When I'm in a Chinese Restaurant, Mom, Could You Ask Your Parents for Some Water?

A lot of Philippines, I speak English, like it is a almost native language in the Philippines. If someone speaks to me in Tagalog, I can respond to them in perfect English because I can understand everything. And then they look at me very puzzled. Like, why are you not trying to do this thing? This is the same puzzle, but I'm like, what do you mean you don't understand what I said? Exactly. So what am I supposed to do in that instance? Yeah. Mm. How often are you? Are you, do you encounter this? Do you encounter like?