Food challenge

For 8 years, Takeru Kobayashi (I did not know he was called "Tsunami" ha ha ) won Hot Dog Eating Contest on Independence Day in the U.S. Recently he ate 69 burger in 8 minutes. He is a food fighter, actually in this Krystal burger competition, he got $10,000.

Do you want to try such a challenge?? Before you try such a competition or contest, how about you checking your chances and ability? In the Tokyo area, some restaurants have such BIG challenge menus. They do not have a prize, but some places make your challenge "free of charge". I'll introduce some places on this site. "Big eating challenger".

Udon
Udon for 10 peoples. Time limits is 5minutes, if you fail, it costs 2500yen.

jiao-zi
60 piece of Jiao-zi(1.5kg). The time limit is 15 minutes. Hmm this looks not so heavy.

Curry
2.3kg curry. Time limit is 20 minutes, if you fail, it costs 1400yen. Cheap?

Tontatsu
Big pork and a mountain of cabbege, Time limit is 25 minutes. Only 10% could succeed, actually he could not make it. The difficult part is cabbage he said.

Beef Sukiyaki
This is the challenge menu of Chain beef bowl store "Sukiya". At random they make this event. Only 1kg beef looks small after looking at above food.

1kg Ramen
About 1kg, ramen ( separate soup type), he says this is quite easy. If you fail, it costs 1400yen.

In my past, what I ate most was...hmm...I think it was Yakiimo! maybe two or three big size I can eat always once.   And a bar of roll cake, it is easy too.

Comments

[Huang]

The Tsunami guy is really incredible and he looks really pint sized !

The list didn't include any Okonomiyaki places.

[robert]

oh.. I'm full just reading this. eating is one of those things. I think it sounds great. I get alot of food..then I end up taking most of it home. You'd think I'd be trim and happy for it, but the doctor recently told me I am 10 lbs overweight. :( and I have been working out like CRAZY..but I seem to be gaining weight.. I notice in all of the "challenges" there is not one where the prize is antacid, or a nice cot to roll into and take a nap after all that food. Now THAT would be a prize!:)

[cecile]

i think i can eat 60 pcs. of jiao zi/gyoza but 15 minutes is definitely not enough. more like two hours. i love tonkatsu with the cabbage. but i can see why cabbage will defeat anyone. i think it'll cause bloating or water retention. but i still love it. hehe.