Joey Chestnut defeats Kobyashi in Singapore
update May 12
News Channel Asia interview with Juliet Lee
CPBrand galleries: press conference | contest
KlikTV has a video
update May 10 VoxSports videos and galleries
Reuters video
soshiok article about Juliet Lee
The MLE facebook reports that Joey Chestnut (380 wontons in 8 minutes) defeated Takeru Kobayashi (370) in Singapore. I think this is Kobayahi’s first loss in Asia since the 2002 Food Battle Club. Juliet Lee (160 wontons) won the women’s division.
update Bernama and Channel News Asia have articles and Road Runner has a gallery (via gastroboy)
update #2 BBC News has an article and video, ETribune has a news video and Sen028 has contest footage The BBC article says that Joey and Kobayashi will compete in a pizza contest before Nathan’s
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Ray said
May 9, 2010 @ 7:57 am
Nice win Joey
zack mle asia said
May 9, 2010 @ 9:29 am
takeru technique fails him… He tried to eat with a spoon initially but gave up the idea later in the game….
anonymous said
May 9, 2010 @ 9:32 am
No comments spell no interest
gastroboy said
May 9, 2010 @ 10:14 am
Can’t wait for a video of the contest. I still don’t believe it!
gastroboy said
May 9, 2010 @ 10:43 am
Koby used a spoon. He also lost against Shirota in Food Battle Club ‘using chopsticks rather than a fork’. In any case a weird choice :S.
http://www.rr.com/home/topicdl/photogallery/dlt/0dE8gbd2KC89R
King Wonton said
May 9, 2010 @ 11:57 am
That looked like a really fun contest. Poor Anon 9:32 wasn’t there so he’s still a little bitter. Looked like there was plenty of interest worldwide from the press conference video and photos.
Andrew Kossuth said
May 9, 2010 @ 2:17 pm
USA! USA! USA! USA!
gastroboy said
May 9, 2010 @ 4:28 pm
Kobayashi was already full at the beggining of the contest, he just ate the first A in his name, that’s why he lost! Pshh OJ, KobAyashi!
Btw, some sites say Joey ate 385 and Koby 365. How can it be that there is always two or more different results in MLE contests? (i’m thinking about last year’s Krystals, i dunno how many Joey actually ate!)
Mano said
May 9, 2010 @ 5:21 pm
Impressive win Joseph. The drama for nathans is already heatin up
NReda said
May 9, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
Kobayashi’s once-mythic image keeps taking a beating.
Mega Munch said
May 9, 2010 @ 9:37 pm
ANOTHER win for Joey over Koby. How ’bout that.
Sammy Jackson said
May 10, 2010 @ 9:04 pm
Whatever with Kobe, Joey Is da man!
whatever said
May 11, 2010 @ 10:54 pm
Koby is always going to be the pioneer of this sport no matter what. Joey ate 380, Koby ate 370.. so who cares? Joey eats like a nasty beast. It’s gross. If you see his technique live, you never know what’s going in his mouth and what’s going in the air and on the floor. It will never be fair.
Koby can try spoons, fork, spatulas, chopsticks if he wants. He takes the risk of losing even to try other techniques – that’s why he’s great. He only challenges himself. He doesn’t care about winning or losing to Chestnut.
That guys a joke.
Tell Em Why you Mad said
May 11, 2010 @ 11:15 pm
@Whatever – you’re sounding like a communist right about now. that sounds like some bs made up to defend a losing effort. USA BIAIAIAIATCH!
“He doesn’t care about winning or losing to Chestnut.” <– WTF is that? are you Kobe's PR? how could you possibly know that. pure speculation on your part.
Not Enough Said said
May 12, 2010 @ 2:58 am
Koby is two of three in one on one competition against the world’s grossest, second most overrated eater.
Koby: Curry Chicken
Koby: P’zone
Jawey: Wonton
And in the latest major Koby destroyed Jawey by a dozen sliders.
Jawey has lost to Tim, Bob: many times, Pat: many times, and even a young upstart: Ben.
Yet, somehow he’s suppose to be the world’s greatest eater? Do you think the great Bob Shoudt could ever beat Koby at any food like he has handed Jawey’s ass to him at least four times?
