Sugawara wins Morioko noodle contest
Hatsuyo Sugawara prepared for the upcoming AICE vs. Japan contest by winning the Morioka Wanko Soba noodle eating contest. She consumed 340 cups of noodles in 15 minutes, which bested the male runner up by 121 cups and exceeded Sugawara’s 2006 total of 298 cups.
Jill Stoler records segments for Japanese TV
“Sweet” Jill Stoler has a blog entry and information on her myspace page about recording segments that will be televised during the AICE vs. Japan contest.
“The Nurse” makes magazine cover
Chie “the Nurse” Kakazu competing in the Okayama wanko soba eating contest appears on the cover of the October issue of the magazine published by the government of the city of Niimi in Okayama prefecture.
More on AICE vs. Japan
Jill Stoler says she will be competing in Japan with several other AICE eaters from December 13 to December 19 on her myspace page.
AICE news has possible matchups. One of the American eaters is “Baby Doll†Deptkowitz.
Jill Stoler to Japan?
“Sweet” Jill Stoler’s myspace page announces that she is going to Japan and that details will follow. AICE news reports that a team is being formed to compete with Japanese eaters.
Shanghai hot dog contest
A New York Times blog entry reports on a skateboarding festival that took place in Shanghai, China. A hot dog eating contest was held during that event. Not many details are provided about the competition, but a a picture of a sign says it was called the “2nd Melrose & Hormel Hot Dog Eating Championship”
Link Buffet: November 12, 2007
Hungry Sisters KSO IV galleries: Part 1, Part 2
Pro CE column in U of Oregon paper. Russ Keeler is quoted.
Article about the Borough, a Raleigh, NC restaurant which hosts a monthly eating contest.
Anti Cayman Island conch fritter contest editorial
62 year old spicy chili eating champion from India
Eating contest for Corgi dogs
MTV In N Out burger eating contest video (from Laura)
Anti – CE rant on youtube , not safe for work (from Beautiful Brian)
New Chinese star can eat almost 1 pound of rice
ChinaDaily reports on a Chinese contest winner:
All-you-can-eat buffet restaurant owners in Changsha, Hunan Province, worry when Zheng Guangshun arrives.
Zheng, 38, can eat at least 400 g of rice in a single sitting. He became a well-known figure in Hunan’s provincial capital after he ate 21 yuanxiao (sweet dumplings made of glutinous rice flour) in two minutes, followed by 10 big zongzi in three minutes, at an eating competition in 2005.
400g is .88 pounds. (I assume they meant 4000 g)
New York wanko soba contest
F. Sasaki has a blog entry about the wanko soba noodle eating contest sponsored by the city of Hanamaki, Japan held in New York City on October 27. The event was based on the Morioko eating contest and used Japanese bowls and server costumes. There were children’s and team divisions as in the Japanese contest.
Link Buffet, November 2, 2007
Youtube clip of the eating contest at Rutgers from “The Apprentice”
blog entry by runner up in the UK breakfast eating contest
North Jersey hot dog eating contest, winner ate 11 hot dogs in 5 minutes and won $250
“Mean” Gene Okerlund of the WWE opens a fast food restaurant and oversees a burger eating contest
CBS News article about the pumpkin farm where the US-Japan pumpkin eating contest took place (Joe Menchetti is not mentioned)
Howard University anti-CE (really anti-obesity) editorial
Kansas U corn dog contest video
Parody about high school eating competitive eating clubs
Branson, MO pizza contest
Evansville, Indiana donut contest video
Billy Blanks (Tae Bo) does eating contest in Japan
Eating contests in “Survivor: China”
RealityTVWorld has a recap of last night’s immunity challenge in “Survivor: China” which consisted of eating contests involving Chinese foods which are generally not found in a typical Chinese restaurant in the United States:
Frosti quickly ate his 10 chicken hearts ahead of Peih-Gee, and Fei Long took a 1-0 lead. Courtney and Jaime were close as they both tried to choke down three pieces of eel — which included the heads — however Jaime was just a hair quicker opening her mouth and allowing Zhan Hu to tie the score.
