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Carmen Torres reports that Stephanie Torres and Aaron Ybarra set the record for the 28 inch pizza challenge at Red Devil Pizza in Granada Hills with a time of 7:18, breaking Ben Monson and Damon Wells record of 8:15. (video) update Naader Reda reports that Stephanie Torres and Damon Wells set the record at Valenti's Pizza in Victorville, CA earlier this month (video).
The facebook for Sushi Delight in Lomita, California announces that Stephanie Torres set a record of 11 minutes for the Godzilla roll challenge. Stephanie completed the spicy sushi challenge after finishing the Godzilla roll.
The Subway in Fountain Valley, California will hold an eating contest on Saturday awarding a Wii to the winner.
The White Rabbit food truck will hold a 6 pound burrito eating challenge at the Valley Food Truck Fest in Encino, CA on Saturday.
Santa Monica Closeup reports that "Furious" Pete Czerwinski won a contest held at Muscle Beach on Labor Day with a total of 22 hot dogs. The contest received a brief mention on MyFoxLA.
Rafu Shimpo has produced a video about the 2010 gyoza eating contest held at Nisei Week in Los Angeles.
Eva Longoria brought a giant pizza from Big Mama's & Papa's to a recent party. (via Big Mama's & Papa's twitter)
The facebook for EFX reports that US Sumo Champion "Sumo" Dan Kalbfleisch will be compete against "Furious" Pete Czerwinski in the Muscle Beach Hot Dog Eating Challenge on September 6.
Full results for this year's gyoza contest are available on ifoce.com. Chikara Omine, who tied for the top amateur spot, is a successful ultramarathoner who has won a 50 mile race.
Ben Monson wins 2010 Los Angeles gyoza contest
updateThe Gyoza top 3 from the eating contest twitter
Ben Monson 189, ends Joey Chestnut’s 4 year streak
Erik “The Red” Denmark 134
Kevin Ross 116
Omniblast has a picture of the contest
The gyoza contest should start at 4:30 eastern, 1:30 Pacific.
The Rafu Shimpo has a preview of tomorrow's gyoza eating contest at Nisei Week in Los Angeles.
The facebook page for Saturday's Day-Lee Foods Nisei Week Gyoza Eating Championship in Los Angeles lists all the expected professional and amateur entrants.
The MLE facebook lists some entrants in Saturday's gyoza eating contest at the Nisei Week in Los Angeles: Ben Monson, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Erik "the Red" Denmark, Damon Wells and Kevin Ross.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski's facebook announces that he will participate in a hot dog eating contest in Venice Beach, California on Labor Day (September 6).
LA Downtown News lists Ben Monson and Eric "Badlands" Booker as expected entrants in the August 21 gyoza contest. Joey Chestnut has not confirmed, probably because he will be at the San Francisco Street Food Festival that day.
Tonight's episode of the Japanese program "World Bullet Traveler" features Natsuko "Gal" Sone's trip to Los Angeles. According to the shopping list, she did not purchase any big meals.
LosAngeles.craigslist.org has a request to record a training session of a southern California competitive eater.
LA competitive eaters wanted for Jimmy Kimmel
An associate producer for Jimmy Kimmel Live has emailed the following request:
Hello there! I am looking for competitive eaters in the Los Angeles area to participate in a live bit for our show (possibly tomorrow night). We are doing special shows for the NBA Finals and want to set up a competition… the catch is: they will be attempting to eat a basketball.
If you could help me in any way, I would greatly appreciate it. Let me know. Thanks!
email jkl176@yahoo.com if you are interested
update June 16 The casting director has more info:
We are looking for 2 people to eat an actual basketball. The basketball will be shredded into little pieces. I don’t know of anyone who would be willing to do that since it’s not food.
IFOCE.com reports that registration for the August 21 gyoza eating contest in Los Angeles and August 28 Rocky Mountain Oyster eating contest in Black Hawk, Colorado will open Wednesday.
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.
LA Weekly has a preview of today's pizza eating contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti.
Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria has a gallery of the first successful 54 x 54 inch pizza challenge attempt.
The twitter for Big Mama's pizza in Los Angeles reports that the 54 inch pizza challenge was completed for the first time today by a 7 person team, resulting in a $1000 award. Pictures of the challenge (with the identity of several members hidden) are available.
twitter.com/amethystone11: "I need 2 more people on my team to finish a 54X54 inch pizza in 2 hours, $1000 award"
The team size for the 54 inch pizza challenge awarding $1,000 at Big Mama's & Papa's pizza in Los Angeles will be increased by one to seven next week.
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