Hard Rock Cafe of India will be holding burger eating contests at its Bengaluru (Bangalore), New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune locations.
Fatburger in Indonesia and Burger King in Singapore will hold burger eating challenges tomorrow.
Papagaio's in Jersualem, Isreal will hold a burger eating contest on October 10.
A web page and commercial are available for today's "Gluttonous King" on TV Tokyo. update Calorie Lab reports Takuya Terasaka was the winner. A video of the final spicy noodle round is available.
Kobayashi promotes food channel launch in Hong Kong
A press release announces that Takeru Kobayashi promoted the launch of a new cable food channel in Hong Kong. A video of an egg tart eating contest between Kobayashi and two actors is available on youtube. Kobayashi also appeared at a sausage roll eating contest won by Johnny Wu, runner-up to Sonya Thomas in a 2006 contest.
R Suzuki reports that Kobyashi also appeared in a Japanese program where he received the Guinness record for eating burgers.
The Butcher's Steakhouse in Beijing is holding a contest to choose the name of its new eight pound challenge burger.
Reztoc has a video from a hot dog eating contest held at NAF Atsugi in Japan where Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti competed. update JapanBases has a picture of winner Tim Janus.
1999 / 2000 TV Champion eating contest videos
sahimoto51177115 has some videos from an eating contest on a TV Champion episode from 1999 or 2000. The contest might have served as the Japanese qualifier for the 2000 Nathan’s finals. The three Japanese to compete in Coney Island in 2000 appear in this program: Kaz Arai (32 on bib), Misao Fujita (46 on bib) and Takako Akasaka (44 on bib), the holder of the pre-Sonya Thomas Nathan’s record. Clip 1 | Clip 2
Joey Chestnut defeats Kobyashi in Singapore
update May 12
News Channel Asia interview with Juliet Lee
CPBrand galleries: press conference | contest
KlikTV has a video
update May 10 VoxSports videos and galleries
Reuters video
soshiok article about Juliet Lee
The MLE facebook reports that Joey Chestnut (380 wontons in 8 minutes) defeated Takeru Kobayashi (370) in Singapore. I think this is Kobayahi’s first loss in Asia since the 2002 Food Battle Club. Juliet Lee (160 wontons) won the women’s division.
update Bernama and Channel News Asia have articles and Road Runner has a gallery (via gastroboy)
update #2 BBC News has an article and video, ETribune has a news video and Sen028 has contest footage The BBC article says that Joey and Kobayashi will compete in a pizza contest before Nathan’s
eatingcontest and cpbiggesteater have pictures of Joey Chestnut, Juliet Lee and Takeru Kobayashi in Singapore. VR-Zone has pictures of qualifying leader Ng Chin Sheng and women's leader, Koh Yeow Thien, who would have tied for fifth in the men's division.
Qualifying is now closed for the CP Biggest Eater contest in Singapore. NG-Chin Sheng leads the males with 78 shrimp wontons in 5 minutes. Maria Koh is the women's leader with 68.
CPBiggestEater has some tweetphotos of the first heat of the shrimp wonton eating contest held in Singapore.
Kobayashi, Joey & Juliet Lee in Singapore May 9
CPBiggestEater.com announces that Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Juliet Lee will compete in a shrimp wonton contest in Singapore on May 9. Qualifiers for the contest will take place on April 25 and May 2.
This will be the second Singaporean event for Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut; they also competed in a contest in July 2008.
Sugawara threepeats “Gluttonous Queen”
RocketNews24 reports that Hatsuyo “the Witch” won TV Tokyo’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest for the third year in a row. Youtube has videos of the final round: Part 1 | Part 2
update Calorie Lab has an English blog entry about the program
DVDs of the 2005 Gluttonous King and 2006 Gluttonous Queen contests are now on sale.
TV Tokyo's website has a page for Sunday's Gluttonous Queen program featuring Hatsuyo "the Witch" Sugawara and Ayari Sato. Tomoko Miyake will also compete after a 3 year absence from Gluttonous King / Queen contests.
The Nation reports that Hing Laichan, a 66 year old motorcycle taxi driver, died in a pad thai noodle eating contest in the Phetchaburi province of Thailand.
A web page has been set up to promote TV Tokyo's broadcast of a qualifier for the 2010 "Gluttonous Queen" contest on January 1.
Preeth Walser has some videos of a hands free turkey eating contest sponsored by Chennai Live 104.8 (apparently Indian FM stations can end in even numbers)
Ayari Sato links
If you need more information about the 2009 female rookie of the year poll choices, here are some links about “Gluttonous King” winner Ayari Sato:
- Video of rib eating round from September’s “Gluttonous King” contest
- Personality profile segment from March’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest (where she finished 4th) which shows here eating 10 pounds of food (3 1.5 kg bowls) in 29 minutes at a restaurant.
- Slideshow of “Gluttonous Queen” screen captures.
- Report on beef bowl eating contest set up by Kenji Aoki.
- Gallery
Hatsuyo Sugawara's victory in the Morioka wanko soba noodle eating contest was mentioned in the "What's Up With Japan" segment of the G4 Network's Attack of the Show
Keizei.biz reports that Hatsuyo "The Witch" Sugawara won the Morioka wanko soba noodle eating contest for the third year in a row by eating 399 bowls in 10 minutes. update Japan Times has an English article about the contest.
The finals for The Big Bite Match hot dog eating contest sponsored by 7-11 of the Philippines have been rescheduled for November 14 after the original September date was cancelled by Typhoon Ondoy. The 25 finalists have already been determined.
Kobayashi eats 387 bowls of noodles in 2001 contest
Another contest from the 2001 Japanese Nathan’s qualifier is available on youtube. In this competition, Takeru Kobayashi eats 387 small bowls of noodles weighing 9.67 kg (21.3 pounds) to win. The noodle servers, who refill the bowl immediately after it is emptied, are almost as impressive as the eaters.
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