First Official Family Dinner
February 20, 2007 | Filed under Asian-ness, Family & Friends, Relationships/Men
P had to go through the most torturous experience of all tonight – the first official family dinner. My mother told me to bring him over for dinner…who am I to refuse? He’ll deny it, but he was stressed and nervous. It was almost disgustingly obvious.
But my parents are alright. They didn’t interrogate him…at all. They did do the typical Asian thing though, where you insist the guest take more food than is humanly possible to eat. On the whole, I think he had it easy…especially considering he told me that his parents will literally interrogate me nonstop the first time I have dinner with them.
Yikes.
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:O No dinner of doom?! Shame! I was looking forward to the insane amount of questions your parents would throw at P. And especially his answers!
Tracey on February 20, 2007 #
That IS pretty good. Tim and I haven’t had official dinner at my house yet, the language barrier is pretty intimidating (Tim only speaks English, my parents basically only Chinese). One day! And best of luck when it’s your turn! :o
Belinda on February 20, 2007 #
Oh, classic Asian style xD Our family loves feeding guests to the explosion point, too. :P I would have expected a grilling, though.
Sumaiya on February 21, 2007 #
I didn’t know things like “official dinners” existed outside of films…
Strange.
Doran on February 21, 2007 #
I feel sorry for any man that has to meet my father. Let me tell you about my father: he has a lot of muscle, does thai kickboxing four nights a week and went to Thailand to train so he could improve. So he is more than capable of kicking my prospective husband’s ass (including Jake, Adam or Marcus, unfortunately!).
So did he meet your parents standards? Did he get the royal seal of approval :P?
Oh, and I almost forgot – good luck with your interrogation. Now if they get out the lie detector (like in Meet The Parents) remember to be 100% honest!
Amber on February 21, 2007 #
Wow NO
Julie on February 21, 2007 #
Oops. Ignore the “Wow NO”
Wow NO questions at ALL? I wish my parents were like that…
My mom jokingly asked me to write down a profile of my boyfriend so they have less questions to ask him when they meet him.
Julie on February 21, 2007 #
LOL! I hate that. Well my parents did that to my first boyfriend but with my boyfriend now, there was nothing so official. He’s just always over eating whatever’s there :-P
Kat on February 21, 2007 #