Being raised Asian is probably one of the most happy and scary childhood anyone could have.

The yelling, the feeding, the subtle affection, the enormous amounts of love. While your parents may have high standards, they want the best for you, loving and protecting you fiercely, giving up their own happiness for your sake. And while you love them unconditionally, there are some quirks you've grown up with.

Most of the time you don't even know these things are weird before other people tell you they are. Nevertheless, you'll always hold on to these traditions:

1. When you eat rice with every meal.

2. When you need a jacket for any weather under 70 degrees.

3. When your parents stuff you with food at every meal, then comment on how chubby you're getting.

4. When you would use hoarded hotel toiletries for weeks after a vacation.

5. When you didn't know things like dishwashers existed for convenience.

6. When you wake up hungry in the middle of the night, and your mom gets up to make you dumplings.

7. Durian, enough said.

8. And, for that matter, lychee, dragon fruit, rambutan, etc.

9. When you're asked if you're related to the five hundred other people with the same last name.

10. When you look back on your childhood and realize how lucky you were to grow up that way.