做完你的做你的zuò wán nǐ de zuò nǐ de

Yours, then yours (one order at a time)

zuò wán nǐ de zuò nǐ de!做完你的做你的！Yours, then yours!

做完你的做你的 means “I finish yours, then I do yours”: one thing at a time, and everybody gets a turn. It comes from a chicken cutlet vendor in Jingdezhen, and people now say it about a pile of work they are getting through.

Took off: 2025
Started in: Videos of a street vendor
Today: Current

What it means

Each 你 points at a different customer. The vendor looks at one person, then the next: “I finish yours, I do yours.” Written down without the pointing, the sentence sounds like a loop, which is part of the joke.

Online it describes being busy but in control: many tasks at once, done in order, none of them rushed.

How people use it

It is current. People say it about their own to-do list, the way the vendor said it about his orders: three essays due, fifty messages to answer. It sounds calm and a little proud.

Said to someone who is waiting, it means “you’re next, hold on”.

灯灯和朋友们 (3)

里昂
我的面好了吗？
wǒ de miàn hǎo le ma?
Are my noodles ready?
琦琦
还有我的！
hái yǒu wǒ de!
Mine too!
别急，做完你的做你的
bié jí, zuò wán nǐ de zuò nǐ de
Hold on. Yours, then yours.
里昂
哈哈，鸡排哥上身了
hā hā, jī pái gē shàng shēn le
Ha ha, you’ve turned into Chicken Cutlet Brother.

More examples

消息太多了，做完你的做你的，一个一个来。
xiāo xi tài duō le, zuò wán nǐ de zuò nǐ de, yí gè yí gè lái.
So many messages. I’ll answer them in order, one by one.
别急，做完你的做你的，马上到你。
bié jí, zuò wán nǐ de zuò nǐ de, mǎ shàng dào nǐ.
Don’t rush. Yours, then yours. You’re almost up.

Where it came from

The line comes from 鸡排哥, “Chicken Cutlet Brother”, a vendor who fries chicken cutlets at a street stall in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. In late September 2025, videos of him at work spread online, and many tourists came to queue at his stall, The Paper reported.

He serves a crowd and talks the whole time. Nanfang Daily quoted his line in full: 做完你的我做你的，做完你的做你的，我心里有数, “I finish yours, I do yours; I know what I’m doing.” Office workers soon used it for their own deadlines.

A cutlet costs 6 yuan, and students pay 1 yuan less. The research firm 克劳锐 included the line in its list of ten hot memes of 2025.

The original. Short clips of the vendor at his stall: he fries cutlets in one wok and talks to a crowd of customers while he serves them in turn. The Paper reported on the crowds in September 2025. The Paper (in Chinese)