I Made These Comics To Compare Chinese Culture With Western Culture Through Everyday Life

My friends that come to my house and watch me cook is often surprised and how I use chopsticks in so many ways throughout the process. This image is missing the Chinese spoon though.

In french gastronomic restaurant only. I swear to God no one in France use all these cutlery. My mother's generation (she was born in 1957) used to receive all this stuff for wedding and it never went off the box. One fork, one knife, one spoon and basta. Occasionnaly some pike to eat snail or shell. this kind of cutlery is usually in silver so you can forget the dishwasher, which is probably why we do not use it :p

Chinese people also use scoop

Where i came from, we only use our right hand

This would have been a life saver for Julia Robert's character in 'Pretty Woman'. All that damn time learning about cutlery just to end up getting escargots!

I saw a kid in Shanghai wearing a tshirt that said "SUCK YA MUDDAS PUSSY" i was dying

Maybe you should get a person to tatto it that ACTUALLY knows Chinese?

There's a good blog about this sort of thing. http://hanzismatter.blogspot.ca/ People send him their tattoos to see if it's accurate or not. There's a whole made up "cipher" of various (sometimes nonexistent) characters-to-latin-alphabet made up for dishonest tattooers trying to make a buck off of ignorant tourists who think they can get their names in "Chinese characters".

Oh My Gosh... I am the chicken soup tattoo girl! I got a Chinese tattoo when I was 16 by what I can only say is not the most credible artist. He assured me that it meant wicked when it actually meant chicken soup! I have pics to prove it! Had it covered last year after walking around with that c**p for the last decade!

Maybe we should only allow native chinese and japanese to make such tattoos, westerners just mess it up, who wants "chicken soup" tattooed on them.

Just want to note that contrary to what a lot of westerns think, Asians' inclination towards pale skin is not because they want to emulate Caucasian skin tones. Pale skin has been a sought-after trait long before we even knew other races existed. The same thing goes for large eyes and small faces.

Damn I would be SEXY in China

This could partly explain the difference in wrinkle-rate.

Well, it turns out that staying out of the sun is a good idea!

Only one race, the human race. All idiots.

I CAN'T. :D :D :D

I remember seeing a similar sort of comic, but it was pointing out that a lot of East Asians look young for a long time, but then get really old looking SUDDENLY. I must say, while there are a lot of East Asians I have seen who age really well, it's definitely not as consistent as the stereotype, in my experience.

Not til 70. Then they shrink six inches.

Asian women look 20 until they’re 40. By then thy look 50

They never seem to age but when the reach a sudden age, they age very quickly! Usually takes until they are 90 tho *L*

This version of the 'West' is very limited. Where I come from it would be 'olive oil x vinegar'.

same here in the philippines lol...

Oh i have to say that it depends on different regions in China. North Chinese like vinegar while sugar is more common on the south. China is a large country right? Anyway, in my hometown, a inland province on south China, vinegar is not common but soy sauce and salt are actually best friends.

Oh I MUCH prefer soy and vinegar!

cantonese restaurants tend have soy, sriracha type hot sauce, chili oil, hoisin. Vinegar must be more of a north thing

I'm with the Brit. I need my alone time to think and just be! I shared a bedroom with my sister; that was enough to last a lifetime. And I love my sister! :)

I tried dormitories in 2 countries. In Slovakia I shared the room with other 2 girls for almost 5 years. We had our own bathroom with toilet, it was big enough and also the room was spacious with thick walls and the best views from the 8th floor (60 euro per month). Some dorms have many students in the room and bathroom per floor. I thought I was lucky to get that dorm and the highest floor. In Slovenia we were for a month and I shared the room with 1 girl. Room was very tiny, it looked more like just for sleeping, bathroom was shared with floor and walls very thin. Thanks God, it was just a month, even though Slovenia is a nice place to visit :)

I never even lived in a dorm when I was at uni, I always had my own appartment :P But we have more space in Finland

You are really clever! I love all of your comics - nice work - I'd really like to use some for talking about with students

That's true. When I lived in a dorm I had a single room (Canada), but younger students often had to share a room with another student.