Hello, welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dory Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums. Welcome back. Yeah, welcome

back. Welcome to our first show, our first new show of 2025. We are going guest-free. It's just going

solo episode. Yeah. Well, not solo, because there's two of us. Yeah. Duo app. Yeah.

We have a lot to catch up on, and it's the start of the year, so we're going to catch you up on some intentions for the show.

So let's just get cozy and have a little chat.

Yeah, and we always catch up at the top of the show anyway, and the two of us

haven't seen each other in a bit because I was traveling, and it's been a minute. So I guess Dory,

hit me with the headlines. Well, I want to hear about your trip. I feel like you have more

exciting headlines than I do, because I didn't go anywhere. So let's hear about Taiwan because I was following along on social media.

Yeah. Oh, man, it was an epic trip. So the way of Taiwan is to eat all the time because it is a food lover's paradise. The Taiwanese, I feel like it's an island of 25 million foodies. There's obviously

really great Chinese food because, you know, Taiwan is full of ethnically Chinese people.

And then, but then just all sorts of different other mixing and matching of cultures. So we,

we had hot pot. I want to say like four times in three days.

And finally, Rob, who came along, he was like, I'm done with hot pot. We're not doing like shaboo shaboo or hot pot anymore.

But Ava could have kept going with that, but enjoyed a lot of really great Japanese food, Shirashi bowls, don't bury bowls, conveyor belt sushi. The train system,

the railway system in Taiwan takes its pork chops so seriously and their bento boxes. So like the

railway bentos, which only costs like between two and three dollars US. They are, they have,

they're legendary and they've, spawned competition between different railway stations in terms of, like, who makes the best marinated pork chop.

And so, and, you know, these bentos come with a protein main and two or three vegetable

sides and a marinated egg and tofu, braised tofu on a bed of fluffy

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