Raina Huang, Derek Hendrickson and Blaine Koenig will compete in a hot eating contest at Dirt Dog in Las Vegas on August 29.
Joel Hansen recently completed the 72 ounce steak challenge at The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX in 12:24, which is believed to be a Canadian record. Raina Huang also attempted the challenge and finished in 24:41. (video)
Raina Huang's 96 ounce steak challenge video was posted on the UNILAD facebook page and has received almost 5 million views in 4 hours.
Raina Huang ate a Jimmy John's Gargantuan sub in 1:08 to defend her CrossFAT title. YourManCody also defended his title in the scaled division, finishing a half sub in 0:53 to edge out El Toro Jiminez who finished in 1 minute even.
Raina Huang posted a video of herself eating a large Domino's Brooklyn style pizza in 1:20 to win CrossFAT 20-6. "El Toro" Jiminez, winner of the previous CrossFAT contest, was runner up with a time of 1:34. "Your Man Cody" won the scaled (half-pizza) division with a time of 1:00. update Raina has posted her video
A commenter claimed that Raina Huang sped up her video to qualify for the Round Table Pizza Reign of Fire challenge finals. The video had background music added (contest rules require that the unedited video must be submitted.) (Youtube video)
Raina Huang competed in Jack in the Box Tiny Taco eating contest in an advertisement produced by BuzzFeed Video.
Raina Huang & Asian Hustle Network in LA Times
Raina Huang is featured prominently in a Los Angeles Times article about the Asian Hustle Network. Her father, Wil Huang, is also quoted:
Her new gig as a competitive eater and social media influencer — she’s the star of 600-plus videos — finally has won her father’s approval.
“I’m actually surprised with her character right now, once I got used to her choice,†Wil Huang, an IT engineer, said about his eldest daughter.
Raina Huang was challenged to eat 15 pounds of milk & cookies in a video for Buzzfeed's "Bring Me" series.
The twitter for Russia Today posted an excerpt from a Raina Huang video where she attempted an eight pound sushi roll at Octopus Restaurant in Glendale, CA. The tweet currently has 364 comments.
On Friday, Raina Huang won the dumpling eating contest at the Dumpling and Beer Festival in San Gabriel, CA for the third year in a row. Taran Eckel was runner up.
Independent.com has an interview with Raina Huang about competing in æbleskiver eating contests during the Danish Days Celebration in Solvang, CA this weekend.
Raina Huang ate 14 hot dogs in 3 minutes to win the first prize of $200 in Sunday's hot dog eating contest at Down and Out in Los Angeles.
Raina Huang won the first prize of $500 in tonight's vegan hot dog eating contest at the Vegan Playground in San Diego.
MiLB.com has an article about the Inland Empire 66ers renaming themselves the "California Burritos" for their May 25 game which included a five pound burrito eating contest won by Raina Huang.
Tasty has a video about the construction of giant chicken nuggets and fries for Raina Huang to attempt to eat.
Raina Huang attempts the Orochon Ramen challenge on the latest episode of the Asian food show "Family Style".
Raina Huang attempted a 7 pound dumpling in a video for Food Insider.
Voyage LA Magazine has an interview with Raina Huang.
Raina Huang attempted the burger challenge at Oh My Burger in Gardena, CA in a video produced by ABC Localish.
Raina Huang's attempt at the burrito challenge at Tirsa's in Los Angeles made ABC's "Bite Size" series.
Raina Huang has surpassed 100,000 youtube subscribers, making her the first American female competitive eater to attain that benchmark.
Raina Huang ate 80 wings in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in last night's wing eating contest at Wing Nuts in Costa Mesa, CA. Kevin Ross was the runner up with 74 wings.
Foodbeast has a post about Raina Huang eating 13 plates (10.5 pounds) of Olive Garden pasta, which is believed to be a house record.
KSBY did a segment about Raina Huang's tour of central California, which will conclude today. (video)
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