Bloggers Beware

What's eaten in Taiwan stays in Taiwan - unless you want to go to jail. Whatever you do don't mention the sodium content!

A court in Taiwan this week ruled against a female food-blogger who said a local restaurant's beef noodles 'were too salty,' and that she'd seen cockroaches scurrying around in the restaurant. She gets 30 days in detention, two years of probation, and must pay 200,000 Taiwanese dollars (about $7K US dollars) in compensation to the restaurant. The court didn't argue she was lying about the bugs, but ruled that 'Ms. Liu should not have criticized all the restaurant's food as too salty because she only had one dish on her single visit.'

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