Sonya Thomas wins Hong Kong contest
From reuters via Crazy Legs’ Mom & Brian Seiken: Sonya Thomas won the Whampoa Asia Eating Championship by eating 17 Chinese style Lotus seed buns in 12 minutes. Johnny Wu, who finished second in last year’s contest to Takeru Kobayashi, was second with 9 buns. Charles Hardy attended and was listed as Sonya’s publicist.
Updated 4:34 pm – Hong Blog has an eyewitness account of the semifinals
Updated 8/14 12:47 am – pictures of the contest can be seen at Yahoo news
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Rhonda Evans said
August 14, 2006 @ 7:59 am
Excellent job Sonya! Unbelievable that you beat Johnny Wu, the HK Champion by over 100 dumplings! I know it’s not accurate to compare same foods from different contest, but I found your performance even more impressive, noting that Koby ate 85 dumplings last year in 8 minutes, compared to your 176 in 12. You go Girl! By the way, you did not look like you enjoyed eating those buns.
Ken Wong said (Registered July 31, 2006)
August 14, 2006 @ 11:09 am
Coverage of this was on the 6 PM news at about 6:36 PM Sunday August 13 on the CTV affiliate-CIVT-9 in vancouver.bc.ca. Does anyone want the clip uploaded to youtube if I capture it from my video tape copy?
Mr Wright said
August 14, 2006 @ 11:16 am
Ken just send OJ the link and he will put it on this site. Why even ask? of course everyone wants to see it
Bubba said (Registered January 8, 2006)
August 14, 2006 @ 11:19 am
That’s my girl taking the fight to the enemy!!!
Please said
August 14, 2006 @ 11:20 am
Yes that would be awesome Ken. Please do put it on youtube if you can.
-Thanks
THE TRUTH HURTS said
August 14, 2006 @ 11:42 am
Is sonya going to take on the gal or is the gal too young or too scared to face such competition. Notice how the gal becomes obsolete when sonya makes the headlines. i think the pretty girl is just a damn CHICKEN!
Rhonda Evans said
August 14, 2006 @ 12:31 pm
My own opinion is that what Gal Sone does is just for show and fun and that’s fine. It should be totally up to her, Kate, Laurie, or anyone else to do what makes them happy. She’s using the eating route as a novelty for exposure. Again that is just my opinion.
The Gal would probably be quick to admit that she is neither in Sonya’s class nor has anything to prove. Anyway, from what I understand Sonya was there by invitation only, just as Koby was last year. The Gal likely was not invited, nor would she want to be because competing against Sonya wouldn’t help her career — but it surely it might destroy it.
So the bottom line is that Gal Sone knows her limitations and is using her head. I applaud that.
Ken Wong said (Registered July 31, 2006)
August 14, 2006 @ 1:22 pm
I might youtube the video clip after a week since the whole 6 PM newscast is online for a week. Go to
http://www.bcctv.ca/streamnews.jsp?idnews/streaming_news.htm
Click the CTV NEWS button. Click the SUNDAY button in the archive. Eating contest clip and commentary from 35:04 to 35:55.
Ken “The Demolisher” Wong
surrey.bc.ca-City of pie and watermelon eating contests
Locust said
August 14, 2006 @ 2:13 pm
Great job, Sonya! You proved once again to all the doubters that you have lost absolutely nothing at all.
Rhonda Evans said
August 14, 2006 @ 2:25 pm
Thank you Ken!