 Shoes, please. Yeah, it's like this weird like spidey tingly sense that you get where you just like I don't want to Mad cringy, dude. Tell me you're Asian without telling me you're Asian a two-part series Welcome everybody to the hot pop boys. David and Andrew here. David. We got a list for the people today Yeah, it was based off a reddit thread that was going crazy. So many people were contributing different things They felt like identified you as Asian without needing to tell somebody that you were Asian And I love these lists because it's just like a really great way to remember all the commonalities that we have Amongst being like eastern cultures, whether it's like a specific Asian or not, you know, because there are differences But I feel like a lot of these things kind of unite us. Yeah, I mean you could look at the score you get You know zero to eight low eight to 16 16 to 25 we came up with 50 points We broke it into two lists of 25. Let's get into number one All right, guys, if you guys are excited about that list Please hit that like button check out other episodes of hot pop boys and look out for part two coming soon All right, David number one number one you take off your shoes Anytime you are in a place of personal dwelling. So that includes air b&b's andrew and it even includes hotel rooms Yeah, man, I don't even care where I'm at even if I paid money to rent the room I cannot sit on a bed with my shoes on for more than like two seconds. It feels weird Oh, and you have to demand that your non-asian friends also take off their shoes I know some people are 50 50 about that because you know, you know, like, oh, should I apply my culture to them? No, no, no, no, no guys, that's like going to singapore and trying to break the laws there Don't do that when you come into my household Number it is tough though. It is tough to tell your friend. No, it's true It's true because because western people they have like a thing about feet that Asians don't have because Asians I guess like western people find feet more sexual Apparently which is goes with the only fans and the feet picks and everything like that Whereas Asians are just like Yo, just take your shoes off because they were outside. I'm not gonna lie. The last time we had a white person in our apartment They just walked straight in and we're just like laughing and talking and just being real nice And it was so hard for me to be like, oh, yo, um, can you uh, yeah, can you just Take off your shoes, please. Yeah, it's almost like this weird like spidey tingly sense that you get where you're just like I don't want to say cringey, dude Point number two. Andrew, you have to value minivans over monster suv's or at least crossover suv's like a crv mdx, you know, etc, etc Hey, man, I feel like it kind of goes along with asian culture because Asians they look at minivans are like Oh, it's just as effective, but it's not as aggressive as the suburban or the tahoe So i'm going for the minivan. Yeah, a lot of Asians do not get the escalade as their daily whip Um, I will say this andrew the only american brand that I see Asians heavily buy for their family is teslas And especially the model y obviously with the uh, you know seagull doors number three andrew You might be asian if you use the fingertip method before you cook rice Okay, first of all, you might be asian if you're cooking rice at home Okay, first of all and second of all man, I you know, we don't really cook in our house right now that often But if if we were to cook rice, I would still definitely use the fingertip method No measuring cups in this house. Oh point number four and we're staying on the topic of rice You have access to a modern rice cooker, but the older generation might prefer using an older style one I don't really get this one though I thought it made me laugh because Our parents, you know, we bought them. Uh, we're actually we got it for a brand deal We got a cuckoo and we got a zojirushi But sometimes I think that you know for them the the the 50 dollar one is just as good as the 250 dollar one You mean the joint with just like one button. It's just like cook rice. Boom. Not the one that goes Do you want your rice done in 30 minutes? They're like, you know, they say it in chinese and stuff like with the ai and the leds and the And the little twist top and the Well, I'll say this especially for the older older generation that can get a little too complicated No, it's true. It's true. Sometimes cooking rice. You just want to keep it simple, man Point number five andrew you always crave something soupy when hung over or just in general you crave soups and stews Um, yeah, so obviously in western culture, they do have soups and stews But I definitely don't hear american people Want those beef stews as bad as we would say yo, I need fuh. Oh my gosh I need like gamjatang or something You know like you know how like asians will just say that and then uh, or oh, I need kanji You know, yeah, it seems like european descent people are really removed from wanting goulash But it's funny because me I got exposed to like some eastern european like stews and soups recently and I was like Man, I don't know why people in america don't eat these more. I love goulash David, you know what white people say when they got a hangover? Dude, I need another