Jing rue?

You know you live in Thailand when you:

-Take off your shoes before entering your apartment.

-Eat with a spoon and fork even when eating in your own home.

-Start ending questions with "chai mai" or "mai".

-Start agreeing by saying "ok krap" or "chai lao".

-Answer yes or no questions with just "krap".

-Start speaking English with tones.

-Put dried chili, chili paste, or chili sauce on everything.

-Smile and bow to everyone you see.

-Get hungry at 11:40pm and eat noodles with chilis.

-Even have noodles and chilis in your fridge in the first place.

-Say "oui!" when you're surprised.

-You're idea of a taxi is the back of a pickup truck (songtaew).

-Stand up before movies to honor the King.

-Consider food the ultimate gift.

-Speak broken English even to other English speakers.

-Show up 15 minutes late and you're still considered early.

-See at least 10 men dressed as women per day in town and don't even think twice about it.

-Consider 2 dollars for a meal insanely expensive.

-Seeing a family of four and their dog all piled on a motorbike doesn’t surprise you.

-Eat rice with every meal.

-Everyone you know owns at least one yellow shirt.

-3 dollars/night is a reasonable price for a 2 bed 1 bath room.


And the list goes on...