I have to join the joint venture project at my work. At least for 10 days until the press release, I will be super duper busy. I don't care about being busy, but I should be careful of my weight. More stress, no exercise, sitting at desk all day, munching something very often, and eating dinner late at night... I will have to watch my weight. I wish I could have lean body habits. Actually, my co-worker eats a lot. When we go to the Japanese noodle (soba or Udon) shop, she orders "Omori" extra large. When we go to bakery, she gets high calorie breads filled with nuts and dried fig or sweet bans like choco colone, but she is very thin with a nice body. We call this type of person "Yase no Ogui" (thin big eater). Hmm I envy her. It's not fair.
I wrote "the food fight" was a popular theme of TV champion of TV Tokyo. Actually Nathan's hot dog (funny story) winner Takeru Kobayashi came from this TV show. But as a matter of fact, TV champion stopped food fights for three years, because in another competition someone died. But this year, TV Tokyo restarted food fight as a different TV Show "Ganso Ogui Ou".
I did not see the guy's fight. I heard since Kobayashi did not enter, the winner was Shirota called Giant Shirota. Here is his blog. He wrote he has stomach training sometimes. I saw the women's fight while I was running at the gym. The winner was a very thin girl called "gal-sone". I found a movie of the final. Check this movie. What they were eating is Sokisoba (Okinawa noodle). Hmm where could the food go?
Thank you Cath
I fixed it!!
Posted by: Mari | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 06:34 PM
There are some problems with the links to the photographs...
Anyway, I love soba and udon! I love to have them again soon...
Posted by: Cath Lee | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 06:09 PM
I'm also "yase no ogui", and many people are surprised I can eat a lot for a body so thin. People are this way usually because of a high "metabolism". I alway explain this to my Japanese friends, but I always get back blank stares until I get out the dictionary...
Posted by: yamo | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 03:36 PM