1. Your weekend breakfast jumps between bacon and egg rolls...
2. ...and the irresistible combination of Spam, egg, and rice.
3. You don't really know when it's appropriate to use your hands or cutlery.
4. You have an array of Datu Puti vinegar in your cupboards...
5. ...which are also stocked with a heap of sweet chilli sauce for lumpia.
6. Takeout, especially KFC, is accompanied by rice.
7. And parties mean big aluminium trays of Filo dishes next to the sausage sizzles.
8. If one of your parents are Aussie, they always have trouble pronouncing traditional dishes.
9. And your Filipino parent always asks whether you want "filo food" or "white food".
10. A lot of their texts are written in Taglish.
11. In the summer you buy bags of ice from the servo for Halo-Halo, not for a cool drink.
12. You're forced to eat pancit on your birthday for good luck.
13. And your Filo parent despises when you use the word forced and food in the same sentence.
14. One of your biggest struggles is deciding whether you want a debut for your 18th or a big-bash for your 21st.
15. You confuse yourself alternating between "aunty" and "tita" all the time.
16. And you have a slew of titas and titos who aren't actually related to you in any way.
17. Your cousins really vary on the name scale from Barry to Bong Bong.
18. Your Filo parent calls you 'nak so much, you have a sneaking suspicion they doesn't even know your real name.
19. You spend the year collecting bulk grocery products for the balikbayan box.
20. Or your parents hoard all the clothes you grew out of for it.
21. Your Filipino parent's favourite medical cure is a tub of Vicks or the home brand variant.
23. Your Filo parent shows strange devotion to any Filipino on The X-Factor or The Voice.
24. And at parent-teacher interviews, they would somehow find the only other Filipino in the room.
25. If you have Aussie family you need to give them different start times to your Filipino family.
26. All the family come round for a Pacquiao match...
27. ...or for the NRL Grand Final.
28. Where everyone eats off your set of Corelle plates.
29. And of course, everyone's tsinelas aka thongs are sprawled at the front door because "no shoes in the house".
