Meet California's 'Professional Eater' Who Has Won Over $30,000 in Food-Eating Challenges Worldwide

Did you know that you can earn a living from being a professional eater? A 29-year-old woman from California named Raina Huang travels globally to compete in food-eating challenges. With this unique profession, she has earned over $30,000!

Food Eating Challenges

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Here are some of the top challenges she completed:

100 dumplings consumed in 10 minutes - $1,000
Wing-eating competition (108 wings) - $500
Consuming 28 hot dogs in 10 minutes $1,000
St. Louis team pizza challenge: finish a 10-pound pizza - $500.
California's Mymen Ramen costs - $100 (it takes 20 minutes to consume, but Huang managed to eat it in 14 minutes)

Last month, Huang visited many Asian restaurants in Denver, including Chi Lin in Aurora's Stanley Marketplace and Now Pho on South Federal Boulevard. Local business owners and supporters welcomed her despite the cold temperatures.

During her three-day stay in Colorado, she finished a food challenge. On Nov. 10, Huang made the trip to Salida early in the morning and ate a breakfast burrito from Mojo's Eatery that weighed seven pounds. At Now Pho, for dinner, viewers witnessed her eating 7 pounds of spicy beef noodle stew in less than 30 minutes.

Professional Eater's Secret

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At 29 years old, Huang reportedly can finish 100 sushi plates in 35 minutes and consume 100 dumplings in 10 minutes. This California-based social media influencer now has over 415k followers on Instagram, more than 775k subscribers on YouTube, and a TikTok audience exceeding 3.7 million, where she documents videos of herself eating large quantities of food.

In a recent interview, Huang revealed that she has been eating quickly and a lot of food her entire life, and engaging in food-eating challenges now comes effortlessly to her. She reportedly attributes her fast-eating skills to her childhood love for playing video games, where she needed to eat quickly to return to gaming.

Although it has become her full-time job for 10 years, Huang expresses joy that restaurants encourage her to participate in their food challenges.