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Pictures dated
December 23, 2014 shows Chinese competitive eater Pan Yizhong picking up an egg
at a buffet restaurant in Changsha, in central China's Hunan province. Chinese
competitive eater who marked the Christmas season by consuming 160 eggs in one
sitting said on Wednesday he was in good health and planned more extreme
stunts.
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Pan
Yizhong, 46, sported a red and white Santa hat as he gobbled 150 quail eggs and
10 chicken eggs in less than 40 minutes on Tuesday to promote a restaurant in
central China's Hunan province.
AFP reports the
Chinese word for Christmas -- Shengdanjie -- contains a character which is a
homophone for "egg," and Pan said it "seemed like an appropriate
time to eat eggs."
Quail
eggs are significantly smaller than chickens' eggs, and pictures showed him
shoving several into his mouth simultaneously.
"At
the time I got to 160, I was becoming tired of the flavour so I stopped. It
wasn't because I was full," he told AFP.
Pan,
the most celebrated exponent of the art of competitive eating in China, has
previously dispatched 147 dumplings in a single sitting and once polished off
40 bowls of noodles in 15 minutes.
"Now
I'm back to normal, I've had ice cream and barbequed meat since," Pan
said.
"As
a competitive eater, I want to test my limits eating all kinds of food."
Christmas
-- once banned in China -- has grown rapidly in recent years mainly as a
shopping festival, with marketeers using everything from saxophones and Smurfs
to steam trains to get consumers to open their wallets.
"I
never tried eating so many eggs before, and I feel I still haven't reached my
limit," Pan added.
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