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Monday, 15 July 2013
YOSHIMARU Ramen Challenge 2013 (late!) So last Thursday, a day after my 21st, I had nothing to do after work. And my friend Chun Ming suddenly decided to adopt the YOLO mode out of nowhere. CM: Ramen challenge later, onz? Me: What time? CM: Nowwwwwwww Me: Lol ok. And we met up at Holland Village to this ramen bar called Yoshimaru. One of my favourite place to eat ramen I must say. For their quality, the price is really worth it. 11 bucks++ for a bowl of hearty ramen, when it can go up to 20bucks in other places. Yoshimaru also happened to be conducting this ramen challenge, whereby you have to finish a ramen exactly 3times the normal size within 15minutes and it will be S$0 ! Sounded like a good deal to me, so why not right! And I've gotta do something to make my birthday kinda memorable in a way too! Heh. From the sound (and sight of other people) of it, the portion did not look intimidating to me. Not until the noodle itself was prepared in front of my eyes. 
Damn look at that. I got nervous right away.
And so when our bowls arrived, the rules and regulations were stated to us. We even had to sign an indemnity form before that.
Pretty simple, standard rules if you asked me.
Finish everything including last drop of soup and condiments, don't throw up, not allowed to go anywhere until the timer stops.
It actually looked very appetizing to the hungry me at that time.
 
The ready challengers before the timer starts.
And with the sound of a horn, the timer began! We gulped everything down as fast as I could.
But I started to strategize a little, by having soup on my left hand and noodles on my right, gobbling down alternately.
Soon after, I started to insert pieces of condiments into my mouth too. I figured it would be too sickening to finish up all the condiments only after I finished my noodles.
By my 7th minute, I started to slow down already.
By my (approximately) 3rd bowl of ramen, I was feeling rather terrible.
But I think I really pushed myself at that time. I can't really remember much of what happened. I was focused.
All I remember are these bits and pieces of thoughts floating around:
"Strategize. Eat the egg now. Eat the meat now. Soup now."
"Wow if Chun Ming barely finishes it, what about me?"
"FINISH IT UP!!! You're almost there and if you falter, it's 30bucks flying out of your pocket!"
BAM! With my last ounce of struggle, I finished until the last drop of the soup, and completed the challenge with a mouth-check by the waitress.
I did it! I just couldn't believe it at the moment. I was feeling literally the fullest in my whole life.
And for a reason I still couldn't exactly figure out, my limbs went numb for a few minutes.
They just paralyzed and my fingers were stuck in this weird position for a while.
I believe it was just an after-effect of adrenaline overdose though. Haha.
For the highlights of what happened, here is a short clip taken by Kabin who gladly accompanied us despite not participating in the challenge himself.
Most of the photos are taken by him too. Overall, a great experience I would say. 
Look at our aftermath expressions.
No seriously it was an out-of-the-world eating experience.
Although I doubt that I could ever do it again. Hahaha.I think I was really under the influence of the Holy Spirit or something. I never knew I could do all that. 
The certificate of completion that we got at the end. We completed the challenge with around 2 minutes to spare.
A couple of cans of Mini Asahi as a compliment of the ramen bar.
Bloated. But triumphed!
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