YouTube Travel and Food Channels

So not working and having insomnia is a bad combination. It also means I watch a lot of YouTube videos. Recently, it’s mainly these three channels:

• Migrationology with Mark Wiens
• Strictly Dumpling with Mike Chen
• Aquaholic with some British guy

Forget about the last one for now; it’s mainly a channel that tours mid-sized yachts. The other two channels are mainly about travel and food. Both hosts seem to have huge appetites and like everything spicy. Mark appears to be half-white and half-Asian (Thai?) and lives in Thailand. Mike is a Chinese guy from New York. I’ve been watching a lot of their videos, especially those filmed in Taiwan and Japan since I just visited a few years ago. Mike has a video about Mala Hot Pot in Taiwan:

I think I’ve been to the exact same restaurant branch a few years earlier in 2015. Here’s a photo I took while we ate:

Likewise, Mark has a video where they visit the Taipei Zoo and he eats stinky tofu at the top of Maokong Gondola:

We were there a few months after him and I bought stinky tofu at the exact same location:

I can’t travel now but I was thinking about traveling again and eating post-transplant. However, most of the food in Asia are definitely not heart healthy. Everything is greasy from cooking oil and the meat is pretty fatty. After watching some videos from the channels above, I wonder how long those guys will last without their own heart bypass surgery. Maybe they work out a lot or are genetic freaks, but eating fat/salt/sugar in huge quantities can’t be good for them.

Primarily due to kidney failure and dialysis, I’m fairly careful about fluids when I eat. Tonight our family went out to eat for Chinese New Year. I couldn’t eat that much because of the two root canals from this morning but I turned down a second bowl of soup, not drinking too much tea, and avoiding all the salt/pepper dishes. Sigh…