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26 / LIFESTYLE

without any mon-
etary reward.
“Camera eats
first” propels
the creation of
Foodstagrams.
Leung is doubt-
ful about the food-
ies’ effect on the Lucinda Leung
Taiwanese bubble
tea industry. “The flooding posts of a
particular food from different Foods-
tagrams can make a type of food sud-
denly become very popular, but also
out of the public eye very quickly,”
says Leung, “Hong Kong people like
jumping on the bandwagon of sharing
trendy food and that puts many food
Chiang prefers to do promotion by cooperating with K-pop fandom and beverage outlets into death.” In
the post has more than 800 likes. introduce food that is delicious. It will fact, this is what happens to eateries
Although Instagram is an image- be better if it has an enticing appear- on Dundas Street, restaurants move
oriented social media, when it comes ance. But even it does not look appeal- in and out every six to nine months,
to the recommendation of dishes, Le- ing, as long as it is tasty, I will still do a Leung adds.
ung thinks the taste is more important post on my Foodstagram,” says Leung, “There are people posting Taiwan-
than the appearance. “I really want to adding that she often uploads photos ese bubble tea whenever I browse my

A customer takes check-in photos of brown sugar bubble tea