Five of us plus Mia arrived at our favourite Vietnamese restaurant. We were a bigger group than usual so the waiter seated us upstairs, where there are round banquet tables.

Damjan looked around and said, ‘I think there are more Aussies here today.’

Dad replied, ‘No, this is normal. They always put the white people upstairs.’

‘Really? Why?’

‘Because white people eat slowly. They put them here to avoid clogging up the busy tables downstairs.’