Jawey is simply the Shea’s pet monkey right now. Once he falls from the top of the monkey bar cage he will be unceremoniously discarded.
Joey said
May 12, 2010 @ 7:47 am
It was a good contest and koby knew he lost. The fourth will be a great show down. I must thank every body for the support.
rona evans said
May 12, 2010 @ 8:07 am
Kobayashi is washed up, history. Wontons don”t matter, Coney does and three losses back to back. Whatever is right. Pat, Joey, X and Bob
Wow! said
May 12, 2010 @ 8:34 am
That looks like an incredible event. CP must have gone all out on this one. Makes me hungry just looking at the pictures:) Great job Joey. Kobay, and Juliet!
quirkyhill said
May 12, 2010 @ 8:45 am
lol i see my blog entry up there!
@gastroboy
i was there, kobayashi lost to chestnut 370 to 380! the emcee said the winner had eaten two more bowls of five wontons each.
quirkyhill said
May 12, 2010 @ 8:49 am
also, juliet lee didn’t win per se, she (just like chestnut and kobayashi) just took part as a honorary contestant alongside the singaporean eaters!
rona evans said
May 12, 2010 @ 9:13 am
The hate that protrudes on this site when it comes to my surrogate daugthers Sonya & Juliet MAKE ME SICK! I hope that one day i can forgive those that prey on the WEAK, for belittiting others to REINFORCE your own insecurities makes you less of a boy
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
May 12, 2010 @ 10:07 am
“Washed up” is accurate, actually, anonymous, 8:07.
Dry land the HDBs on July 4 and watch Koby regain the belt, just like he did the Krystal title.
Joey and others have figured out how to get credit for eating over 60 and 50 water-submerged HDBs, respectively, and it aint about increased stomach capacity either. It’s about creating David Blain- and David Copperfield-like illusions. Water is to food what a rabbit-laden hat is to magic tricks. And, I admit, Joey’s better at it than Koby.
CE magic at its finest.
Mega Munch said
May 12, 2010 @ 10:25 am
You make me think, Rhonda, and that’s what I like about your comments. Is there water-aided “magic” at work on Coney Island? How else do you explain someone eating 68 HOT DOGS in 10 minutes and breaking the old TWELVE minute record? I believe it’s the result of hard work, training and being driven by good competition, but part of me wouldn’t dismiss some crafty techniques at work.
anonymous said
May 12, 2010 @ 10:47 am
Rhonda Evans you are one of the few that appreciate good journalism and the fact that you visit Beautif brain site shows that you have good taste. OJ rifkin does not like BB anymore which is why he does not link any of his articles to this site. the only tyme he does that is wen he cant find a video on google relating to a MLE cotnest. Ernie
Harry Seaward said
May 12, 2010 @ 11:48 am
Kudos Mr Chestnut!
Certainly we will all be watching on July 4 to see if Koby can pull off the same trick he did at Krystals! A Nation depends on you.
anonymous said
May 12, 2010 @ 12:04 pm
Brian Seiken started it all the rest are copycats. If Brian is not given his just due, then its a crying shame of injustice. Most of you that disrespect him or have mean things to post about him never took the time to go on his site and marvel at his talents. He knows the eaters , he competes with the eaters he gets first hand info from the eaters. Where does OJ get his first hand info from? Google? Retreiving info from other eaters facebook or twitter pages? who does OJ know? Who does OJ compete with? For that matter who the hell is OJ?
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
May 12, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
Joey and Koby both are the two greatest eaters in the world. The crux of what I have issue with is the water part. Eating talent transcends the absence of water.
I believe the pressure to win is causing eaters to dispose of HDBs in ever-creative ways, and even though the contest time allotment decreases, totals still increase. In two years I wouldn’t be surprised to see Koby and Joey both blow by the 80-dog barrier, and the second tier HDB eaters (X and Pat) easily surpass 65 HDBs.
