Johnnie Excel reports that he broke the record for the Pho Garden challenge with a time of 13 minutes.
Matt Stonie has uploaded a video about his completion of the Pho King challenge in Fort Worth.
Matt Stonie announces that he was the first person to finish the pho challenge at Pho King Way in Fort Worth, TX, which awards a prize of $1,000.
New recent California challenge records
Matt Stonie broke the Broken Yolk Ironman Omelet record (now 7:15) and Stephanie Torres set a new women’s record of 12:11. | video | gallery | Naader Reda blog entry
Johnnie Excel and Stephanie Torres set a record for the 2 person XL Pizza Challge at Ballpark Pizza in Rancho Santa Margarita. | Video | Gallery | Johnnie Excel blog entry
Matt Stonie set the King Ranch 5 pound burrito record at La Casa Garcia in Anaheim (4:17). | Gallery | Naader Reda blog entry
Stephanie Torres is the first person to finish 5 of the 6 courses in the $1000 Pho King Way challenge, but she has not received her T-shirt consolation prize.
Jessica “Queen of Cuisine” will set the female record for the 2 pound burger at the Net Grill in Fresno after she is the first woman to attempt the challenge on Sunday.
Johnnie Excel has a blog entry and video about breaking the record for the Pho 20 Challenge at OB Noodle House in Ocean Beach, California.
Harrah's Reno has made a commercial to promote its new Big Bowl noodle eating challenge.
Don Sturdy has a blog entry and gallery about Jessica "Queen of Cuisine" Abdul Hussain's challenge attempt at Pho Garden in San Francisco. Jessica's server claimed that no woman has completed the challenge, which is contradicted by a challenge attempt report from March claiming a woman held the house record (30 minutes) at that time (Joey Chestnut has since broken that mark). (Nancy Hua also claims to have finished the challenge in April)
Pho Vietnam in Southaven, Mississippi (south Memphis area) has a pho noodle challenge consisting of 2 pounds of noodles and 2 pounds of meat that awards $200 to a diner that finishes it in an hour.
The Bold Italic has an article about Zoneil Maharaj attempting the 4 pound noodle challenge at the Pho Garden in San Francisco after receiving coaching from Joey Chestnut.
Pho King Way will award $1000 to a customer that can finish its 6 dish challenge in under one hour. The restaurant has 3 Texas locations (2 DFW), 2 Southern California sites and an Albuquerque location.
C C Kung wrote a blog entry about a trip to Pho Garden in Mountain View, CA where he encountered Joey Chestnut setting the record for the pho noodle challenge (4 lbs. in 21 minutes). Pat Bertoletti posted to his facebook that he set the pho challenge record at Saigon in St. Paul, MN.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of him eating almost 6 pounds of ramen noodles in 5 minutes.
Man vs. Food Feb 18 (Los Angeles) links
LA Times blog entry about the recording of the episode
- Orochon Ramen – Challenge: Special #2 spicy ramen
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Blog entry with videos of the challenge attempt
Picture of the Wall of Bravery, which is reportedly taken down and restarted every month - El Tepeyac Cafe
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Blog entry about the restaurant’s signature dish, the five pound Manuel Special burrito - Philippe the Original
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LA Times article about the restaurant’s centennial last year and its claim to the creation of the French dip sandwich
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