R Suzuki reports that Sakura Takahashi won a qualifer for a spot this fall’s “Gluttonous King” contests which was restricted to novice females. In her blog, Ms. Takahashi announces that she intends to use her prominence as a competitive eater to promote environmental awareness: (automatically translated)

As for me, the habit of being connected to protecting such terrestrial environment, it has becoming aware first in everyone, and that really it can have practicing, doing the kind of activity which is appealed to keep it would like, that thinks that anyone can practice simply.

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RecordChina has a picture and article from a corn eating contest held in Wuhan, China last Saturday. A 60 year old grandmother came in second place in that event.

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teakdoor.com has a forum thread with pictures about a crocodile egg eating contest held at the Pattaya Crocodile Farm. Khun Nopanan claimed a prize of 10,000 baht by winning the contest. Gal Sone’s rival, “Queen” Pimu, did apparently not compete.

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A potsticker eating contest on Korean television between Tomoko Miyake and the Korean boy band Super Junior can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Nndgxav5hI

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A video clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone competing against eaters in a Kanom Krok (coconut rice cake) eating contest in Thailand can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6al0incPBw The female Thai champion leads Gal Sone through much of the contest.

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Tomoko Miyake has written several blog entries about the “Gluttonous Queen” contest televised last Sunday in which she was the runner-up. While competing, Tomoko befriended 6th place finisher Saori Nakayama (仲山沙織), who blogged about her experiences in that event at http://blog.livedoor.jp/nakayama_saori1980/.

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Natsuko “Gal” Sone was not the only entrant in Sunday’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest with dyed blonde hair. Aki Ikeda, who has the nickame Gal Ikeda (ギャル æ± ç”° 亜紀) also sported non-natural hair coloring (she also has the nickname girayunee (ギャルネエ) ). Ikeda finished 5th overall and reportedly is missing a front tooth, which might facilitate bone stripping in a chicken wing eating contest.

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TVRaiting.blog77.fc2.com reports that yesterday’s showing of “Gluttonous Queen II” received a 14.2% audience share. This compares favorably to the audience shares received by the current NCAA college basketball tournament (10% – 16% according to zap2it.com

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An extended version (about 2 and a half minutes) of a one minute news clip of Sonya Thomas at a contest in Hong Kong has been uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7StSPWwlJtc

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herpdaddy watched last night’s “Gluttonous Queen II” contest and wrote a blog entry in English about it (he also has some funny Japanese T shirts with English on them in his post.) He reports about the final noodle contest:

So she made it to the final round with 2 other women both equally thin and the final round was ramen noodles. Mmmm. I mean, it’s GOOD but how much can you really eat? Apparently an incredible amount. Each serving was a standard sized serving but they got a break. So they don’t burn themselves, they did not have to drink the soup. But they did have to eat all of the noodles and the major toppings including a thin slice of Chinese roast pork.

I have to admit, I was glued to the TV. I mean, it’s just 3 girls pigging out but it was just amazing how much they were able to put away.

In the end, Gal Sone won for the 2nd year in a row with 16 bowls of ramen in 1 hour. Eeeeeeeeesh…

Tomoko Miyake came in second (possibly tying with another woman) with 14 bowls. I believe that Suguwara was removed by medical personel (like “The Artist” was in last fall’s gluttonous king contest), but I am not sure about that. Hopefully R Suzuki will have a full writeup.

“Gluttonous Queen” produced a conflict over television watching in one household last night: (automatically translated by Google)

… Because with the father tried to change the channel into the gluttonous queen championship of TV Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd.,
Me “just a little! Just a little just a little!! Unless Michael [huerupusu] (Phelps) you see, []!!!”

So is. The gold medal 7 crown it is instantaneous!!!
It is enormous the ~~~!!! It is enormous as the same human the ~~~!!!
You were impressed. . .

Gluttonous queen* However also the gal 曽 root is enormous, – (. _.)

update laana.jp has full results (in Japanese)

1, (“ギャル” 曽根菜津子) Natsuko “Gal” Sone
2. (三宅智子) Tomoko Miyake
3. (正司優子) Yuuko Siyouzi
4, (嘉数千恵) “Nurse”
5. (池田亜紀) Aki Ikeda
6. (仲山沙織) Saori
7. (菅原初代) Suguwara (disqualified by doctor after winning Round 1)
8. (山下尚穂) Yamashita

update #2 R Suzuki has uploaded her recaps: Part 1 , Part 2

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An English language news video clip from 2006 about Indian hot pepper eating champion, Anandita Dutta Tamuli, who is currently trying to gain entrance into the Guinness Book of Records can be viewed at http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videos.aspx?id=5897

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Reuters blogs has an entry and a video about a hands free pasta eating contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel last Friday.

