Wired's Lisa Katayama (of Tokyomango fame) has a great story up today about Natsuko Sone, a tiny Japanese woman who works as a chef but has a sideline as a celebrity "food fighter" — she can eat 25 percent of her body-weight in one sitting, and routinely out-eats Sumo wrestlers.
Natsuko Sone is a petite 21-year-old who stands 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs just 95 pounds. But she can eat 183 pieces of sushi in half an hour and down 20 pounds of food in one sitting…
Presented with a gigantic bowl on a weekly variety show, Sone says, "I can eat this easily!" The human food vacuum takes a pair of chopsticks and digs into the 20-pound tub of curry, noodles and rice. For the next hour, the crowd looks on as her slender hand carries giant gobs of food from bowl to mouth. When asked how she's doing, she simply says: "This is delicious!"