beer I think that uh, uh Asian noodle soups and stews are probably almost like the thing that outpaces Other cultures by the largest margin, you know, and I'm talking about everything from the Himalayas They got tuk pa to everything lao isan. They got some crazy good noodle soups. Obviously up to east asia beef noodle soup gamjatangs or Sobas and things like that point number six andrew liking gross fermented foods that people in the west would be turned off by such as Dairy and jackfruit spam squid jerky dried crab and choveys natto from japan Some people even said the civet poof coffee the pork floss kupi mayo and baked items Yeah, man. I mean, I think those are all acquired tastes for the most part I do see dried jackfruit being sold at like target now from like american brands But everything else I would say like definitely looks still pretty foreign to people But I do I do see more and more westerners like opening up to that Maybe they've been to asian bakery or had you know, some asian food before and now durian Is reaching the mainstream as a mainstream weird thing. Yeah, I knew because uh, you know, shout out to our friend dr Rubenstein he started posting That himself eating jackfruit and durian and like sour sops and stuff like that and I always remember going Oh, so interesting But andrew it also says that you must not like USA grocery store cakes because they're too sweet and also obviously in asia They do not have a lot of shops andrew similar to sweet factory Where it's just like pure candy coated with like more candy Yeah, think of how weird that is to certain people where you're like, yeah Guys, you know, I don't like stuff that's too sweet You know, um, and I just like this weird funky fermented fruit And then and then and then everybody else is just got to be like Yeah, you're so asian man. Like this is just weird Oh, are that white like toffee with the nuts in it. That's like really not that sweet either. It's almost like uh Yeah, oh the one sweet thing that I do think asians like is Ferrero Rocher Which is not that sweet it's more hazelnut and also almond rocker Yeah, but usually, you know, especially if you're chinese and especially cantonese you'll like those little uh The the angel food cake the little cupcakes. All right. What about those italian uh, pantone cakes moving on number seven andrew Still on the topic of food You have to be surprised that fear factor had contestants pick between eating scorpions and thousand year old eggs Man, this was crazy when I first saw this clip because I remember people had to eat the pedon Like the thousand year old egg the one that we put in kanji all the time and they were like And I was just like dude, it's just literally like fermented with some salt Yo, one time on fear factor This lady had to eat one extra belute for another $10,000 and she would not do it Oh, but david if I was on that show I would be a millionaire No, I would eat belute too bad belute. It's it's good. I wouldn't say belute is great I wouldn't choose to eat it a bunch, but it's not that bad point number eight andrew You never really watched saturday morning cartoons because you either had mother language school or violin lessons Or potentially extra schoolwork. All right, dav. I gotta say I gotta admit something You know for me clearly I was not going to the language school on the weekends growing up. Oh, you did though Oh For a few times for like half a year. I barely remember it. Um, but yeah, obviously this is a huge part of growing up asian And particularly I would say especially for languages such as chinese or korean, uh, you know And a lot of the chinese schools were ran by timonese people Yeah, there's just a gigantic economy around like I guess learning the mother language. Um, I would say yeah It really depends on like how strong of tiger parents Your parents were and I always tell people that you know when it comes to having tiger parents andrew You're you can be zero one two three four or five You know your one neighbor like johnny who was like yelling at his mom He probably was at a zero But then your one kid at church who had to like do five hours a piano a day And or else he'd like get beat senselessly was probably like a five So let's be realistic in that scale our parents were what a 2.5 Yeah, man, we became youtubers Can't be that big of a tiger tiger parents Number nine andrew you would get disciplined when you were a child with some sort of item That went from any tear of pain from slight hurt to stinging pain So i'm talking about rolled up newspapers backscratchers bamboo brooms rulers slippers feather dusters clothing hangers wooden dowel rods you know For us growing up. I don't remember getting hit with anything, but I do remember dad yanking our ears Yeah, so we did get punished, but but maybe not with like a ruler or anything like that Yeah, I mean like I said, I always like to rank things on like zero one two three four five I would say in terms of like physical violence on the kids to you know get them to behave right We probably got like a 1.5 or a two But I definitely knew kids andrew especially if the parents came from more like military mandatory service type countries Sometimes those kids man if you messed up You might get Beat up. I feel bad for the man. I heard some really bad stories. I just