco all the time. Okay. Asians statistically love cost more than anybody middle-class and upper middle-class Asian women are like the number one Costco demographic walking while holding my hands behind my back. That's crazy. I wouldn't know wrong with it. It's nostalgic is cool, but I don't want to walk. No, no, no. I think it kind of I think it has to do with kind of like your chi and like being a kind of like your diaphragm, right? But when I will say this, if you put your hands behind your back, it does like pull your shoulders back so I can maybe help you walk up a little bit straighter. You know, like this versus like if you have your hands forward, right? There could be some spinal benefit. Somebody was saying that I have paranoia that tap waters full of pathogens that will kill me and a lot of people are talking about how their relatives buy these like Japanese water filtration devices underneath the sink sniff kissing sniff kissing is something that is particularly prevalent in Thailand and Vietnam. I had no idea about this to be honest. So this is cool. Somebody saying when traveling in non-Asian countries, I have to find some Asian food or it's game over for me. I would say that this is a pretty Asian. I think it's just about when you're traveling. Sometimes you see all this new stuff, but you still want to be in your comfort zone and Asian restaurants or your specific ethnicities restaurant is always going to be a comfort zone. Yeah, we did this TV show in the south. We're in Charleston Charleston, South Carolina. You cannot find a you might not see an Asian all day long. So at night, we go to the Thai own sushi restaurant. Somebody said drinking hot water. I'm becoming an old Asian woman. It's true when you are out of really American diner and you just ask for flat hot water. People sometimes are like, what would you say, honey? I don't really. Would you correct? No, nothing in it. I did do that in front of some white friends back in high school and back then they question it. But I think nowadays more people do it. America is more ethnic. Yeah, I think more people have seen it. It's not as weird, but it was weird 10 years ago to ask her at the restaurant. Somebody was saying apparently I do a heavy nod or half bow to acknowledge people. So it's almost like from Asia, you know, there's a variety of bows Andrew and Thailand. The bow was like this. Everybody knows Japan is very famous for more of a full waist bow. But this guy saying I found an American one where, you know, it's kind of in the middle. We're about pleasure. I knew when I'm in when I walk in Asian spots that are like fobby and like I see like a older Asian woman approached me, whether it's no matter the type of Asian. I do. I can't help but crumple myself a little me like, hey, yeah, like a quarter bow, a half bow or a tiny little like shrug bow. Right, right, right. I mean, it makes sense. I don't know. I don't think they're going to require it, but it does feel weird to like stand up tall and be like greeting them. You know what I mean? Like it's just our cultural thing from this and that. Um, ultimately how much should people keep people are like picking and choosing? You know, this list was so long. If you do all these things and you're pretty much like an old Asian parent, but I mean, you know, I think some of them are very sensible and make sense and logical. And I think that's fine. Keep doing them. I think there's other ones that are just kind of like, you know, man, that's just not cool anymore. And I'm dropping the things that I just don't think are cool. Having sauce packets that I don't use sitting at my fridge, not cool. I'll keep the 10 cent target mesh bags, but I'm throwing away the plastic ones 97 out of 100 times. I have never needed the plastic bags. David, well, the world is moving away from plastic. So good for you. Yeah, that's fair. Um, sometimes I rewash very strong and sturdy plastic disposable forks though, because some of them are pretty strong and could be rewashed. I think one way that people could do it is like have a value minded mindset or a frugal mindset, but still do what you want. Like, like I just always give the old AirPods to my sister because even though she could go get the new one, she doesn't like to get the new ones. Do you know what I'm saying? She doesn't like to spend the money. So I'm, I just give her my old AirPods and I'll get the new AirPods. So it's like somebody in my family is still getting the usage rate out of it. It's not like sitting there losing his asset value. Right. It's also like giving gift. At least you turn something that you would either sell for a little bit of money or throw away and you gift it, but I'm not going to sit there and feel bad and understand like my parents would not upgrade the iPhone every year or the gadgets every year. I would do that because it's just like a weird gratuitous habit that I like to have, but it's like, I'm still trying to find a middle point. So yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that consolidating your back, having a limit to things of what you hoard, I think slight hoarding is understandable. Have a limit, have a limit to the bags. Like if you got 50 bags, you're not using them enough and you're never going to need 50 bags at once. If you got 10 bags, easy 15 bags, I get it 50. No. Anyway guys, let us know what you think in the comment section below. How much do you want to keep? How much do you want to leave behind? What's something that you stand by? For sure. Shoes off in the house. That's, that's for life though. That got to be forever. My grandkids got to take their shoes off. You'll want to hoard Sma La Sauce if you ever get a chance to try it. SmaLaSauce.com guys. Get it right now. Shipping very soon. Until next time with a hot pot boys. Let us know in the comment section. We out. Peace.