like thunder dolphin

a roller coaster that goes through a building and of course

Tokyo Dome but today we're talking about food challenges

and help me out is KAI OKUDERA who is a food writer for

Tokyo Cheapo com..... and master of the universe

Hello KAI, so I wanna talk about food challenges

but what strikes me as unusual are that food portions in japan are quite small

aren't they?

Very true I came here almost three years ago

on the first six weeks I was here I lost about seven kilos (15pounds), just because the food here is so much smaller

That's right I think it's all built around this principle of Mottai-nai

meaning don't waste anything. Definitely, I think

I'm from HAWAII and people will go to the buffet and stack food on top

like a pyramid and take that back to the table and eat it all

and try to do it again and again and again until they can't move

right in Japan you don't see anyone having like a Fujiyama(mountain) of food

So I've seen a lot of really unique food challenges in Tokyo like that

Go GO curry

2.5 kilogram curry rice food challenge like fried stuff on top

definitely something I want to try out yeah I think I saw like Skytree

TEMPURA don, it's about maybe about this high

Tokyo's full of lot of food challenges and KAI and I went to one nearby here

in Iidabashi

where I had a monster GYOZA dumpling and you had the...

Triple jumbo Raman(noodle)

KAGURAZAKA-HANTEN is right next to Iidabashi station

one of Tokyo's big crossroads and a student hub. You can't help walking by the

restaurant window and saying

"HUH? Are you serious?" on the bottom are 4 food challenges with the Jumbo

GYOZA (dumpling) being the most ridiculous

a 100 GYOZA plate, massive fried rice triple jumbo Raman and this

a GYOZA for GODZILLA

the inside is humble but inviting. A lot of Japanese celebrities have been here

to try these challenges

they even have a wall of fame

KAI's Ramen comes first

the best Ramen is always served fast how's this competitor feeling?

It's a lot of Ramen but I think I can do it

of course KAI has a strategy right?

No strategy just gonna eat it

here comes the biggest dumpling in the world

it's massive and don't try this at home sort of thing

2.5 kilograms pork mince

with some veggies all wrapped in a bread like shell. It's equivalent to about one

hundred normal size GYOZAs

maybe more! This is my EVEREST

You climb a mountain one step at a time but first we need to cut this thing open

Like cutting through a cake....

would you look at that?

jumbo GYOZA is gushing with juice. It's just waiting to be devoured

normally you can pick up each GYOZA with chopsticks

but this mama needs a fork and knife

Crust around the GYOZA is more like bread

than a GYOZA (dough)

Soaks in all the oil....from the meat

pack with flavor!

The 1st bite always goes down easy doesn't it?

food challenges like this has really grown in Japan

I asked the manager simply what's the deal

don't overdo it? This is a challenge and like all challenges we take it seriously

it's more than food, right

GYOZA is usually a side dish accompanied by a bowl of Ramen

but really it can stand by itself as a meal especially when it's as big as a

cake

let's check in with Kai

one down and two to go KAI made a classic mistake

with the timer on he slurped down boiling hot noodles and has paid the price

the scorched mouth! You have to really pace yourself with the monster food challenge

the first bowl...the second bowl...

slowing down...I burned the mouth pretty bad...

What % of your stomach full?

Let's not talk about negative thing, stay positive

ok my stomach is about

seventy percent full

Eaten only about 30 percent I'm not good at math but that

doesn't sound very promising

KAI has hit the wall hard

each bite goes down like a brick..... even delicious Rahman has its limits

Pick it up! the second wind, right?

Second wind? You feel it? Eye of a tiger?

hit the wall this is the moment where

you have to grab the inner...

power your inner strength! fight through it

you push, push it into the stomach let it

work!! You don't give up

until the end!! You hear that KAI??You don't give up

that's right

sometimes pep talks aren't enough

Are there really ways to defy human limits

I saw this on TV once

massage down.... Maybe not

with time running short and our stomachs at the limits

there was just no where to go it's not polite to leave food on your plate in

Japan most Japanese eat

every grain of rice in their bowls at meals but the human body has its limits

especially for untrained competitive eaters like us man versus food

food 2, man nothing. But it was fun

and the memories will last a lifetime and so will that flavor

jumbo GYOZA and triple RAMEN

It's been few days since that MONSTER GYOZA challenge and I'm still tasting it

After taste of the pig

yeah it's not pretty. No it's not! One of our biggest regret I think was

not finishing it.Leaving something on the plate. There's always another food challenge, isn't there?

Yes! Tokyo in Japan are loaded with food challenges! So if you're walking in

the city and you see a food challenge in the window

don't be afraid to go in and just try it Bring some friends!

Mottai-nai!