Keizei.biz reports that Hatsuyo "The Witch" Sugawara won the Morioka wanko soba noodle eating contest for the third year in a row by eating 399 bowls in 10 minutes. update Japan Times has an English article about the contest.

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  1. mega munch said

    November 9, 2009 @ 10:11 pm

    399 BOWLS?!? How big are those bowls? Are they the size of a shot glass? They can’t be much bigger. Even 399 shotglasses of noodles in 10 minutes is amazing.

  2. A-Bomb said (Registered May 7, 2009)

    November 9, 2009 @ 10:43 pm

    Munch, there’s a video, from Japan, of Koby in a contest with a couple of other guys. He downs about 400 bowls of noodles in 8 minutes or something. Unbelievable to watch. Sure, the ball of noodles in each bowl is maybe half an ounce or so…but do the math on that!

    Maybe OJ knows of which video. I think it’s Koby and two other guys. Each guy has a woman assigned to them who refill their bowls as they eat.

  3. KevinRoss said

    November 9, 2009 @ 11:29 pm

    I was curious about this, so I did the math. Article says each bowl is 10 grams. So 399 bowls converts to around 140 ounces (i.e. somewhere in the 8-9 lb range). So although it is still very good, I think it is not as much volume as one would imagine with 399 of something. Wee little thimbles of noodles apparently.

  4. ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)

    November 9, 2009 @ 11:39 pm

    A picture of the bowls

    http://morioka.keizai.biz/photoflash/261/

    The Kobayashi noodle contest from 2001

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3KlksPUVhs

  5. Anonymous said

    November 10, 2009 @ 1:09 am

    There better than anything we got over here and shes the best in the world a real woman.

    Luther

  6. anonymous said

    November 10, 2009 @ 2:03 am

    i cant figure out this log in issue from one minute to the next . With explorer i can leave comments without logging in . With aol i have to register or log in. Really OJ can you please inform us as to what the fuck is going on.? One would assume that a slew of anti BB comments or some other vulgar shit made its way onto the site and you had to go back to the registration process

  7. A-Bomb said (Registered May 7, 2009)

    November 10, 2009 @ 10:13 pm

    Thanks, OJ!

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