The Quote itself shows that she fins similar things in China to those in America as she can identify the provided condiments. She is seeing similar things at this point thus she start to accept all the things that represent Chinese culture. Not to mention when Lili, Jing Mei’s young cousin poses for a picture, Jing Mei describes her pose: “…in the manner of a fashion model…”(186 Tan), indicating that her Chinese family is more Americans than she expects making her Chinese family isn’t actually different from her. She also discover more about her Chinese family when her father to spare a time to tell a story about her mother’s (Suyuan Woo) journey from China to America. She hears the story of her mother during the invasion. She acknowledges
