Backwards Compliment

I was tickled when a salesgirl guessed my age and guessed much younger than I am.  But Mama Lai was of a contrary belief:

"Maybe not such a good thing.  May mean you don't look sophisticated enough."

Who Moved His Cheese?

Mama Lai and I were wandering around a museum and we came across this piece:

And Mama Lai put a hand on her hip and demanded:

"What is this meaning of this?!  Why is he looking for cheese?"

She took one last quizzical glance and said to me:

"Well the weird guy is left handed.  That much I know." 

Head-to-Toe

Mama Lai looked down at her painted toe nails and remarked:

"You know, I always thought the best looking part of me are my toes.  I look down at my feet and I admire them.  But then I think, why couldn't it reverse, good head instead of good feet."

Skinny Dumpling

Mama Lai and I were preparing dumplings and she laughed at my the shape of my dumplings:

"If only you were as skinny as the dumplings you make, we would have no problems!"

Papa Lai should be Grandpapa Lai

Papa Lai took a morning stroll outside my apartment building and ran into a mother and a cute toddler.  The mother, in Chinese, told her little one to wave shake hands with her "grandfather neighbor" and Papa Lai returned to my place grumpy:

"I was just 'Uncle'!  When did I become a grandfather???"

And then he pouted at me:

"Already called grandfather and you haven't given me any grandkids!"