Your parents never brush their teeth

Your mom walks around the house, talking to herself  :o

Mostly all of your siblings have 3 kids and usually not until their late 20's/early 30's

Your dad asks you to pull out his rotten teeth  :(

Your lips are always parted naturally

You have chubby cheeks

Your nose is really wide

If you're a guy, you have a moustache

Your mom always says that she is going to kick you/punch you in the face after you argue with her

Your parents like to shoo you away by saying, "bpai non" (go sleep)

Your mom managed to have her last child(ren) in her 40's  :-?

Every Lao song your parents listen to sounds exactly the same and they blast that shit  >:(

You have fish sauce in your kitchen and freak out when it's gone  :D

You also have rooster sauce in your kitchen and put that shit on everything

Your mom goes to han lao to buy food and Daily 3 lottery

Your parents ask you to check the Daily 3 numbers for them

You don't use the showerhead, you use the pot that is in the tub

You talk to your cat/dog in Lao and say that they speak Lao

Your mom has a Louis Vuitton handbags to try and impress other Laotians

You have pho almost every week

Your parents are old

You wear strings on your wrists for "good luck" or to ward off ghosts

You and your family claim that they have seen a ghost

Your parents claim they were Buddhist monks, but drink like there's no tomorrow at parties

Your dad goes fishing

You eat sticky rice

You have thip kow in the kitchen to hold the sticky rice

You have to pluck off the stems from the peppers so your mom can smash them

You say "close the light" and "open the light" instead of "turn on the light"/"turn off the light"

You say eat water instead of drink water

You have never said I love you to your parents

You have never seen your parents hug/kiss  :-*

Your parents used to chew the food for you when you were younger..ew

You have to dial the numbers on the phone for your parents

Your mom likes to say, "Oh my god!" and "Shut up!" in English

You have a lot of dogs and most of them are Chihuahuas

Your parents refuse to bury a dead pet, they throw it away in the trash instead because they are afraid their spirit will haunt you  :'(

You have beef with Hmong people

You squat when you use the toilet 

You hate when people call you Cambodian and they ask you "What's Lao? Where's that?" when you tell them what you are  ::)

You have a lot of nieces and nephews that are really young and really annoying

You are taller than your parents, especially your mom  8-)

Your mom gives you this black rock looking medicine that makes your pee smell just like it for days

Your parents room smells just like that medicine and other weird unknown substances

Your parents are obsessed with talking about money and say saam loy a lot (three hundred) or twenty dollars (sao don)

You don't use plural nouns when you talk -(i.e. wash the dish, instead of wash the dishes)

You say take them a shower or take them to sleep instead of give them a shower/put them to sleep

Your dad tells you to step on his back

Your siblings are gone all day at your other sibling's house

Your parents talk with their mouths full

Your mom chews beetle nut all day

Your dad cooks squirrel over the stove and it smells so bad  >:(

You always have MAMA noodles and Cup Noodles

You have single mattresses for relatives to sleep on

Your bowl of pho is bright red because of all of the rooster sauce and spices you added in  ;)

Your parents always have their Lao friends over at their house and they're as loud as can be  >:(

You put fish oil and MSG in your eggs

You go into the rice fields and get crawdads and sell them by the bucket full

You have a chicken coop in your backyard

Your parents have been in the U.S. for over 30 years and don't speak a lick of English. They understand it though! Especially all of the cuss words.

Have any more to add? Feel free to leave them below and let's get this thread going!  :)

I dont know if they are applicable for Laotians, but, some of them are very common in my hometown.  Very nice memory.

What realy irks me to this day is my uncles and aunts would always invite their friends or enemy friends to their home and they all would stay for the entire weekend gambling away for 2 straight days and nights without sleeping.  Then this gambling cycle continues on to the next weekend where they would be at other friend's place.  How can human function without sleeping for this span of time? Just saying..

Same here! It is life. When I was in Langbang Thailand, they just danced away Saturday and Sunday among friends houses. That is good for health.

You join them gamble or just watch and learn? ;D


Beef Cake wrote on 12^th Apr, 2014 at 7:38pm:

What realy irks me to this day is my uncles and aunts would always invite their friends or enemy friends to their home and they all would stay for the entire weekend gambling away for 2 straight days and nights without sleeping.  Then this gambling cycle continues on to the next weekend where they would be at other friend's place.  How can human function without sleeping for this span of time? Just saying..

I ran away as far as I could and never wanted to be associated with this Lao culture and activities.   :laugh3 :laugh3 :laugh3 :laugh3 :laugh3 :laugh3 :laugh3 :laugh3

LOL YESSS! They're such notorious gamblers.
Another thing I can add is
You know you're Laos if...

Your mom constantly asks you for money to go gambling  ::)

Lao people are notorious when it comes to gambling ;D