A Singapore-based family’s surprise birthday celebration for their Filipino domestic worker at a Roxy Square restaurant moved both helper and her employer to tears, with a video of the moment winning netizens’ hearts.
TikToker @densonccc shared the nearly two-minute reel of his family bringing the helper to a Filipino restaurant in Roxy Sqaure.
Stating that “food can help with homesickness”, densonccc added that the helper was given the freedom to choose the dishes.
“Feel like we have to appreciate helpers more because they leave their family, everything behind in their home country, everything that’s comfortable and come to Singapore to work for a family that they are strangers to,” says densonccc.
“And not because they are not smart and not because they are not educated — my helper has a degree,” he says, adding that she could be working as a bank manager in the Philippines and still be earning considerably less than a helper in Singapore.
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“I’m in the Philippines area. I’m at home,” the helper says as she savours the myriad dishes on the table.
The helper appears overwhelmed at the end of the dinner as a slice of cake with a candle is brought out while the family sings the birthday song. And in a humorous yet heartwarming moment, even densonccc’s father sheds a tear, as the subtitles explain that they have a close relationship.
