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During a 31 km trail race in Thailand involving jungle, stream crossings, and rubber orchards, the author took a hard tumble down a rocky slope that left him with scrapes, a puncture wound near his shoulder, and cuts on his hand and wrist — injuries he only fully discovered hours later when treating them with Betadine. Despite the fall, he finished the race in around four hours and fourteen minutes, and notes with pride that his moustache emerged completely unscathed.

A reunion lunch in Canada with an old friend sparks a nostalgic reflection on their last meeting over coffee in a Shanghai skyscraper 25 years ago, giving the author the perfect excuse to share a cherished photo from that encounter.

Limited-edition BLACKPINK Oreos come in three flavors — chocolate with chocolate cream, original, and chocolate with strawberry cream — and the author plans to do a taste test after recently purchasing all three varieties.

A reader shares brief reflections on the books they finished for the first time in 2022, including standouts like Conquest by Hugh Thomas (their favorite of the year) and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, alongside works by Franzen, Grisham, Kawabata, Murakami, and others spanning fiction, history, and science.

The author reviews Utz’s crab-flavored potato chips, finding the texture excellent but the crab flavor undetectable — more like “seasoned salt” — adding it to a long personal collection of crab chip varieties tried across different countries, and credits a mention on The Talking Greenkeeper podcast for prompting the taste test.

A runner recounts completing a 25 km trail race at Deception Pass State Park, highlighting the nerve-wracking double crossing of the narrow, dizzying Deception Pass Bridge and the challenging route through steep, slippery terrain, finishing 116th out of 216 runners.

Crispy fried banana snacks and novelty burger-flavored seaweed are among the Thai food curiosities explored here, including a breakdown of how the fried bananas are made from whole dried small bananas coated in batter.

A tour of the surprising variety found in the grocery store’s seaweed snack aisle, featuring an array of unexpected flavors including spicy chili, corn soup, BBQ grilled lobster with pineapple, and sausage, as well as various formats like big rolls and big sheets.

A tasting of five new Lay’s Thailand flavors — including chuka wakame, chili crab, sour twist, seafood twist, and grilled eel — yields a surprise winner in the Xtra Crunchy unagi chip, while the seafood twist disappoints by tasting too similar to the sour twist.

A potato chip enthusiast reviews six flavors across two “3-in-1” bags — salmon chili lime and a multi-flavor caramel popcorn cheddar cheese butter corn — captured in an accidentally made first chip review video that ends abruptly when the chips hit the floor.