We were preparing a meal in a hotel kitchen and my mom asked our helper to prepare the sauce for her salad but also wanted her to do it discretely as she didn’t want to give her recipe away. The chef started to ask about us, primarily asking about where we were from and our immigration status. We suggested that we weren’t quite here on fully legal terms admitting it outright. My mom later needed to pay 4537 NTD and I asked her if she needed any change.