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2016-03-13
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In today's society, we rely so much on social media. It comes in handy when we are looking for a nice lunch to have, but we judge the taste of something by its look most of the time. That's pretty much why so many bloggers and instagrammers evolved to snap for a dish for more than half an hour, where the food has actually been cooled and does not taste the same. But who cares? Nice photos means more *like*s, which drives more people to go visit, at the end of the day do people still bother if it
In today's society, we rely so much on social media. It comes in handy when we are looking for a nice lunch to have, but we judge the taste of something by its look most of the time. That's pretty much why so many bloggers and instagrammers evolved to snap for a dish for more than half an hour, where the food has actually been cooled and does not taste the same. But who cares? Nice photos means more *like*s, which drives more people to go visit, at the end of the day do people still bother if it tastes good or not?
Having said that, I am definitely one of the perfectionist when talking about #foodphotography. You need to get the lighting right, the angle right, the balance of the colours and saturation right that matches your caption to capture the most *like*s. When you have more likes, you have more followers. We all dream to have others to be interested in our repetitive lives, we all long to be a super star in our own little world. *Like*s are something you ensure yourself to be on the right track with others, to have aligned with the social norms. They are given because someone elses agree with you, which can mean a lot. So from time to time, I have also started to pick dining places by judging on whether I can take nice photos that can boost up my popularity in the virtual world, which bought me to Aberdeen Street Social few days ago.
For brunch, I ordered this Avocado Toast with Poached Eggs ($98). I definitely love my avocado to have picked this dish, but also pictured the yolk to be oozing out when I cut through it so I could tag #eggporn in the caption. But I didn't tag anything at the end, and merely posted the photo. The reason being that the taste was really far from what I expected. I wouldn't have thought of such a simple brunch item to be so disappointing, as it was very similar from the version I found in The Cupping Room, and I thought it was a pretty safe option to order. Turned out the egg and was watery, its white was still uncooked and the yolk was so rich as I would have expected. The overall flavour was rather bland together with the very velvety yet tasteless avocado cream. The best part was the toast which was kind of sad because all you could taste in the mouthful was the wheat and seeds.
Looking pretty legit, the Lobster Roll ($218) turned out to be cold. The brioche which was once toasted was no long crunchy, but rather dry and spiritless. The fries were nice and crunchy, but again I wouldn't climb up the hill for them like seriously.It was a very disappointing brunch after all, but I still posted photos because people like to see nice photos. Contradicting huh? Well it's just how the society works these days isn't it.
张贴
