Hope you enjoyed this story! This was one part of my comedy special which you can watch here:

The "you've gotten fat / here, eat more" is a unifying front for grandparents in particular that overrides all cultural difference.

Anyone else notice Jenny is dressed as a minion

As a 老外 who speaks *really mediocre* Mandarin, I have witnessed first hand the "reverse discrimination" that people of Chinese ancestry suffer in China when they do not speak the language with native fluency. I get absurd (and unjustifable) amounts of praise simply by being able to ask the way to a train station, whereas those with Chinese background get lambasted if they cannot recite Tang dynasty poetry flawlessly.

A head nod from dad when you get an A+ is the closest we can feel love from dad.

Yep when I went to China I got pwned big time. I understood like 30% of what was being said, and the menus weren't so simple. Instead of straightforward names like "grilled chicken meat with rice", it was stuff like "bamboo silk twice grilled dragon phoenix pearl treasure strips". I just looked for the familiar words 鸡 or 牛 and ordered those dishes.

I knew a girl who emigrated from china when she was 9. To fargo, north dakota.

I know that feel.

That Cuntonese and that lady's laugh really got me...

I always say "Du ne lo mo!" to the phone scammers.

she got the minion fit

i have also "lost" a language. it is comforting to hear that others have had the same experience :)

what’s shocking is that her cantonese pronunciation is better than her mandarin pronunciation.

I like your style of comedy. It's unique the way you are telling the story with the fun pictures.

Did I hear a metal pipe drop at 0:44?!

I'm German and studied Chinese at uni. Had quite a few classmates, whose parents, or one of them were Mandarin (sometimes Cantonese) speakers. I was so surprised they didn't really have much of an advantage apart from the pronunciation. Some of them said they even refused to learn any Chinese when they were children and came to regret that. So I guess it's totally normal, but must be so confusing to grow up with different cultures.