hope it was all for the better I just hope that I just hope that they had got something to show for it Hey, but you know what the key is if you're asian even if you know somebody at your church or like a friend of a friend That's getting beat by their parents. Obviously. You don't tell anybody. That's just what it is That's the culture point number 10 andrew having some sort of shrine inside the house to the ancestors Something that is buddhist or daoist or something that you would burn Any type of thing that indicates some sort of like, you know photos of the grandparents with some sort of reverence? Yeah, I mean, uh, obviously there are a lot of like christian asians or catholic asians But I will say if you got the shrine the buddhist shrine that that's that's extra points right there And you know, uh, definitely knew a lot of friends growing up like that every restaurant we'd go into You know, you'd have like the oranges out with the candle and everything like that so You see it all the time it was levels it was levels But if you growing up in your asian even if you didn't have any house you saw it number 11 andrew You can speak more than one language because for the most part in america you can assume if somebody speaks more than one language They are second generation immigrant and their parents are probably either from asian Countries or latin countries. Yeah, well, I do think uh a lot of your ability to speak another language depends on your parents inability to speak english oftentimes growing up in america So if they don't speak english, you're definitely speaking your mother tongue often, right? So you're gonna be good at it Um, so yeah, I mean, obviously if your parents speak less english, you're probably less americanized and less westernized Yeah, I mean if you tell me that you speak english and like Language x and those are the only two languages you speak I'm gonna assume obviously with a high probability not a hundred percent probability that you belong to Group x point number 12 andrew your parents have a drawer filled with plastic bags Man, you know how I know this is true Is because in our apartment right now we have a drawer filled with plastic bags I feel like I definitely tried to like stop doing it as much as I got older though Because at some point you really only need like five or six bags. You don't need like 60 of them No, no, no, you're right. You're right. I try to limit it. You know, we have them under the sink But we still I still use the plastic bags here and there and plus, you know, you want to reuse plastic bags You don't want to just throw them away because you know, that's just more waste point number 13 andrew a b plus was unacceptable And an a minus was barely acceptable to your parents standard Yo, did anybody say that getting a b plus in english class was more acceptable than getting a b plus in math though I feel like for a lot of kids like maybe some parents might give them a little okay You got to be in english More because you're saying the parents are also not necessarily that good at english themselves I I feel like some parents did Um, I was trying to think about this one And it really depends on how tough your parents are with grades Um, I definitely know that up until a certain point, maybe like my junior or senior year My parents really really did not like to see bees come home Yo, I'll tell you this man If your parents are the ones that are out protesting the harvard admissions and like the elite high school admissions Uh, good luck. You better get straight a s number 14 andrew your parents and you possibly never use the dishwasher Yo, man, this is wild because actually you were writing this video and then you literally yell at me you go Andrew, do we have a dishwasher in this apartment? And I literally went I think we do And then I went to go open the dishwasher for like the second time since we moved in because I forgot we had it Yeah, I mean It just goes to show you that old habits. They die hard, you know and you know I looked into it using a dishwasher is considered more sanitary less bacteria because you're not using the same rag or the same sponge or whatever, but just uh Wait, so you tell me you telling me people are gonna Run around the house with their shoes on and jump on their bed with their shoes on But then use the dishwasher because it's more sanitary I actually think western people I actually think that western people use the dishwasher because it's easier But it just so happens that it is also more sanitary because the water's so hot true true true Point number 15 andrew washing your dog's feet and butt before they come back into the house Or hop into the bed or hop into a couch So this one is basically saying that I guess when asians have pets they they wipe them extra clean I mean, I knew I had my x would always wipe down all the feet But I thought that was pretty standard But you said our friend john actually wipes the butt down every time too Yeah, he wipes down the feet and the butt because obviously he does not want the dog tracking anything dirty Back into the house because he's about to cuddle with him again It goes back to wearing no shoes inside the house. I think so number 16 andrew There's Tupperware with all types of exotic herbs and spices deep in the pantry from anywhere