(And I never knew that not wearing shoes in the home was a Chinese thing? I mean my Chinese family doesn't but I thought Americans didn't either?)

Also, I loved how Evan switched into Cantonese for completely no reason toward the end. 有冇搞錯 is critical to the Cantonese dialect.

Chicken feet is good! There's actually not much to eat off it since it's mostly bones and you're really just eating the oily skin. But I'm Cantonese, so I suppose I'm biased.

Yeah, I was wondering if that second layer of insult was intentional…

Yeah to be honest, casual racism is more pronounced in Europe. Sometimes it's racism, and sometimes it's just that they care a lot more about your country of origin. When I was studying abroad in Paris, I had several friends over for dinner and my host parents (who were admittedly old) would always introduce my…

I actually sort of wondered whether most Taiwanese-Americans were so comfortable referring to themselves and their culture as Chinese, as the people on this show seem to be. I live in Taiwan now (I'm not Taiwanese myself) and most people, especially the younger ones, wouldn't describe themselves or their culture as…

Haha that's what I thought too, as an Asian. Also I don't think most Chinese/Taiwanese people are capable of making xiaolongbao at home…

Also, a very subtle dig at Mindy Kaling's lack of geographical knowledge: "an ocean away in New York City…"

Ermm…regarding Peter deleting that e-mail

you're not the only one

How many flights did Danny miss in that episode? I guess he does have a lot of miles.

The O.C. definitely. Even S1 could have been better had the creators not been working toward S2.