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Hannah Megennis, left, and Kalliana Kong, pictured here in 2017, launched Wellingnoms as a way of spending more time together before Megennis moved to Australia. Today you can’t scroll an inch on social media without bumping into a food blog, but in 2015, the platform was just gaining momentum. Wellington was bursting with cheap and cheerful places to eat – “and they’ve probably been there for as long as you can remember”. She ate out two to four times a week, after work or on her lunch break, often invited to openings and menu launches. Nothing was promised. “We make it clear that if we like it, we’ll do a post about it.”