This is customary with many chinese (and other asian) households. It doesnt actually happen at my parent's house as the whole bottom level of the house is tiled and they tend not to expect guests to walk around on cold floors. But if you've ever come to visit or stay with us, my mum would've certainly offered you a pair of slippers from her stash in the cupboard.
I think some of you may have even accepted, but you'd probably find that these Hong Kong bargain bought styles do not fit our general fish-bowl-effected size feet. When I was younger, my mum told me that if I walked around bare-footed, I'd grow up with really big feet (doh!) and she'd lure me with pink ug boots or ones that looked like animal's feet. The funniest was when my dad used to (recently) wear red ones with flowers and teddy bears on them.
Why do asians like wearing slippers?
I think its obviously because they dont want you trudging outdoor crap all over their expensive stone flooring or oriental rugs and white carpets. Perhaps its an indoor footwear vogue that just makes sense and westerners just dont get? Remember when girls were wearing those silky/velevety embroidered slippers as outdoor wear before the Havaiana explosion?
If anyone has any other theories, I'd like to know.
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