A Vietnamese restaurant in California went viral after the owner’s daughter shared a video of her father waiting for customers in their empty business on TikTok.
Jennifer Lee, 21, was reportedly home from graduate school and helping her parents at their family business, Lee’s Noodle House on Hopper Avenue in Santa Rosa.
In a video, Lee records her father Vuong, who is wearing a red winter jacket and leaning on the counter of their empty restaurant. Vuong can be seen staring out the restaurant’s front door, appearing to be in a sad and pensive mood due to the lack of customers.
Lee shared the video of her father on TikTok on Jan. 18, and it has since garnered more than 900,000 views and over 111,000 likes.
“It makes me so sad to see my parents just wait for customers to walk through the door to eat at their Vietnamese restaurant,” Lee wrote in the video’s caption.
TikTok do your thing and help support my parents’ Vietnamese restaurant. My parents haven’t been having that many customers and been feeling stressed dealing with financial issues. If you want to check it out, they make delicious Vietnamese food
@jennif3rle tiktok do your thing & help support my parents Vietnamese restaurant:( my parents haven’t been having that many customers & been feeling stressed dealing with financial issues. if you want to check it out, they make delicious vietnamese food:) 1010 Hopper Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 #fyp #vietnamesefood #restaurant ♬ The videos under this audio breaks my heart – •.༺♡༻.•
After the TikTok video went viral, Lee’s Noodle House has received a rush of new customers.
Following the overwhelming support on social media, Lee made three more TikTok videos to provide more information on their restaurant, including videos and photos of their Vietnamese dishes.
In the caption for a video shared on Thursday, she wrote:
The amount of love and responses from the TikTok community has been insane! Also, thank you to the…
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