‘I’m skilled eater who’s made £24k from scoffing kilos of meals in minutes’
One skilled eater has shared how she will be able to scoff kilos of meals at fast velocity – together with 100 plates of sushi in 35 minutes and 17lbs of steak in 70 minutes.
Raina Huang, 29, has spent the final 10 years touring the world taking over a number of the hardest meals challenges. Her distinctive line of work has seen her earn $30,000 (£24,000) by competitions – over a ten 12 months span.
Raina’s most up-to-date win in Los Angeles noticed her devour virtually 100 dumplings in 10 minutes – coming in first place and taking residence a $1,000 (£790) prize.
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On a latest journey to Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam in Asia, Raina took half in a problem the place she needed to eat the equal quantity of sushi to her 5ft 2ins top – which in comparison with 108 plates value. She completed it in simply 35 minutes and even ate an additional six plates for good measure.
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Petite Raina paperwork her challenges on TikTok and YouTube – the place she has a mixed 4.3million followers.
Talking about her distinctive job, Raina, from Walnut, Los Angeles, California, US, mentioned: “I’ve just eaten a lot and fast all my life and it’s become easy. I think it stems from playing video games – I just wanted to eat fast so I could go back to my game.
“I received to eating places just about day-after-day and when I’m on tour I do challenges each single day. It’s develop into my full-time job now and I’m very grateful that I’m in a position to be on this place the place eating places are inviting me to return and check out their challenges, nevertheless it took plenty of grinding.”
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Raina had tried all types of jobs – together with Twitch streaming and singing – earlier than she fell into the aggressive consuming world 10 years in the past. She added: “I tried to be a part of the entertainment industry as I wanted to be an actor or singer but that’s very saturated I also tried streaming games on Twitch.
“But it was while I used to be working as a chef that sooner or later somebody informed me to do a meals problem and I used to be in a position to eat a 4lb burrito in six minutes. Someone recorded me doing it and the video did so significantly better than something had ever completed and I assumed ‘oh my god, individuals like to look at me eat’.
“I had no clue places would start giving me food for free because I could eat a lot. fter five months of doing YouTube constantly, I took a leap of faith and decided to go for it full-time. My family was questioning it at first but eventually they were very supportive and now they are so happy. Now I’m making more than I was a chef – which was $2,000 (£1,580) a month at the time.”
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Some of Raina’s high challenges she’s accomplished:
- Eating most dumplings in 10 minutes (100)- $1,000 (£790)
- Wing consuming contest (108 wings) – $500 (£393)
- Eating 28 sizzling canines in 10 minutes $1,000
- Team pizza problem in St Louis – end a 10lb pizza – $500
- Mymen Ramen in California – $100 (£80) to eat set quantity in 20 minutes – Raina completed in 14 minutes
Raina’s favorite delicacies to eat in bulk is Mexican due to how briskly she will be able to wolf it down and she or he plans to participate in additional Mexican-themed competitions over the festive season. She mentioned: “I thought I was good at Asian food but maybe I’m not as good as I thought. Burrito challenges are great as they are so soft so I think I can complete them quite quickly.
“The competitions simply rely on what’s in season “As it’s the holiday season at the moment a lot of places are promoting right now. There’s a few tamale eating competitions at the moment over Christmas.”
But Raina is not at all times in a position to full each problem and just lately met her match in Taiwan. “I was there for 10 days, I had 3.6kg of Yakisoba and 17lbs of steak which I completed,” she mentioned. “But there have been these Chinese hamburgers with very thick dough that I truly failed.
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“I had to try and eat 15 of them but anything with a lot of carbs I find very difficult as it can be so heavy and hard to swallow. As it had so much bread it was very hard to swallow no matter how much water I had.
“That’s one thing I’ve observed within the variations between the aggressive eaters in Asia and America. Asian aggressive eaters like to sit down for a very long time whereas Americans wish to get it down quick. I’m used to the American approach so consuming water helps to lubricate the meals so you will get it down actually quick.
“I met a lot of Asian competitive eaters and before they’d had a sip of food they’d already had 2kg of food as they were taking it slower.”
Raina hopes to sooner or later journey to the UK to tackle some British classics within the aggressive consuming world.