INQUIRER.net: Internet ‘floggers’ cash in on food-mad Asia

INQUIRER.net Philippine News for Filipinos

Internet 'floggers' cash in on food-mad Asia Feb 4th 2013, 00:14 KUALA LUMPUR—As a Hindu who does not eat beef but craves other meat, Tashny Sukumaran discovered her new passion for pork burgers through her native Malaysia's vibrant food-blogging, or "flogging," scene.   The Muslim-majority country's mainstream media shy from references to pork and other foods objectionable to Islam, but blogs have helped spark a burger boom in a nation with sizeable ethnic Chinese and Indian communities.   "I kept reading about pork burgers on 'flogs' but have never seen much in newspapers, I guess because it's non-halal," said Sukumaran, 22.   Food blogs have come to dominate Asia's gastronomical discourse, turning diners on to... Keep on reading: Internet ‘floggers’ cash in on food-mad Asia Media files: food-blogging.jpg (image/jpeg)

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