Like getting home to eat a Chinese? (5)
I believe the answer is:
asian
'chinese?' is the definition.
(chinese is a kind of Asian)
'like getting home to eat a' is the wordplay.
'like' becomes 'as'.
'getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'to eat' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'in' enclosing 'a' is 'ian'.
'as'+'ian'='ASIAN'
(Other definitions for asian that I've seen before include "Eastern national" , "Continental native" , "inhabitant of Lahore, perhaps" , "from way outside the UK" , "someone from abroad?" .)