Erik also won a close round against Amanda — chomping and swallowing three baby turtles and narrowly being the first to reveal an empty mouth — giving Zhan Hu a 2-1 lead. James faced Denise next and both had to eat two chicken fetuses with feathers. James tried his damndest to throw the challenge, but Denise couldn’t choke back the chicken. James put on a good show, but once he realized Denise wasn’t going to finish her dish, he solemnly ate all that was on his plate and gave Zhan Hu a 3-1 lead.
Needing only one point to win Immunity, Erik ate a 1,000-year-old egg faster than Frosti and clinched it for Zhan Hu.
Japanese buffet weight gain contest
Deresque has a blog entry with a lot of pictures from a lunch last month he had with 13 other competitive eating friends at the Grand Buffet Hawaiian Island in Tokyo. The fourteen eaters were grouped into 7 two person teams and each member was weighed before and after eating lunch at the buffet. The team with the highest combined weight gain was proclaimed the winner.
The top 5 single person weight gains were:
1. Takuya Yamamoto, 23.76 lb. / 10.8 kg (54.3 kg -> 65.1 kg), on #1 team
2. Mio “Sakura” Takahashi 15.2 lb. / 6.9 kg (31.3. kg -> 38.2 kg), on #2 team
3. Tomoko Miyake, 14.3 lb. / 6.5 kg (38.2 kg -> 44.7 kg) on #2 team
4. Asami “Essen” Miyanishi, 13.4 lb. / 6.1 kg (unlisted start & finish) on #3 team
5. Yamaguchi 12.32 lb. / 5.6 kg (60.6 kg -> 66.2 kg), on #1 team
Sakura Takahashi had the highest percentage weight gain, 38.2 / 31.3 = 22%, edging out Takuya Yamamoto, 65.1 / 54.3 = 20%
Wanko soba contests in Hot Springs and NY
From breitbart.com
The city of Hanamaki in Iwate Prefecture will host the region’s famous “wanko-soba” noodle-eating competition in two U.S. cities, according to city officials.
In the competition, participants will eat as many bite-size portions of buckwheat noodles in a lacquered bowl as possible in a limited time. A champion from a February competition held in the city finished 225 bowls of noodles in five minutes.
The competition is also popular in the Iwate capital of Morioka.
The city will host the events in the Arkansas city of Hot Springs, a sister city of Hanamaki, on Wednesday, and in New York on Saturday, where the association of Iwate expatriates marked the 10th anniversary.
I have not been able to find any details online about the Arkansas or New York contests.
Hatsuyo Sugawara, the top woman in the recent “Gluttonous King” contest, won the February contest
India, Hawaii, PA contest results
Ramadan Haleem Eating Contest, Hyderabad, India
The winner of the competition was Mohammad Saleem who managed to eat two kilograms of Haleem in 30 seconds.
“I am feeling really good. They gave us two minutes to finish it but I don’t know in how much time I finished that much,” said Saleem.
An eatery in the city, called ‘Pista House’, started organising this competition in 2003 with vegetarian versions of Haleem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The owner of eatery said he organised the competition despite recent terror attacks in the city to ease tension among residents.
“We have organised this competition to make people feel a little relaxed,” said M. A. Majeed, organiser of the competition.
1000 Year Old Egg Eating contest, Hawaii, winner was V. Ginny Young
Wing Fling, St. Mary’s PA, winner appears to be female despite having the name Chris “Bubba” Young
Gluttonous King 2007 final round on youtube
The final round of this year’s Gluttonous King contest, in which Shirota, Yamamoto and “the Artist” competed, has been uploaded to youtube. It will probably not be there very long so watch it soon if you are interested.
Yomiuri.co reports that the program received a 19.7% audience share, which peaked at 28.8% just after “Gal” Sone was eliminated.
Shirota repeats as gluttonous king & retires
The kakinaguri blog has the results of today’s “Gluttonnous King” contest:
1. Nobuyuki Shirota
2. Takuya Yamamoto
3. The “Artist”
4. Sugawara, 1st woman to defeat Gal Sone in a Gluttonous King / Queen contest
5T. Natsuko “Gal” Sone
5T. Sakura Takahashi
7 Yuko Siyouzi
Shirota announced his retirement after the contest. If he follows throught with it, Kobayashi will be the last eater remaining from the golden age of Japanese competitive eating. Shirota has a statement about his retirement on his blog.
