Domestic helpers these days are mostly Indonesians or Filipinos. To hire them, one would have to engage the service of a maid agency. I heard of someone engaging an unscrupulous one in Penang and got fleeced of RM8k. Don't know if maid agencies existed in the past but those days when Malaysia was still colonised by Britain, there were domestic helpers who came all the way from Shunde, China. While domestic helpers today dress casually, these women known as majie, wore samfu with white tops and black pants and had their hair plaited into a long pig tail or tied up in a bun. Majie in Cantonese means mother and sister. The name supposedly suggests their vocation as domestic helpers and their commitment to living life as single ladies. Majie would go through a combing ceremony called sor hei where they would have their hair tied up into a bun as they make a vow of celibacy and never to marry. The ceremony may be performed in front of a deity in a temple or a witness at home.
Enjoy the video below, Mother and daughter:
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