Japanese New Year’s Day competitive eating
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.
More Gal Sone Wednesday morning clips
New clips of Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s Wednesday morning contests have been uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN2y50lFAUM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7Kju54kFw
Another clip from the Japanese supersized meals show
A clip of the entire segment of the 3.5 kg noodle contest between Natsuko “Gal” Sone, Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Takako Akasaka from the Japanese supersized meals show has been posted to http://youtube.com/watch?v=9n3zXU6yJxI
Gal Sone sings (without eating)
(from R Suzuki) Natsuko “Gal” Sone appeared on a “Star Search” type program which can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb7127Fmx24. The judges thought her singing was better than her male opponent’s by a margin of 7 to 3. Gal Sone did not eat, but Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota had a sushi eating contest against the two female members of the three person team that beat Gal Sone in a shish kebab contest.
Gal Sone sings (or lip syncs)
A clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone singing (or lip syncing) on “Monomane Battle” can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zc1aMtbwh4 During an instrumental section, Gal Sone puts on a brief eating exhibition. “Monomane Battle” is a show in which people try to imitate celebrities. Laura Pasqualoni appeared on ‘Monomane Battle” as Mariah Carey.
update Gal Sone was trying to imitate Ayumi Hamasaki R Suzuki has a post about the appearance.
Gal Sone loses to 3 person team
(From R Suzuki) Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s Wednesday morning contest has been uploaded to youtube. Part 1, Part 2. Instead of competing against Nobuyuki Shirota, she faced a 3 person team in a shish kebab contest. The three person team rallied at the end to defeat the Gal 81 skewers to 80, winning them a prize of 100,000 Yen. ($851.57)
Gal Sone is 21
Natsuko “Gal” Sone is 21 today according to the information on her home page. This means that she is no longer prohibited from competing in the Wing Bowl by the age minimum. 😉
Youtube video of Gal Sone attempting 20 lb of noodles
A clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone attempting to eat 20 pounds (9 kg) of noodles is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=iurH9hU7ODY She does not finish it, but her weight is found to have increased to 50 kg (110 lb) after being 43 kg (95 lb.) before starting.
Gal Sone starts blogging
(from R Suzuki) Natsuko “Gal” Sone has started blogging on her home page
Gal Sone’s Love Mayo Diary opens
(from R Suzuki) A website called “Gal Sone’s Love Mayo Diary” recently opened to promote her appearance in an eating contest sponsored by Aoki’s Pizza. The restaurant is offering a mayonnaise pizza in her honor. There is also a slideshow of her personal appearance at Aoki’s Pizza
Most viewed youtube competitive eating videos
As far as I can tell, these are the most viewed competitive eating videos on youtube as of November 15
Gal Sone 40,000 calories, 319K views
Kobayashi – SNL TV Funhouse 122K views
Kobayashi vs. Bear, 99K views
Gal Sone vs. Shirota 6Kg curry, 85K views
End of 2004 Nathan’s finals 56K views
Kobayashi vs. Takako Akasaka Food Battle Club, 37K views
Kobayashi – Coffee Milk, Food Battle Club, 36K
Kobayashi at US Open, 28K views
Entirety of 2006 Nathan’s finals, 26K views
Gal Sone vs Shirota – 5kg udon, 23K views
Gal Sone gets an ultrasound examination
In a youtube video, Natsuko “Gal” Sone eats a mountain of curry and 75 pudding cups (after aiming for 100), then gets an ultrasound examination with a full stomach.
Gluttonous King clips reposted to youtube
Some clips from last month’s Gluttonous King program are available at http://youtube.com/results?search_query=oogui&search=Search TV Tokyo will have the clips removed when they find out about it, so what it soon if you are interested.
Gal Sone vs. “Atrocious Alliance”
(From R Suzuki) Gal Sone takes a break from competing with Shirota in her weekly contest to take on the “Atrocious Alliance”, a group of four people dressed like wrestlers in a sushi restaurant with a conveyor belt. Only one member of the alliance can eat at a time.
Gal Sone attempts to eat 1/5 her bodyweight
Natsuko “Gal” Sone attempted to eat 9 kg (20 lb) of noodles on Japanese television this weekend. It is not clear from the pictures if she finished them, but she appears to have come reasonably close if she didn’t.
