A video about a young woman arriving late at night to an Airbnb in Portugal and being greeted with an unexpected act of kindness has gone viral on TikTok.
In the clip, Toronto-based content creator Ann Mathew (@browngirlthriving) captured the moment her Airbnb host began cooking her a warm meal, just after she checked in at midnight. The clip has garnered over 124,000 views since it was posted on April 22.
Mathew, 24, told Newsweek that she stayed at the Airbnb in Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, during her first solo trip to Europe. In the clip, she films her host preparing food in the kitchen. In the text overlaid on the video, the poster writes that, when she checked in, the host “immediately started making me a warm meal after I asked for the UberEats instruction.” The footage shows the host at the stove, cooking what Mathew later revealed …