This is the absolute worst food challenge I've ever undertaken.

It's not every day you pay 9600 yen

to eat something that you actively dread.

To eat something that you have to order two days in advance to have specially prepared.

To eat something that comes with a fine of 30,000 yen

in the event that you're sick whilst eating it.

The monster gyoza challenge in Tokyo involves a

terrifyingly large dumpling stuffed full of

minced pork and cabbage and a 60 minute timeframe in which to eat it.

Finish the gyoza in 60 minutes and get your money back. Easy, no problem, right?

So this is the third chapter in our trilogy of monster food challenges in Japan.

Started several years ago with the Wankosoba noodle challenge.

Where you have to shop over a hundred bowls of soba noodles

and then took us to Akihabara in Tokyo for the monster ramen challenge

where we faced a mountain of noodles, pork and diabetes.

Each time I have gone head-to-head with my good friend Natsuki, the winner walking away with 10,000 yen

and an unforgettable sense of accomplishment. Now, I have forgotten who won the last two times.

Yeah, it was a long time ago, to be honest.

It's not that important anyway.

But let's see how we get on this time, as we go head-to-head once more to take on:

the largest dumpling in all of Tokyo.

What the absolute fuck.

I've never looked at a food item in my life and felt the sheer amount of dread

like I feel looking at this.

Size of a baby. I'm absolutely terrified. What do you think?

No problem.

(Chris) No problem?

(Natsuki) It's so easy. I'm a strong stomach.

You won't be after you finished that, man.

Maybe... garlic pillow.

Garlic pillow?

You can alternately (Natsuki: Good size.) use it as a pillow, given the size of it.

One hour.

One hour?

Yeah, pretty good.

You're so arrogant.

So the last time we did a food challenge, the ramen challenge,

the loser had to forfeit 10,000 yen. (in Japanese)

And yeah (Natsuki: I get it) don't rub it in, I know you won.

But what does the loser have to forfeit this time?

No problem, no money.

Not money?

Loser...

Die!!

Yeah, I think, we'll uh... I think we'll stick with the 10,000 yen bet.

(Chris) Oh my god.

They literally brought it out and start the time and straight away. We're already several seconds in.

(speaking Japanese)

I'm still in shock, to be honest.

I don't know, like, at what point to start on the gyoza.

(speaking Japanese)

Where did you get the candles from? (Natsuki: Candle, candle.) When's your birthday?

August.

(Natsuki: No cutting.) First incision.

I'm gonna start the back, Natsuki started at the end. I'll start at the back.

What's going on there?

What is going on? The thickness of the gyoza? I suppose it needs to be that thick to

contain all the minced pork.

Are you using a spoon?

It really is like a birthday cake. (Natsuki: Easy.)

I look at that and think, how could that - how could that actually fit in your entire stomach?

That is at least three times the size of your stomach.

The only person I know who did finish it is Kinoshita Yuka,

the Japanese food challenging person

who has a - something like a special stomach

that can literally fit everything in the world

Balloon stomach.

Yeah, balloon stomach is, short of the scientific term for it.

She has balloon stomach.

But she was the only person I know who finished it.

What I will say to Natsuki is that he's smart because he has a strategy.

He's just eating, he's stripping the gyoza of its minced pork

and leaving the batter on the side like some sort of batter graveyard. It's a good strategy.

(laughter)

This size is same.

Yeah, the katana is perfect size for the gyoza. (Natsuki: Good size.)

So, we're twenty minutes in now and it started off being relatively delicious.

You know, good batter, decent pork.

But after several hundred mouthfuls of the same thing, it does start to make you want to cry.

How do, one to ten?

One to ten? Seven.

Three.

Look at it.

Look at it.

It's not even a quarter.

My knife and fork keep getting stuck in the batter itself, 'cause it's so damn thick.

It's like sticking a knife and fork into a tire - into a car tire.

We've got thirty six minutes to go.

And I'm officially stealing Natsuki's strategy of just eating the minced pork beside.

You're doing better than I expected.

My plate looks like a fucking bombed city or something, absolutely wrecked.

Soup?

You want a soup?

No, I don't want a soup.

I want a soup.

I want to stop eating.

It's just arrogance, that is. He's that convinced he's gonna, he's gonna eat it all.

He's got some soup and rice to go with it.

Gyoza pie. (Natsuki: On gravy sauce.)

You've got the gravy sauce. (Natsuki: I've got it.)

Is it?

Healthy?

I feel ill just looking at the plate, especially Natsuki's

gigantic pile of batter. (Natsuki: Cemetery, cemetery.)

Batter cemetery. (Natsuki: Gyoza cemetery.)

I'll be a fucking cemetery by the time I finish them.

This is the absolute worst food challenge I've ever undertaken.

Absolutely horrific.

I'm gonna kill you, turn your face into the birthday cake.

See, in hindsight, this is going to be a typical one -

this is gonna be difficult to work out who's won.

Because whilst it looks like Natsuki has done better than I am,

he's basically just left all the batter and scooped out the minced meat and

turned this into a gyoza cemetery.

(Natsuki: Cemetery.) Whereas mine is kind of a bit more difficult to

sort of calculate that.

You can do it.

No push.

Sabotage. Put one push of the katana and Natsuki will turn into a human fountain.

It's like watching Alien or something, what is going on?

Ten, nine,

Seven, six, five, four, four, four, four,

Zero.

Ohhhhh.

It might look like a clear-cut win for Natsuki here. We look at both plates, right?

But actually, I think I might've eaten more than Natsuki, because he scooped out the minced meat

and left the batter on the sidelines.

Made it all nice and tidy, whereas I've just gone -

Just gone all out for it.

But I'll leave it to the cameraman to decide.

Cameraman, who - who has won?

Cameraman will now point, who he thinks is the winner.

Natsuki?

Awwwwwww.

Seppuku!

He did it again for the third - the third time running. Natsuki is the winner, congratulations.

30,000 yen, three challenges, 30,000 yen.

Natsuki is being bankrolled by these food challenges.

Every time, it's okay.

No dinner today.

I don't wanna think about food ever again.

For the next 12 hours.

For now though, guys, as always, many thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.

I~ am a champion... I~ am a champion...