Supersized Japanese meals (in regular sized bowls)
A clip from a program about supersized entrees served by Japanese restaurants is available on youtube. Some meals are served in conventionally sized bowls with messy results. The construction of a Japanese megaburger weighing 2.7 kg (6 lb) and costing 3675 Yen ($31) is displayed. Natsuko “Gal” Sone, Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Takako Akasaka make a cameo in which they attempt a large bowl of noodles.
Updated R Suzuki has a blog entry about the telecast, which was apparently part of a quiz show. The Monster Cafe is the restaurant where the BIG baga can be purchased.
Where every day is Oct 31
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.
Gal Sone takes the mike for Food Battle Stadiums 3
Food Battle Stadiums #3 was held this weekend in Japan. Gal Sone did not eat at that event, but served as the contest MC. She was late which resulted in the entire program being delayed 30 minutes. Nobuyuki Shirota and Tomoko Miyake ate in exhibitions but did not participate in the main contest.
Gal Sone vs. fried fish
Youtube has a clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone eating 300 pieces of fried fish. Japanese videos generally do not last very long on youtube, so if you have any desire to watch that, you should see it soon.
“Gal” Sone exceeds Kobayashi in Japanese blog mentions
Natsuko “Gal” Sone has moved past Takeru Kobayashi in number of Japanese blog entries retrieved by technorati thanks to over 200 entries about “Gal” Sone’s appearance in last Sunday’s “Gluttonous King” contest. Technorati currently returns 1964 Japanese blog posts about “Gal” Sone and 1800 about Takeru Kobayashi
Questionable decisions in “Gluttonous King”
A fan of male Japanese competitive eaters might feel the same way after Sunday’s “Gluttonous King” that a Seattle Seahawks fan did after the Super Bowl. In the 3rd round (barbecue shish kebabs) of “Gluttonous King,” Natsuko “Gal” Sone finished in last place, which should have resulted in elimination and a 5th place finish, but she was advanced to the 4th round anyway. She probably would have avoided a last place finish if she did not take the time to remove the meat from the skewer and eat it with chopsticks. I would appreciate if a Japanese speaker could tell me if the announcers provided a reason why “Gal” Sone was not eliminated. As far as I can tell, the official explanation appears to be that they ran out of food, but the servers seemed to have no difficulty supplying the eaters with food up until the end of the contest.
In the fourth round (salmon) two eaters were to be eliminated since no one was dropped after the previous round. At the end of that contest “Gal” Sone was neck and neck with “the Artist” and appeared to be at approximately the same level of discomfort, but the doctor removed “the Artist” from the contest, advancing Ms. Sone to the final round.
A commenter to the “Much & Fast” blog claims to be the second place finisher in the Osaka qualifier. He did not make the finals because TV Tokyo took the top four finishers from the Tokyo qualifier, enabling Tomoko Miyake to advance.
Gluttonous King 2006 results: 1) Shirota 2) Yamamoto 3) Gal-sone
From Much & Fast
“Gluttonous King” final:
1) Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota
2) Takuya Yamamoto, fails to threepeat
3) Natsuko “Gal” Sone
4) – 6) ?
7) Tomoko Miyake – ate french fries with chopsticks while everyone else uses hands, later
drops chopsticks
Shirota has an entry about his victory in his blog.
updated R Suzuki has round by round results: Part 1, Part 2
Videos of the preliminary round can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ec4s
Part 1 – Tokyo preliminary round
Part 2 – Osaka preliminary round
Part 3 – Shirota does a restaurant’s eating challenge cheered on by his groupies
Part 4 – Yamamoto works out in a boxing gym
Part 5 – Gal Sone meditates in a Buddhist temple
Part 6 – 1st round – french fry eating contest in Hokkaido farm
Gluttonous King 2006 to be televised October 1
TV Tokyo will televise the 2006 edition of “Gluttonous King” (more information) this Sunday. The contest is open to both male & female eaters. Yamamoto will attempt to defend his 2005 title and Gal Sone will look to better her 6th place finish from last year. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Tomoko Miyake will also compete.
Gal Sone reality show clip on youtube
First round of 2005 “Gluttonous King” available on youtube
The first round of the 2005 “Gluttonous King” contest televised on TV Tokyo has been uploaded to youtube. Natsuko “Gal” Sone avoided elimination by eating 6 grams more of bread than Miyuki Iwata.
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