The world’s first blogging female competitive eater
Tomoko Miyake has become the first female competitive eater to start a blog that I am aware of, which is located at blog.miyaketomoko.com
Japanese female competitive eater news
(Since some readers don’t care for posts about Japanese eaters not named Kobayashi, I will combine these links into a single post to make them easier to ignore)
Miyuki Iwata has an interview (in English) from after her victory in Shanghai.
Tomoko Miyake has a video (apparently some type of audition tape). Toro has a translation of the transcript.
Natsuko “Gal” Sone was crowned “King” after completing 5 eating challenges at gansotorokatsu curry. It took her only 2 days to complete all five challenges.
Tomoko Miyake launches personal web site
Tomoko Miyake (三宅智å), the fourth place finisher in April’s “gluttonous queen” contest has launched a personal website at miyaketomoko.com , making her the first Japanese female competitive eater with a home page. The website lists Tomoko’s birth year as 1958 (the last two digits should probably be reversed)
Tomoko Miyake AERA magazine profile
This week’s edition of AERA magazine (published by the Asahi Tribune) has a profile of Miyake Tomoko, the 4th place finisher in the “Gluttonous Queen” contest. Miyake’s listed weight of 77 lb (35 kg) makes Sonya Thomas and “Gal” Sone appear amazonic in comparison. The blog for Miyake’s favorite restaurant has an entry announcing the publication of the article
Natsuko “Gal” Sone eats 17.6 pounds in eating challenge
The blog for Gansotorokatsu Curry, a restaurant famous for its eating challenges, reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone ate 8kg or 17.6 pounds of food at that establishment and still had enough room left over for ice cream. Tomoko Miyake, the 4th place finisher in the “Gluttonous Queens” contest, dined with Sone but could only eat 5kg or 11 pounds. Kenji Aoki, who arranged the sushi contest described in “Horsemen of the Esophagus”, was the third member of the party. Aoki has a very detailed website about oogui. Jason Fagone’s book states that Aoki was engaged as of early 2005. It would be interesting to learn how Aoki’s wife/fiancee viewed his dinner with Sone and Miyake.
Oogui 2006 : Gluttonous Queen of Japan
I have been able to track down information about the Japanese television series about female competitive eaters I wrote about earlier this week. The show, Oogui 2006, is broadcast on TV Tokyo and the second episode will be televised Sunday night. (The program debuted on Tuesday.) The program’s home page is http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/oogui2006/ (Google translation) If Japanese competitive eating can command 2 hours of broadcast television in prime time Sunday night, it cannot be doing that badly.
In the contest, seven competitors are chosen from two qualifiers and then a series of contests are held which eliminate the last place finisher until only the champion remains. A similar event open to both genders was held last fall. Three qualifiers in the women’s contest also qualified for the open contest: Miyuki Iwata, Tomoko Mikaye, and Natsuko “The Gal” Sone. I am assuming that no slots in the open contest were reserved for women. Those three are the favorites for the women’s contest. Iwata is generally considered the top Japanese female competitive eater after Takako Akasaka (she lost the 2005 Tokyo Nathan’s qualifier by just one hot dog), but “The Gal” has more “upside” because she is only 19 while Iwata is 32. (I hope to write individual posts about the above three competitors later this week.)
Japanese Blog entries about the contest can be found at: Everyday of the R sea bass gluttony (Google translation) and Much & Fast (Google translation)
Click below for screen captures from the contest and additional information
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