Though he won a year’s supply of pasta, it’s likely the winner will have to remove it from his house. The Jewish holiday of Passover is celebrated in just over two weeks time and those who celebrate the holiday are not allowed to have foods made from flour and bread in their homes.

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Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang it would be you.

Homer Simpson

(From Reuters) If Homer (and Marge) Simpson had competed an eating contest for couples in Guangzhou, China, he could have had all the tang (yuan) he wanted. Tang yuan are sticky rice dumplings. The winning couple ate 204 dumplings in 5 minutes, which weighed either 2.5 kg or 4 kg.

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A Japanese blogger is currently on vacation in Hawaii, and s/he saw a television crew recording Natsuko “Gal” Sone competing in the “Gluttonous Queen” contest on Waikiki Beach. The contest will be televised later this month or in April. It is too bad that apparently no American women were invited to compete.

Exactly recording the gluttonous king decisive game being done at the Waikiki beach, it increased.

The gal 曽 root it was.

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A women’s eating contest from Chinese television can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j9gmk8OIBs

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newindpress.com reports that Sridhar, son of Shanmugham, a 29 year old from a village near Sathyamangalam in Erode district died from breathing complications after eating 20 rice cakes in an idli eating competition. Sridhar is believe to be an epilepsy patient.

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R Suzuki reports that Sugawara won the Iwate noodles contest on Sunday by eating 225 small cups of noodles on 5 minutes. Sugawara won the regional qualifying tournament for this spring’s “Gluttous Queen” contest. A news video of the contest can be viewed at http://news.tvi.jp/wvx/16226/video.wvx Each entrant has a personal noodle refiller who is busy throughout the contest. Yama3 wrote a blog entry about his 6th place finish. He received an award for best technique.

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R Suzuki has a report on the first and second round qualifiers for the 2007 “Gluttonous Queen” contest. Contests were held in Hokkaido, Fukuoka, Shikoku and Nagoya. The winners of those events then competed for a spot in the finals. Sugawara won that contest and will appear in the finals that will be televised in the spring. Sugawara, a 43 year old from Morioko, came in second in a noodle contest in November to “The Artists” and had the best ever performance by a woman in the 21 year history of that event.

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R Suzuki reports that team eating contests were held during a New Year’s Day television special. The West team had Gal Sone and Takuya Yamamoto while the East team had Nobuyuki Shirota and Tomoko Miyake. The teams also contained some other celebrities. Men’s, women’s and mixed gender contests were held. The mixed gender contest was a 30 minute sushi contest which was won by the Galsone (154 pieces) / Yamamoto (174 pieces) team.

Tomoko Miyake reports about competing in the event in her blog.

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ibnlive.com reports that Kurian “Theeta” Rappai of Thrissur, India died Saturday morning. The English translation of “Theeta” is big eater and he earned his nickname by forcing restaurants to drop their all you can eat specials. The article claims that Rappai once ate 15kg (33 lb.) of pudding in one meal. Reports of Rappai’s age vary. ibnlive says he was 65 while newindpress claims he was 63. Rappai retired from big eating this summer due to diabetes and other health issues. sarathc’s father knew Rappai and he describes the time Rappai exacted revenge on a buffet that charged prices different from what was listed on the menu.

updated The Peninsula has an article about Rappai stating he was 67. The life expectancy for Indians is 60 – 61 years.

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Kobayashi has posted a contest report and a trip report about Sunday’s mutton eating contest in Taiwan.

updated A Chinese language news clip of the contest is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPvgD6BCBY Kobayashi ate using chopsticks.

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Google News has several Chinese articles reporting that Takeru Kobayashi won a mutton eating contest by eating 5.5 kg (12.1 lb.) of mutton in 24 minutes. The runner up ate 2.7 kg of mutton.

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The Krystal Square Off was not Kobayashi’s last contest of 2006. He will do a contest in Taiwan on Sunday.

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Metacafe has a clip of a 20 foot sushi roll eating contest between Takako Akasaka and Misao Fujita that was held in a bowling alley. A brief segment of that contest appeared in Takako Akasaka’s career highlights video which was available for a short time on youtube. The contest has narration in English, but the narrator provides nothing but insults.

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The best Halloween themed competitive eating blog is maintained by “Deresque” Matsumuto. Deresque finished second to Natsuko “Gal” Sone in a noodle eating contest this past weekend.

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