A Singaporean family decided to show their appreciation to their domestic helper by giving her a taste of home by bringing her to a Filipino restaurant for her birthday.
In a TikTok video posted on Sunday (April 26), 30-year-old Denson Chow and his family can be seen bringing Aseniero Abegail Quilicon, 34, to the restaurant to celebrate the occasion.
In the video, Chow said: “We have to appreciate helpers because they leave their family and everything behind in their home country… to come to Singapore to work for a family that they are strangers to.
“It’s not because they’re not smart, not because they’re not educated.”
He added that Abegail has a degree and could be a bank manager in the Philippines but she would earn two to three times less than as she would as a helper in Singapore.
As she ate a spoon of sinigang, a Filipino stew, Abegail said: “(Feels like) I’m at home.”
Abegail begins tearing up at the end of the video as Chow’s family and restaurant staff gift her a cake and sing her Happy Birthday.
