“Prada-loving faux food influencer is a serial dine-and-dasher at top NYC eateries”

Tbh looks like she’s just having fun, and taking advantage of a system that won’t actually punish people - and she isn’t doing it as badly or in the same way as those outright robbing stores. Her family is from Taiwan apparently.

Pei Chung, 34, of Brooklyn – who flaunts Prada heels, Louis Vuitton handbags and Hermes belts all over Instagram – has been arrested five times since late October for indulging at local high-end restaurants such as Peter Luger and Francie in Williamsburg, stiffing staffers and then blogging about her stolen fare.

Chung allegedly poses as a food influencer — complete with a camera and lighting set-up — and posts dishes such as Colorado lamb from the Michelin-starred European brasserie Francie and marbled meat from the famed Peter Luger to her 13,000 followers.

“She’s going into established restaurants dressed to the nines, racking up hundreds of dollars in food, defrauding them, then posting on Instagram like the restaurant hired her,” said a source close to Williamsburg’s new American restaurant Meadowsweet, which was allegedly one of Chung’s victims, to The Post. 

“All her cards were declined,” the source said. “Our team was confused – shocked. She was so self-assured and brazen about it,” added the source, who saw Chung allegedly dine and dash and equated her behavior to the “Bling Ring,” an infamous group of fame-obsessed mainly teen robbers who targeted celebs’ homes in California nearly two decades ago. The Brooklyn food fraudster — who lives in a luxury, waterfront high rise in Williamsburg — waltzed into Francie on Oct. 22, feasting on $15 foie gras, $32 carpaccio, $28 bucatini, $52 lamb, and $19 hot chocolate mousse, police and sources said.

She bartered instead of paying the $188 bill, according to the police report. “She wanted to trade pictures and a blog post for the meal,” said John Winterman, an owner at Francie, to The Post, claiming Chung came in like the restaurant had hired her as an influencer. “I said, ‘That would be something we would have to agree upon before, and we haven’t done that, so I need you to pay the check,’ ” he said.

When Chung’s cards were declined, she said she was waiting for money from her family, Winterman said. He said she returned several times for more food but was refused service over her unsettled tab. Chung then allegedly returned Friday, Nov. 7, just after 7:30 p.m. and ordered $83.83 worth of food and refused to pay. Cops were called, and she was arrested and handcuffed at the bar on theft-of-services charges, authorities said. 

“Police officers showed up. Two cars and four cops – they looked at her and said, ‘Oh yeah. That’s her. We know her,’ ” Winterman said. “I had a full bar, people standing around having drinks. “The police went to the bar, read her her rights, handcuffed her at the bar and escorted her out.”

Just a day earlier, Chung had slipped into the nearby Lavender Lake restaurant on Broadway in Williamsburg — where cocktails start at $16 — and allegedly racked up a $97 bill and left without paying. Chung also visited Peter Luger on Oct. 27 around 6:45 p.m. and worked up a $146 tab she refused to pay, police said.

On Tuesday, Nov. 11, she then visited Motorino Pizza at 139 Broadway and refused to pay her $135 bill, police said. A day later, she was arrested and charged for the alleged theft of services and issued a desk-appearance ticket that orders her to appear in court.