I am not aa gourmet. I am not a foodie. I have little interest in food other than to sustain life. While I can tell when food tastes awful, I cannot distinguish between good food and really good food the way that connoisseurs can. Hence I do not seek out eating ‘experiences’, going to fancy restaurants to try out their wares. However, I can understand people who do if they can afford to eat at such expensive places.

What I find hard to understand is people willing to risk going to prison for the sake of eating a fancy meal, the way that this 34-year old ‘influencer’ (seems like pretty much everyone is an influencer these days), who has come to be known as the ‘dine and dash diva’, did.

A would-be food influencer known online as the “dine-and-dash diva” has been jailed in Brooklyn, New York, after multiple previous arrests for allegedly skipping out on the bill at high-end restaurants.

Pei Chung, 34, is said to have developed a habit of going to fancy restaurants around New York City, ordering extensively off the menu – and then trying to get out of paying.

Chung has been banned from at least seven restaurants, according to the establishments, and police have said they keep arresting her for her refusal to pay restaurant bills. Chung allegedly skipped out on paying at Williamsburg restaurants at least six times – including one Michelin-starred brasserie, Francie, twice.

At one sitting in October, she reportedly ordered $15 foie gras, $32 carpaccio, $28 bucatini, $52 lamb and $19 hot chocolate mousse – before skipping out on the check.

The Instagram influencer also visited Peter Luger steakhouse where she ordered nearly $150 worth of steak, sides and dessert for herself, posted pictures of her meal and offered a glowing review.

But employees at the famous steak joint told NBC News it was odd that Chung stayed for hours. And when she was given the check, she allegedly told employees that she couldn’t pay and offered items, including kitchen scissors, from her handbag in exchange.

On Friday, Chung went to Mole in Brooklyn, and her alleged dine-and-dash run came to an end. The owner said that when the Prada-, Louis Vuitton- and Hermes-wearing influencer showed up for a third go at the menu, they wised up.

She does not seem to have been very good at running this scam, given her repeated arrests and bans from restaurants, and even returning to the same places. In her case, the attraction of doing this may have been more than just the satisfaction of having an expensive meal. She was clearly using the occasions to create content for her site.

Chung had been known to bring her own lighting equipment and camera to record herself trying out the dishes, the Post reported.

Why would she do this, so obviously risking arrest? She is described as a ‘wannabe’ influencer, suggesting that she had not been able to make it into the big leagues. The world of influencers is a competitive and crowded one, with people trying to make a good living promoting places and things to their followers. It helps to draw an audience if you are young and good-looking. In other articles you can see photographs of the heavily made-up, well-coiffed Chung.

Maybe she wanted to be arrested and get into the news so that she would be famous so that when she is released, she would be able to have a following large enough that she does not have to scam restaurants. So this post is a small contribution towards making her dream come true and avoiding prison in the future..

Or maybe she is just foolish and/or disturbed.