The talents of the more honest eaters, whose hearts grow heavy with nonlegitimate eating, are being penalized for not using water-proven tactics. That’s what hurts the most. Plus it’s so gross I change the channel after the introductions, of whom Sonya’s (I like Legs’ too) is my favorite of all time!
nunonabun2 said (Registered November 10, 2009)
May 12, 2010 @ 12:49 pm
water-proven tactics? tell me more.
Mega Munch said
May 12, 2010 @ 1:26 pm
You really turn the channel after the introductions, Rhonda? That’s hard to believe, but I know what you mean. The disgusting mess of soggy buns does more to turn people off of competitive eating than the eye-popping numbers do to turn people on to it (not that the latter is necessarily a “turn on” to most people).
So where do you surmise these extra HDBs are going if they’re not being eaten? Are there seven or eight buns worth of debris in the dunking cups? Does the equivalent of three or four buns fall in the stage in the form of soggy bits over the course of the 10 minutes (who can forget that infamous post-contest shot of the Nathan’s stage behind the table?) They have to at least be eating the hot dogs themselves, since it’s a little harder to hid those, right?
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
May 12, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
The buns become liquified, dissolving / falling apart in the cups of water. Of the bun soup that remains in the hand, en route to the mouth, about half of that falls on the table or on the ground. Some of what remains, is actually consumed.
If these guys had 12 minutes to apply these same 10-minute tactics they would easily surpass (get credited with) 80 HDBs … easily! They’re still not full after 10 minutes, and I’ve no doubt why.
I was born in the morning, but not yesterday morning.
Compare the increase in sloppiness of Nathan’s eaters from 1999 through 2005 with the cup-of-soup eaters the last 4 years. The contest nowadays grosses me out. I DO want to know the results, that’s for sure. But I want to stay interested, and I don’t want to begin disliking hot dogs.
So for those two reasons I don’t watch the finals.
Anonymous said
May 12, 2010 @ 4:39 pm
Half?
Give me a break.
Larellmarie said (Registered May 9, 2010)
May 12, 2010 @ 5:55 pm
Whatever & Not Enough Said- you must be either on drugs or in denial of reality. Joey is the number one eater IN THE WORLD for a reason – HE’S THE BEST!!!!! EZ for you to claim that it’s because Joey’s a “gross eater”; I’d like to see you eat the way you claim Joey does and still come up eating 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Don’t hate! 🙂
Anonymous said
May 12, 2010 @ 6:48 pm
I agree with Whatever and Not Enough Said. I guess I’m on drugs to, or maybe I’m just doing a stupid thing like telling it like it is.
gastroboy said
May 12, 2010 @ 7:22 pm
I don’t think that many hotdogs are lost on prupose. I wouldn’t go as far as saying that nobody cheats bc i’ve never competed at Nathan’s and i dunno. I don’t think that a lot of hotdogs are lost even unnintentionaly. Every eating style eventually makes some short of debris, and some eating styles are more prone to debris than others but not that much. It’s the eater ethics and his own choice to choice one way or another, as long as debris doesn’t build up to a point of being unfair.
A-Bomb said (Registered May 7, 2009)
May 12, 2010 @ 9:35 pm
Rhonda, even if a few buns are dissolving and a few more buns make up the debris they are still eating 68 hot dogs and 55 or however many buns. In 10 minutes. Surely you do not think the hot dogs dissolve as well. Yeah no doubt it’s sloppy but they can’t be hiding that much..
I wonder why Nathan’s ever allowed the dunking or didn’t put a stop to it…At least Krystal saw the light and realized what was going on with their food was pretty gross to viewers. Nathan’s should go no dunking and no separating. How many people eat their hot dogs the way they are eaten at Coney? None. I know AICE would be all over this, but it makes sense.
Larellmarie said (Registered May 9, 2010)
May 12, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
Anon 648 ur words not mine 🙂 Curious as to how many pro hot dog eatn contest u hv under ur belt? lol
Anonymous said
May 12, 2010 @ 10:40 pm
more than u 🙂
Larellmarie said (Registered May 9, 2010)
May 13, 2010 @ 4:08 am
Anon 1040 – I am sure, without a doubt, that you do; just curious!
