You are a true Hyderabadi if:

• Your address reads as 23-404-32/67A-43 (New MCH number 56-678/4A/B-22), while you actually live in the second house beside Zamzam cafe in lane behind Anand Theatre on SP Road
• You end up buying only a salwar kameez, whether it is a theatre workshop, food mela, consumer expo, designer jewellery show, science show or an automobile convention.
• Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that serves Chinese delicacies such as "Vegetable soft needles", "Navrotten Kurma", "Chicken Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee".
• Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' when somebody asks you for directions, whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.
• You come across tailors sporting the board: Immidiot delivery in two days onli.
• You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish, except Telugu, fluently.
• You ask the waiter to get you some 'Mango pickle' even if you are sitting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with exotic Chinese, Mexican,Italian and Lebanese cuisines.
• You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel custard.
• You have at least one Srinivas,Prasad, Raju or Venkatesh within six square feet. OR you have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance with these names.
• You have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance in the US in software
• Everytime somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask them is 'Party kab hain?'.
• Refer to any past as 'parso', be it yesterday or long before three hundred years.
• You call 11 AM as subah subah.
• You label your boss as 'Dimakh Kharab'.
• You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are on time.
• You look at the fixed price stand and still ask 'dene ka bolo'