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My parents supported the idea of me working in service jobs. By the time I was a teenager we were already solidly middle class. They grew up poor. They thought it was important for me to understand how the real world works. Other Chinese Singaporean middle class families absolutely baby-ed their kids and

Let’s just say working in service jobs made me forever disappointed and disgusted by middle class Chinese Singaporeans

I worked as a cashier at a fast paced restaurant / bar empire and a lot of my food and cultural consciousness also comes from

Thai and Lao chefs feeding me delicious food all day and night

And anger at the owners treating everyone not in a suit and tie like shit