from three to 15 years ago Dude, it's crazy, man If you were to look back into your pantry of your if your parents house And you'll see like bottles where like the label is like crusty and it's faded And then like all the sediment or like the the stuff has like Fall into the bottom whatever stuff is in the sauce and then you're just like what is this Oh, also nothing will be necessarily in the corresponding container It might be like a box full of cookies filled with like a box full of herbs or something like that Dude, my whole rule is now that I grow up, man If you haven't used it for like two years, you got to toss it, man If you haven't even looked at something you're not being with the old ways I'm not that traditional man Number 17 andrew you buy rice Anywhere in the volume of 15 to 50 pounds at a time Dude the memories of climbing up bags of rice at The chinese supermarket when we were younger So we're good memories, man But yeah, obviously nowadays obviously especially if you living in a small apartment in new york You don't have space for a 50 pound bag, but of course I remember that at home Yeah, I think it's pretty common I think at the end of the day because people ate so much rice growing up David, do you think that nowadays Families are eating like a little less rice or families are still probably eating a lot of rice But just like people our age maybe are eating less. I don't know Yeah, for sure. I mean if you want to talk about second generations where obviously we grew up And rice was pretty much available like all times of the day I mean, uh, I don't have rice ready to go right now because obviously just living a more western lifestyle And it's as it turns out andrew and room. I hate to break it to people white jasmine rice is not that healthy for you Number 18 andrew you enjoy fresh squeezed sugarcane juice all around asia from southeast asia to east asia People just love a good freshly squeezed sugarcane drink Yeah, I think this is a funny one because it kind of goes back to asians not liking things too sweet But sometimes that fresh sugarcane can be hella sweet, but it's a different type of sweet. It's not a processed sugar Okay, it is tastes more like rock sugar Asians do use rock sugar. I remember we always had rock sugar at home Asians do love rock sugar number 19 eating pasta Salad cheetos chips, but with chopsticks Yeah, I even saw man. There was like this commercial for this Japanese tool that was like There were like chip pinchers like specifically for chips Like designed for that and I thought that was pretty interesting But yeah, obviously I seen people do this, you know, I never did this But I made sure to eat chips with only two fingers I don't understand my friends and they were non-asian who would use all five fingers to grab chips Unless you're grabbing a bunch of popcorn. Why would you get all your fingers greasy just for one chip? Um, also andrew there is a famous photo of a chinese guy eating pizza with chopsticks Oh, also beating eggs with chopsticks when you're trying to beat eggs for a recipe So you don't need a whisk I still beat eggs with chopsticks to this day number 20 andrew the ability to do a deep asian squat Hell yeah, man mobility flexibility very much valued in the asian culture, man Actually in asia for a while. I mean, I think it's different now They did not always have like all western toilets You had to squat to use the restroom sometimes to go number two, but actually andrew physiologically That's a much more efficient way to poop Yeah, but uh, it's also just like uh, I guess more Throwback way. I don't know. It's old school. It's old school, but it is technically healthier for you though I used to do it in china once you did it once you've done it out and like One of those little outhouses over in like a remote part off the highway in china, man You just i'm down to squat anywhere now. Yeah, when you have a diarrhea though, it's a little crazy Yeah, yeah, also you gotta watch out for your pants, man by your ankles. You got to like sit backward. I don't know Sitting down is more comfortable. I've shit on my pants before Number 21 you do bowing of some type Obviously some asians bow a lot more than others Japanese and koreans probably do it every day Other people might do it during special special ceremonies or if they're meeting somebody really important Where they're seeing their grandparents or great grandparents, but there is bowing Yeah, obviously I think when it comes to like the when you're seeing like, you know a grave Obviously a lot of people still bow whether or not that is like part of your religion or not like that But I will say this man when I go to like certain Japanese and Korean spots I feel I bow a little bit like I'm not like a full bow, but just like a a little Yeah, I mean you want to adapt to this how they do things. Hi. No the classic. Hi Hi, thank you. Thank you. Like I literally do that still nowadays number 22 and or kids made fun of your lunch at school And uh, I do know some kids who went through this I personally never went through this because I would just eat the school lunch But I will say that there were certain times where like I just knew mom wasn't gonna pack like a normal field trip lunch Like if it was one of those field trips where they didn't provide lunch for you