japanese tv

Some criticise the stupidity of Japanese TV programs, but I LOVE THEM! I hope that doesn't reflect badly on me...! There are loads of game shows with crazy challenges. One of my favourites is where the contestants wear a velcro jumpsuit, take a run-up, jump on a little trampoline and see how high they can stick to a velcro score board. Nice!

But tonight I saw something not so nice - a ramen eating contest (Chinese noodles in a bowl of soup). I came in at the end of the contest to see the 3 hopefuls sweating and slurping up the noodles, sweating and slurping and sweating. Ew! They were dripping sweat into their ramen bowls, making it a My Own Sweat-eating contest. After an hour the winner was the proud eater of SEVENTEEN bowls of ramen.