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
May 13, 2010 @ 8:24 am
The bottom line is that with nondunking events you get a truer indication of CE talent. Food drinking turns CE into more of a gross-out, a side show, which does sell. That’s obvious. But side shows don’t qualify as Olympic events, a professed desire of the Fed.
Anonymous said
May 13, 2010 @ 9:29 am
Rhonda…That’s not the bottom line at all. With non-dunking events, you measure quickness because you can’t soften the food. With dunking events you measure endurance, because you make the food faster to eat, which means you can eat more of it in a given time.. Non-dunking is also safer as most of the top eaters will tell you and as is indicated anecdotally by the fact that many of the CE-related deaths worldwide were the result of people choking on dry bread.
Mega Munch said
May 13, 2010 @ 10:01 am
Actually, one thing we should think about is that although some bun debris may be lost and the water does help the buns go down easier, we have to consider the extra space all that water in the buns takes up in the stomach. OR, maybe that water DOESN’T take up “extra” space after all. Maybe the water helps condense and break down the buns in the stomach to create MORE room.
beautifulbrian said
May 13, 2010 @ 11:28 am
Larell Marie is very good looking.Met her at cheesesteak I thought she was rick the managers wife until i found out otherwise. I am so glad that dale boone is no longer with the IFOCE because for sure he would have scared her away the same he has done to other females that have thought about competing or have had short lived careers in the sport . Good luck Larell and hope you stick around for future events
Anonymous said
May 13, 2010 @ 11:54 am
‘Nymous: Dunking is competitive DRINKING … not eating. And the reason “most?” top eaters might prefer dunking over nondunking is because they’ve mastered the tactics that go with dunking, and if that vice were taken away, they likely would not be so “top-ranked.” Habit dies hard.
Mega: That’s an excellent point, and food for thought—-no pun intended.
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
May 13, 2010 @ 11:55 am
‘Nymous: Dunking is competitive DRINKING … not eating. And the reason “most?” top eaters might prefer dunking over nondunking is because they’ve mastered the tactics that go with dunking, and if that vice were taken away, they likely would not be so “top-ranked.” Habit dies hard.
Mega: That’s an excellent point, and food for thought—-no pun intended.
gastroboy said
May 13, 2010 @ 12:07 pm
Water doesn’t make more room in the stomach at all, it just makes food go down faster. It adds weight and pressure on the stomach, which may help it distend a little faster too (hypothesis) but not ‘beyond its limits’, in some scenarios it could even be the opposite way arround and will make you eat less of a given food (this scenario probably doesn’t exist in competitive eating but maybe in some eating challenges where size and not time is the issue).
The added weight can make the stomach ‘get angry’ faster but also used wisely along with a proper technique (i.e.: compacting the buns) can save enough space on the stomach to compensate, just with that speed boost, but as for stomach’s size/capacity it’s almost the same both in dunking and non-dunking contests.
Anonymous said
May 13, 2010 @ 12:18 pm
No, Rhonda. Our conversations were about safety, not numbers. I was asking them about the safety of the contests. Every one of them, the very best of the ranked eaters, said they felt safer eating in contests in which dunking was allowed. They all said that the dry bread presents a bigger risk.
Larellmarie said (Registered May 9, 2010)
May 13, 2010 @ 12:36 pm
BB – lollll – thx; u are 2 kind. I wld hv liked to meet Dale Boone; I don’t scare easily 🙂 BTW, luv ur site!!!! And, I’m in for the long-haul now!
gastroboy said
May 13, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
Anon @ 12:18 pm
As far as i know, they said having water at hand makes a contest safer, nothing about contests where dunking was allowed. If i remember correctly (didn’t check it up sorry) Tim posted at the krystall square off blog right after the rule change announcements about the risks of limiting water, in any form, during contests.
Dunked food is about as easy and as dangerous to swallow as the same chuck of food with a big glup of water right after, the problem is if you are temped to overdo it and you pass over your skills and chuck more that you can swallow.
Anonymous said
May 13, 2010 @ 3:35 pm
If he did, that makes sense. He is one of that group of eaters I was referring to.
Anonymous said
May 27, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
http://ifoce.com/news.php?action=detail&sn=796