Instagram, food porn and ugly delicious: how some dishes just don't cut it on social media | South China Morning Post

I see a lot of food porn on social media. Folks love to show off their fine-dining dishes featuring edible flowers delicately tweezered into place atop even more delicately poached seafood. They also post about colourful cocktails adorned with fruits and herbs, massive pizzas with oozing cheese and rich tomato sauce, and close-ups of scallop, tuna or beef carpaccio glistening under a portable ring light. What I don't see very often is Indian food. Sure, Hongkongers love South Asian cuisine, and Indians have a long and proud tradition in the territory, dating back to Sikhs arriving with the British in…