Gluttonous King 2007 web page
This year’s “Gluttonous King” contest will be televised on Sunday night, and a web page for that program has been set up. The competitors displayed on the page are Gal Sone, Giant Shirota, Takuya Yamamoto, the Artist and newcomer Sakura Takahashi.
US / Japan pumpkin contest televised
The pumpkin contest between teams from the United States and Japan was broadcast today and R Suzuki has a blog entry about the program
US / Japan pumpkin contest to air Sept 8
The calendar for Japanese channel TBS says that the pumpkin contest between teams from Japan and the United States will be broadcast on September 8 at 7 pm (Japanese time)
19:00 [yaredeki]! The worldwide [ze] it is from the worldwide large challenge ~ enormous pumpkin enormous rammer to the refrigerator of the king the [bu] to eat, exhaust special
Canady/Menchetti ticket wins Rhode Island
The Kent County Times has an article about the pumpkin contest in Rhode Island between mixed gender pairs from the United States and Japan which describes the origin of the event:
Emi Umeda, who works with the production crew, said the name of the show translates to “Anything is possible,” and she said the point of the show is to take a topic, find who’s best in the world at it and challenge them to a contest against Japan.
One of the topics is a pumpkin-eating contest, she said, which will pit two professional American eaters against two professional Japanese eaters, making their way through five different pumpkin dishes.
In order to get started, the show wanted to find who held the record for growing the largest pumpkin in the world, which happened to be Coventry resident Ron Wallace, who owns a farm at 860 Plainfield Pike.
The American female made her competitive debut according to the article:
The Japanese contestants are Tomoko Miyake and Nobuyuki Shirota and the American contestants are “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti of Wallingford, Conn., and Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Kennedy from Florida.
“This is my first time doing this,” Kennedy said. “I made some inquiries on the Internet just out of curiosity and interest and they gave me a call.”
The article verifies reports of a US victory:
Since it may be difficult for American viewers to tune into the show to see the results, St. Jean said the American team ended up easily outpacing the team from Japan.
update BigPumpkins.com has some pictures of the contest (bottom of page) One of the pictures is captioned:
At the Wallaces on August 21, 2007, Gentleman Joe, urges his teamate to down more Pumpkin Lobster and Pumpkin pizza. She ate an entire Large Pumpkin Pizza and 2 lb Pumpkin Lobster in 3 minutes. But that was just the appetizer.
update #2 The BigPumpkins.com message board has some threads about the contest: Thread 1, Thread 2, Thread 3
update #3 Dec 26, 2007 The quoted article spelled Elizabeth’s last name incorrectly. The correct spelling is Canady.
Gal Sone goes to China
Xinhuanet reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone went to Guangzhou, China to compete in an eating contest.
AICE news reports US duo wins 4 of 5 RI pumpkin contests
From AICE news:
As predicted by Chairman Chowhound Chapman, Gentleman Joe Menchetti and Elizabeth “Rubber-Gut” Cassidy defeated the great Shirota and Miyake in decisive fashion at the Wallace Pumpkin Farm in Rhode Island. It seems that Gentleman Joe Menchetti who cannot be beaten by man or beast in the pumpkin disciplines and the unknown “Queen Guttress” (stay tuned America, you will be finding out more about this amazing female Eater in the near future) put down the proverbial hammer as they won four of the five contests.
Delhi mango eating contest
Esben Agersnap has a blog entry about the women’s division of the mango eating contest with several pictures at the Delhi Mango Festival in India.
“Gluttonous King” rookie women’s qualifier videos
A space in this fall’s “Gluttonous King” contest has been reserved for a novice female competitor. The qualifier for this slot, which was won by Mio “Sakura” Takahashi, can be viewed at http://youtube.com/user/euromach2 Gal Sone serves as a co-MC.
New Delhi mango contest results
Hindu.com reports on a mango eating contest held at the Mango Festival in New Delhi, India:
In the mango eating competition for men and women, the first prize carried a cash component of Rs.3,000 and the second prize of Rs.2,000. In the women’s category Anita Chowdhary won the first prize for eating 1.392 kg of mango pulp and Asha Sood who managed to eat 1.298 kg of mango pulp bagged the second prize.
The mango eating competition for men that was held on Sunday saw a more competitive fight.
Shabil Khan won the first prize for eating 1.626 kg of mango pulp and the second prize was bagged by Deepak Grover who ate1.572 kg of mango pulp.
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