OK, maybe it’s less of an Asian thing and just another example of how technology is changing the ways in which we memorialize good times, but does anyone not have at least a few friends whose phones and cameras are cluttered with photos of food?

I don’t mean the title of this post to be taken literally, of course (that would be ridiculous). But isn’t there a similar thing going on? You’re grateful for that beautiful cheap, plastic plate of hot guo tie in front of you, or the bowls of curry and bharta simmering on the tabletop in the dim light, or the steaming, enormous bowl of pho under the fluorescent lights and what better way to show it than by trying to preserve the memory pho-rever?? You’re a food pornographer. You and everyone else at the table who whipped out their phone. You think that someday, you’ll flick through the photos on the Camera Roll in your iPhone and remember exactly how you felt staring wide-eyed at that styrofoam container filled with xiang qiang fan, and you know what: you’re RIGHT! You will!

Take that photo, you food pornographer. In fact, take several from different angles for safety.