Speed eating rules!

This week was the ４８ｔｈ wanko soba competition in our beloved Iwate ken. It takes place in Hanamaki, a place so far south of my town in might as well be in another country. The competition consists of eating as many small bowls of bite size portions of buckwheat noodles as possible in a certain time. This year`s winner downed an impressive 241 bowls.

However, this is nothing compared to the leader board they have in the restaurant with a man from Yamanishi prefecture eating 559 in one sitting in 1996.