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Welcome to Major League Eating - Asia edition!
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A reassuring sight, since I signed away any liability in the event of "loss of life."
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The stage is set.
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A skip and a hop from Yanming.
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Eastie supporters.
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The wonderful, chick magnet Ah Heng.
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It was rather embarrassing that my posse boasted a Reuters photo editor, a very proficient amateur photographer and a professional photographer. There were three more amateur photographers with big cameras, just not pictured here.
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Zack the satay champion... too bad on the bad day.
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Calming the nerves.
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My belly, pre-competition.
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Not pole dancing.
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Here's another one of the shutterbugs.
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I shudder to think of how many pictures were taken by everyone in the entire day.
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The softball crew in the bleachers.
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Rod Monteiro, The New 91.3 FM shock jock.
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One of the many blase performances by the 91.3 FM contestants.
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For real?
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Rosalind was the most enthusiastic contestant and she ate about three burgers. She deserved to win. Even though she probably didn't have to try as hard as she did to win.
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Two kilograms of vomit-inducing otah.
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The otah contestants -- no vomitting onstage this time, but Kevin heard retching in the men's bathroom after.
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Oily, spicy, fishy, coconutty... it's easy to get sick of this quickly.
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Especially when you can see yourself eating like this.
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The eventual champion.
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In the burger competition, this guy methodically takes apart buns and patties and chows down.
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Ah Heng and Weily, who apparently has pioneered a new eating technique.
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He would bathe his burgers in the water, allowing them to float around and soak up liquid because gulping them down.
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And that's why he has to do this throughout to keep them from popping out.
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Getting ready to take the field.
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The curry puff guys. Zack told me that curry puff was going to be my best best yesterday, and he might have been right, but I didn't want to go into new territory.
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The unflappable Mr. See.
