August 14, 2005
That's a lot of Haar Kau!
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Char Siu Bao - 2 is enough for me thanks. |
A few years ago I came across the Japanese sport of 'speed eating' - taking western-style pie eating contests to new levels. The competitors are frequently scrawny and train heavily for the events.
Anyhow it turns out there's been a contest in Hong Kong and in the semi-finals a japanese contestant scoffed 83(!) dumplings in 8 minutes. From the look of the picture, they're Haar Kau (shrimp dumpling), a personal favourite Dim Sum dish of mine. I could probably manage a dozen, and don't get me wrong, my family's Dim Sum order is frequently massive, but this takes eating to a new level.
Rather more disturbingly the final is going to involve speed eating 'pork buns'.
That sounds to me, ominously like Char Siu Bao.
Anyone who can speed eat Char Siu Bao is inhumanly talented. I use 'talent' rather liberally here - gorging yourself at such speed is rarely considered to be particularly edifying as far as dinner table activities go.
Best of luck to him. I don't know whether to drool at the thought of Dim Sum or vomit spectacularly at the thought of consuming so much of it, so quickly.
Later