{"id":22044,"date":"2026-05-14T02:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/22044\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:07:25","slug":"on-the-menu-influencer-who-spat-out-food-on-japan-trip-leaves-a-bad-taste-in-the-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/22044\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Menu | Influencer who spat out food on Japan trip leaves a bad taste in the mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Food influencers, once derided for loving everything and hating nothing, are apparently now trying to stand out by doing the opposite.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In particular, a content creator by the name of Cian Abion \u2013 whose account Life of Cian has more than 3 million followers on TikTok and more than 600,000 on Instagram \u2013 has gone viral in the last week for his uncouth take on foods sampled on a trip to Japan.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a since-deleted clip, he complained that a creme caramel served at a long-standing Japanese cafe was too bitter (even though that is one of its selling points), spitting it out on camera in disgust. Later, he visited a Tokyo food truck known for its Texas-style barbecue and did the same thing after biting into a piece of A5 Wagyu, asking, \u201cIs it supposed to taste like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This is a grown man filming himself eating and expelling half-masticated food on the internet and complaining about it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abion was called out on Instagram by fellow content creators for his lack of respect towards food businesses. Photo: Instagram.com\/@daadisnacks\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8215add0-0f6f-4f8e-84fe-662786544689_fb9165b9.jpg\" title=\"Abion was called out on Instagram by fellow content creators for his lack of respect towards food businesses. Photo: Instagram.com\/@daadisnacks\"\/>Abion was called out on Instagram by fellow content creators for his lack of respect towards food businesses. Photo: Instagram.com\/@daadisnacks<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some argue that creators like Abion are just \u201ckeeping it real\u201d, as though having an opinion that goes even slightly against the grain justifies the complete disregard for simple human manners. Even if the famous pudding at Tokyo\u2019s Hekkelun was \u201coverrated\u201d, or the brisket at Slice of Life \u201cdry\u201d, spitting your food back out like a child immediately takes away any credibility you had to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food influencers, once derided for loving everything and hating nothing, are apparently now trying to stand out by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10902,17455,17456,17457,1234,8,17454,33,17458,15779,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-22044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-a5-wagyu","9":"tag-cian-abion","10":"tag-food-influencers","11":"tag-hekkelun","12":"tag-instagram","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-life-of-cian","15":"tag-nihon","16":"tag-slice-of-life","17":"tag-tiktok","18":"tag-tokyo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}