How this foodie Facebook group has grown to become a voice for Atlanta’s AAPI communities

ATLANTA — Fb is a social networking website connecting folks with others, however one Atlanta consumer is utilizing it to attach folks with meals.

“We rejoice our tradition however we need to share our tradition,” Karley Giang defined, including the idea was the genesis of a preferred, and rising, Fb group.

Giang is now sharing Asian tradition with greater than 20,000 Fb members, and a majority of them are in metro Atlanta.

She created the ATL Asian Eats Fb group in 2018 to inform her family and friends in regards to the nice Asian spots she’s discovered throughout the metro.

However in 2020, on the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, she discovered an excellent larger want for the group.

Giang started to consolidate an inventory of Asian mom-and-pop eating places to assist them get enterprise.

Folks even contributed to the thought, partaking with posts and helped out by shopping for meals from the eateries or spreading the information to their social circles too. It was a complete group coming collectively and that was actually particular, she mentioned. 

And the group has taken off since then.

Now it serves to alert members to new eating places and feel-good tales from throughout communities. 

Giang mentioned she hopes the group will proceed to carry cultures collectively by way of shared experiences, and naturally, meals.