Tomoko Miyake arrives in the USA

August 20, 2007 at 7:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Tomoko Miyake (三宅智子)

Tomoko Miyake has blog entries about the departure and arrival of her flight to JFK to compete in a pumpkin eating contest in Rhode Island. After arriving, Tomoko and her teammate Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota ate at the American Steakhouse restaurant in Connecticut.

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  1. Anonymous said

    August 20, 2007 @ 7:55 am

    “America loves American Steakhouse!”

  2. David Johansen said (Registered August 21, 2007)

    August 21, 2007 @ 8:34 pm

    NEWS FLASH I heard from a reliable source that the tandem Gentlemen Joe Menchetti and Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Cassidy decisively defeated the great Shirota and Japan’s second best female eater Tomoko Miyake in 4 out of the 5 Pumpkin based dicsiplines. (Pumkin Pizza, Pumpkin Meatloaf, Pumpkin rice dish, and Pumpkin pudding, and Pumpkin Dumplings) Any verifications???

  3. INVADER said

    August 21, 2007 @ 11:18 pm

    Thanks for passing the word, Dave. I heard the same not too long ago and can’t wait for details/pics/video. Awesome work from two independents/free agents/AICE affiliates/whatever: a well established and distinguished Joe Menchetti and the new force to reckon with, Elizabeth Cassidy. Seriously, that’s just bad ass. Almost as bad ass as their orange colored poo. Yea, I just said ‘poo.’

  4. Carey said

    August 22, 2007 @ 8:36 am

    How many pumpkin HDB’s did Joe get down?

  5. Who is OJ Rifkin? said

    August 22, 2007 @ 11:58 am

    Now we know why the IFOCE has been running scared of AICE.

  6. Who is OJ Rifkin? said

    August 22, 2007 @ 12:00 pm

    Carey:

    Don’t know totals yet, but I have been told the contest was not even close

  7. Donde esta OJ Rifkin? es Loco!! said

    August 22, 2007 @ 12:05 pm

    IFOCE running scared??…..no mas loco weed para tu

  8. Anonymous said

    August 22, 2007 @ 12:19 pm

    Those guys don’t eat for speed in Japan. They’re not allowed to. TV producers make them eat slowly.

  9. Rhonda Evans said

    August 22, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

    Joe Menchetti is VERY speedy. Shirota is also very fast (or he was), because in the 2004 Nathan’s Finals he stayed right with Koby for the first 8-10 minutes, dog for dog. I suspect that Tomoko was “The Weakest Link” speed-wise.

    But this is all conjecture until the official results come in.

  10. Carey said

    August 22, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

    Sure, now, after kids copied what they saw on tv and a couple of them choked to death. They started out speed eating on TV, and I am sure there are contests that aren’t televised over there that still do speed eating.

  11. anonymous said

    August 22, 2007 @ 4:50 pm

    I’m writing this as anoymous for deniability, but everyone should know the author.

    The 1st event was Pizza. It had lobster claws & bits of pumpkin. Both Rubber Gut & Miyake seemed to start slow. (for CEaters)
    about half way through, Rubber gut seemed to pick up speed. She struggled a little with some crust at the end, but finished the Pizza 15-30 seconds before Miyake.

    Gentleman Joe then hit the pumpkin? Gnocchi. He powered thru it like it was the Dumpling contest, energizing the pumpkin growers who were watching & cheering. By the time Gjoe finished, Shirota had between half & two thirds of his Gnocchi left. Which began as 2 kilos (4.4lbs)

    Rubber gut then begins the pumpkin? Meatloaf. (2kg) She starts it a little slow & uses the salad garnish to help down the loaf, which she says is a little dry. Rubber gut is probably more than half done with the meatloaf before Miyake starts.
    Miyake seems to have immense trouble with the loaf after her 1st few bites.
    Gjoe is told to ask Rubber Gut to slow down. He says something to Rubber Gut but she plods along at a similar pace.

    Rubber Gut finishes the Meatloaf & the salad (which wasn’t required). Miyake still has at least 75% of hers left.

    Gjoe starts the pumpkin Rice. (2kg) Production asks Gjoe to go slow. Surprisingly, he does. Gjoe gets half way through the rice while Miyake has come to all but a stop half way though the meatloaf. Production pleads with Gjoe to go slower, Gjoe says ‘if he were going any slower he’d be going backwards’. He also says he’ll go as fast or slow as they like, IF they guarantee the victory.

    They agree!

    Production STOPS. It stops for atleast a half hour, maybe as long as an hour. Its believed that Miyake may have relieved herself during that time.

    When, production restarts, Miyake plods through the meatloaf but there is only about half as much in her dish as when production stopped. Gjoe pretends to eat the rice while Miyake eats the meatloaf.

    She finally finishes & Shirota’s rice is brought out. It is supposed to be 2kg’s but has about the same amount in it as Gjoe has, & he’s eaten half of his already. Shirota powers through most of the rice. Now Gjoe is having problems, & asks what he should do if he needs to relieve himself. Production is again stopped, this time for only about 5 minutes, as Gjoe uses the facilities.

