Do your relatives give you a headache?

My mom called today to cancel our lunch date on Sunday – which is fine with me – no big deal. I was in the middle of eating lunch when she called. She wanted to know what I was eating, so I told her that I was having a sandwich and some chips. She proceeded to tell me that it doesn’t seem like I’m eating much, but it seems that I am still fat, so why don’t I try to exercise some. What the h---? Is this the Vietnamese way of making a compliment? May be that’s normal for Vietnamese people, but in America it’s considered an insult. It’s an equivalent of telling a Vietnamese person in Vietnam that they have a pretty tan.