Satay eating competition: Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi face-off in Singapore

As part of the Singapore Food Festival, the two most famous competitive eating athletes in the world, Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi will be facing-off to see who can eat more satay. To spice things up, there will be a Singaporean representative chosen to compete with them too.

If you don’t know who the two of them are, check out the video below showing their face-off for a hotdog eating competition last year ( WARNING: Don’t watch the video if you are eating something now):

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More information is available on omy and the Major League Eating Asia site.

The event details are as below:

Date：27 July 2008 (this coming Sunday)
Time：4pm – 7pm
Location：Robertson Walk

From now till 27 July, omy is also running a online guessing contest, inviting netizens to guess how many kilograms of satay Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi can finish off together this Sunday. The 4 closest predictions will win food vouchers from Old Chang Kee, Carl’s Junior and Pie Kia. You can visit here for the details or submit your guess directly here. 🙂

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