    As we come back, for Tv’s sake, Shirota has 2-3 spoonfuls left to Gjoe’s 7-8 spoonfuls & production says how it ends up now is how it ends up. (meaning whoever wins the rest of the way, wins.)

    Shirota finishes the rice about 15 seconds before Gjoe, & he & Miyake begin on the 3kg’s of pumpkin pudding, that’s texture is more like custard.

    Gjoe & Rubber Gut attack the pudding. Rubber Gut asks Gjoe to eat the fruit garnish as she starts the pudding itself. Gjoe does so, & then he & rubber Gut make it disappear in about a minute & a half to win convincingly, as Shirota & Miyake have about half the pudding left.

    Notable: If this contest was run in real time (as it will probably be presented) Gjoe & rubber Gut would have won in about 30 minutes & Miyake would still be only half way thru the meatloaf.

    Rubber Gut who was an unproven quantity before this contest has proven herself & seems to have a Rich LeFevre quality to her eating.

    Gjoe will likely make another appearance in or around RI at the Great Pumpkin weigh off, around Columbus day to do an exhibition to break his own Pumpkin Pie eating record.

    It is unknown why, Miyake struggled as much as she did. She appeared to be fine that day, as well as the day before.

    At the end Gjoe kissed the hand of Miyake & hugged her as well. (thats for Rhonda)

  12. Carey said

    August 22, 2007 @ 11:50 pm

    I can understand why you want to remain anonymous, mister innocent bystander at the pumpkin festival. I know it is of diferent eaters, but I think this account of the proceedings confirms my suspicions about Gal Sone, and her productions on video. Do we have a toilet cam of what went on during the breaks?

  13. Who is OJ Rifkin said

    August 23, 2007 @ 6:47 am

    Hey Donde esta OJ Rifkin? es Loco!!

    I would rather be smoking weed then sucking on the IFOCE Shelalie. By the way, there is nothing “natural” about mutilating and desicrating your food. Your just another 2nd tier punk talking shit

    Now what?

  14. Rhonda Evans said

    August 23, 2007 @ 8:09 am

    Sometimes I get a bit tired of reading the (albeit infrequent) IFOCE vs AICE rhetoric. If you can’t say something good about an eater in another organization, simply say nothing at all.

    If you take the time there are handfuls of constructive things a person can say about each and every eater in both orgs.

  15. speaking of eating said

    August 23, 2007 @ 9:40 am

    Arnie , it seems that anytime someone in your organization puts up a huge number at one of your events or beats a big name opponent in this case Shirota, you make your presence felt by slamming the IFOCE as an alias such as Who is OJ Rifkin. Something is bothering you . We have known that for years. You want the acceptance and admiration of the Shea’s . This wont happen because they will never accept any rival eating organization or anything else that does not pertain to the IFOCE. They are set in their ways and it looks as though that will never change.We are also aware that you tried to reach out to them in the past during the initial phase of your organization. That did not work so you decided the only other alternative is to engage in smear campaigns and belittling the eating abilities of IFOCE members. If you are not an IFOCE member, any person or person’s not affiliated with the organization along with not having a signed contract with the organization, becomes a non entity to them. In essence you can rant and rave at your events or on eatfeats about inequality but it will fall on deaf ears. Those same deaf ears will retain their hearing ability when a person or person’s with a rival eating organization poses a direct threat to one of their sponsors. If you are able to pull strings and land a big name such as Nathans or Krystals, then more power to you. As you can see the $500 purses you offer just wont cut it. Your selling point of “we have fun competing” or “dissenion amongst IFOCE members” is just not enough to coerce top IFOCE members to sit down and eat at your table. Prize money of $300 to $500 might have sounded like big bucks to Joey Chestnut Bertoletti or other big names if you were the only game in town. However the IFOCE came along first and these young kids were essentially spoiled with $2500 to $5000 pay outs. It seems that most of these young and talented eaters will not offer their services unless it is comparable to those figures. . You also seem to have a fixation with masked identities. and trying to decipher the phonies from the genuine people. You should have been a private investigator instead of a social worker. I can picture you walking up to someone shaking their hand with a big smile and then without warning the smile turns sour with a comment such as “YOU KNOW WHAT? I THINK YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT! “

  16. Carey said

    August 23, 2007 @ 12:07 pm

    Do you actually think Arnie is going to have the patience to read all of that? 🙂

  17. who's your daddy? said

    August 23, 2007 @ 12:14 pm

    it’s well known that the top 5 eaters are there for a reason… joey, koby, pat, sonya, X … but I think AICE has the talent to compete with anyone else in the league…. at certain disciplines and time frames, i think AICE would take a handful of those contests.

    Aside from those 5 though, not much can be said…. anyone else in IFOCE is a potential AICE competitior

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