Upcoming Thailand eating contests
Thailand eating challenges
Nat vs Food had the highest point total after 8 contests over this weekend in Thailand to win a spot in the Nathan's finals.
The first Nathan's qualifier of 2024 is being held in Thailand this weekend. Thailand Food Kingdom is holding 8 eating contests from March 22 to 24. The competitor with the most points at the end of the event will receive a spot in the finals. Nat vs Food is currently the leader. Zense Entertainment is livestreaming the contests.
BK Magazine has an article about Raina Huang's recent two week trip to Thailand.
Nat vs Food ate 10.875 bowls of katsudon in 8 minutes and Miki Sudo ate 368 fish balls in 8 minutes to win the first two contests at Thailand Food Kingdom in Bangkok. The venue will hold 6 more competitions this weekend.
Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Zosan Pacpac and Thai competitive eaters will face off in Thailand Food Kingdom, a series of 8 eating contests that will be held in Bangkok from August 4 to 6.
Koktail has an interview with Thai twins Pong and PUn Harnharuiharn. Their food challenge youtube channel TheFadd currently has 789K subscribers.
On his Instagram, Joey Chestnut posted a picture of a 11 pound burger in Phuket, Thailand, which he ate in less than 20 minutes.
Russian competitive eater/bodybuilder arrested in Thailand
The Daily Mail reports that Russian competitive eater/bodybuilder Sergey Medvedev was arrested in Thailand on February 2. He is the alleged co-founder of the cybercrime organization “Infraud”, which has defrauded $530 million from Americans since 2010 according to federal prosecutors. The arrest followed a two year probe by the US Justice Department and Medvedev is expected to be extradited to the USA in about a month. “The Bear” labeled himself “the first Russian competitive eater” on his Instagram and had a youtube channel devoted to food challenges and strength training. update The FBI claims that Medvedev possessed over $800 million worth of bitcoins at the time of his arrest. (Bangkok Post article about arrest)
Joey Chestnut announces that he failed a 10kg (22 lbs.) curry rice challenge at Gold Curry in Bangkok, Thailand. The prize for finishing the challenge is 100,000 yen or about $950.
Woman's Day NZ has an interview of Nela Zisser in which she discusses being diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. In her latest video, she takes on the 2kg curry challenge at Gold Curry in Bangkok.
Nela Zisser appeared Australia's Daily Edition to talk about her latest video where she ate 10 scorpions in Thailand. She hopes to surpass Yuka Kinoshita's mark of 62 McDonalds burgers in an upcoming video. (Daily Mirror article)
Gold Curry in Bangkok, Thailand reports that Nela Zisser finished the 2kg curry challenge in 8:37.
The Bangkok Post has an article about competitive eating in Thailand containing interviews with members of the Thai Pro Eater group.
Leah Shutkever finished the burger challenge in 7 minutes at Stacked Samui in Bophut, Thailand to set a house record.
A program titled The Battle of the Big Eaters - World Championships was recorded in New York City today near Times Square. A woman representing Japan and a man representing Thailand faced off in a spaghetti eating contest. update May 10 Today's filming will take place on Randall's Island update May 11 It appears Molly Schuyler is representing the USA according to this Instagram video., Tomoko Miyake, Ayari Sato and Takuya Yamamoto are Japanese competitors. update May 12 The finals - USA v Japan are recording in Times Square today. It appears Stephanie Torres is on team USA.
Kandy Hoa ate a 2.5 kg burger in 14 minutes to take the lead in Biggest Burger contest at 25 Degreesin Bangkok.
Vitthaya Morawong posted a picture of Joey Chestnut at Gold Curry in Bangkok, where he finished a 6kg (13.2 lb.) curry challenge in 27:30 on November 18, 2013 according to the restaurant's facebook. Joey says he intends to attempt the 10kg challenge in the future.
Kotaku has a blog entry about the curry challenges at Gold Curry in Japan (there is also a Bangkok location). The challenge meal sizes range from 2kg (4.4 lb) to 10kg (22.2 lb). The largest challenge awards 100000 Yen ($952) if finished (this is the heaviest single person eating challenge). (via @swoatt)
The Phuket News reports that Russian tourist Svetlana Makovskaya ate 12 pieces of cake to win the Royal Phuket City (Thailand) Hotel’s cake eating contest. Defending champion Kanit Yingpitpor ate 10 pieces.
Val Bromann has a blog entry about the hot dog eating contest she organized in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Val Bromann has posted her report & gallery on the CP Biggest Eater finals in Thailand.
MyCPBrand has a video with footage of the Thailand qualifier and finals for CP Biggest Eater.
CP Biggest Eater Thailand qualifier links
- Val Bromann’s blog entry about her post-contest activities with Crazy Legs Conti, Erik Denmark and Matt Stonie
- Val Bromann watches the Super Bowl Monday morning with Crazy Legs and Erik Denmark
- Matt Stonie’s post-contest report
- Full contest video from Matt Stonie
- First Round Thai galleries: January 8 | January 15
- Results are available on the contest result page. The top Thai, Chotiwit Niwatdechbordin (138), was just two behind Crazy Legs Conti’s total (140). The top four male & female Thais got to compete in the finals next week.
Razor TV has two videos recorded at the CP Biggest Eater finals: Interview w/ Joey Chestnut & Sonya Thomas, clip about Singaporean winners.
CP Biggest Eater Finals links
- Soshiok article focusing on Singaporean winners
- Channel NewsAsia facebook post
- CP Brand facebook gallery
- Bangkok Post article
- update Feb 17 RazorTV video about the Singaporean winners
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