I just like asked for the lunchable because I was the one time where mom would buy it because she thought they were too expensive But otherwise it was just going to be Some not necessarily that appealing All right, man So there was this kid Gary Yao and he would always bring these fire Chinese lunches in a tin that where it was still hot, right? So other people might have thought that it was funky smelling, but I was like, oh, I want that So then I told mom I was like mom Gary's bringing all this food to lunch Mom can I can you like pack me some dumplings and then mom was like, okay All right, I'll try to do dumplings. Don't don't eat the school lunch. I'll pack your dumplings And then I opened up my dumpling pack one time and the soy sauce had spilled everywhere and spread everywhere And it was just a huge mess and then after that I was kind of like, oh man, mom, I don't know This isn't really work out Number 23 You became aware of asian medicines whether they were traditional or stuff like tiger balm before you were Even aware of american products Yeah, man tiger balm for everything if you were in a traditional household Obviously nowadays with modern medicine. I don't know. I mean, I think some parents are still going to tiger balm number one or number two At least yeah, and uh, ander salon past patches roto eye drops a lot of stuff from japan You know some parents and they still use just like the products from asia Like I know some uh people that are like still using like their their favorite shampoos and stuff are just like the ones from asia Andrew, I know it like at nelson's house all the shampoos and hand soaps are the ones from hong kong Yeah, the ones you can get at like watsons In hong kong except you just get them here. Andrew number 24. You know your asian if You told your other asian friends that your mom just wanted you to be happy in life And that your other asian friends were shocked when you said that dude I don't know if this is like a millennial asian thing. I don't know how different the parents are today You know that are raising like an 18 year old asian person But man Parents did not think about the word happy a lot because they just figured anything that made you happy was frivolous growing up All that fun frivolous hanging out with girls frivolous getting tattoos frivolous hanging out frivolous Oh, man getting tattoos to our at least our parents. That's worse than frivolous. Yeah, that's uh, that's a death note Yeah, you're just being a bad person in the society You're being even you're being a drug you turn into a drug lord if you get a tattoo in my house Yeah, um number 25 ear wax digger spoons Dude The classic man I still see this on the street sometimes like last time we went into china Maybe more in the neighborhood area where someone's turned over on a person's lap and like they're picking it out I think you can pay them to do it Yeah, no depending on how rule of area in I saw people get it done just like at mcdonald's dude I don't know if I would trust a stranger with my eardrum But I did hear because I was always wondering I was like, yo How easy is it to puncture a eardrum while doing that and I heard from some people They're like, it's not as easy as you think you'd have to really jam it in there So basically every time that you think it hurts It's not like that close to damaging you and I think that you need the spoons because a lot of asians Not all asians have like very dry brittle almost like uh Booger crumbs looking like ear wax. So it's like really hard to dig it out I actually believe andrew it's because a lot of asians. It's like their ear wax is kind of like dandruff So it's like kind of you got to pick it out Yeah, man You're asian probably also if uh, you've ever shaken your head and then heard your earwax rattle around in your head before That's definitely happened to me. Andrew. Did you know that this is actually what like western people's ear wax looks like? It looks more like Welted melted wax Yeah, I didn't really know why uh They call the ear wax when my stuff was flaky because wax is like gooey and stuff like that and flowy But yeah, I apparently it is soft and liquidy sometimes Aren't you guys that does it for list number one? That was one through 25 We got 25 through 50 coming up later. Let us know where you scored 816 or 25 low middle high I mean andrew that's just kind of like a fun trip down memory lane Yeah, it's also a fun thing to do to kind of Realize how Americanized or how westernized you are versus like the traditional I'm not saying it's bad to not be traditional because I would I wouldn't expect a lot of people like us to to be even 25 out of 25 maybe I am purposely not gonna continue some of these I don't think that it's like Purposely a hundred out of a hundred like the way you were raised was like absolutely the best method You don't know like you cherish it you cherish it because that's real to your upbringing But you don't have to continue it forever a respect it But you don't have to be defined by it right now All right, but anyways, let us know down below what your score is or what your kid's score is Maybe if you have kids, but anyways, it's fun. Let us know Um, yeah, hit that like button and check out other episodes of the hot pop boys Part two is coming up soon 26 to 50. Let's go