Some girls have ALL the luck. While I put on weight just LOOKING at Portuguese Egg Tarts, this pretty lass, Natsuko Sone, eats more than a Sumo wrestler and is a tiny 43 kg!!!
The 22 year old is a mere 5 feet 4 inches tall. Known as Gal Sone, she wears thick make-up and girlie clothes and looks every-inch the trendy Harajuku girl. But while most girls in her platform shoes watch their intake, in order to fit their cutsie clothes, Gal Sone can eat 183 pieces of sushi in half an hour, or 200 pounds of food in one meal.
In Japan, she is known as a FOOD FIGHTER. Here, the team of waiters are presenting her with her just desserts.. mmmm.
Her favourite saying before downing a gigantic mountain of food is “I can eat this easily!”.
Obviously enjoying her meal. She likes to say mid-way through: “This is delicious”
All gone!
She is a celebrity in her homeland Japan, where she appears on tv shows and travels the world in her job as a celebrity food fighter. She has her own show - “Gal Sone Eat A Lot In The World”, she gets to travel the world and eat signature dishes in seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and now, MACAU.
Natsuku stopped over in Macau recently to film a portion of her show at MGM Grand Macau, where she ate:
11 Shark Fin Soups
6 French courses
10 desserts
Imperial Court Chinese restaurant and Aux Beaux Arts Brasserie prepared the dishes and we assume MGM footed the HUGE bill.
Next stop for Gal Sone is Bangkok. Where we can only imagine the amount of Tom Yum soup and Pad Thai she’ll consume.
Although her Macau eating adventures will only be broadcast in Japan on September 16 at 7pm, you can watch Gal Sone in action here, as she challenges Japanese magician Cyril Takayama to an eating contest.
Looks like even Cyril’s magic can’t help him here!
Japanese superstar magacian Cyril Takayama recently visited Macau for the first time to film his 14th 2-hour television special for Japanese network Fuji TV. Cyril, who has a Okinawan father and a French-Moroccan mother also found time to throw a private magic at MGM Macau, where it seems he charmed most of the female audience.
Although he performed some fancy tricks at the Ruins of St. Paul, Leal Senado Square and Á-Ma Temple, he stuck to the basics at the gathering.
He didn’t perform his levitation or hamburger trick but depite only using a few rubber bands, coins and cards, the handsome magician, certainly had the audience eating out of his hands.
We’re sure Cyril has an affinity for Macau, since it was in the original casino town of Vegas where he first caught the magic bug. He was 7 years old when he saw a guest magician leviate a woman and cut himself in half. It’s all in a day’s work for Cyril who is known for making magic cool in Japan, and achieving the type of heart-throb status usually reserved for pop stars in the process.
He’s certainly come a long way from a teenager who couldn’t afford a meal to someone who can turn a cup of coffee into coins and pull a real hamburger out of a menu and take a chomp from it, only to replace it in the menu, minus the bite.
We’re wondering if he had the chance to make it near the casino floor because he sure would have had the surveillance team in a tizzy. For a guy who can swallow a coin, only to slit his arm with a box cutter and pull the coin out of the wound, making certain cards disappear and reappear is child’s play.
We’re not sure whether it was the magic, his good looks, charm or a combination of all 3, but Cyril certainly looks like he made quite an impression on its Managing Director Pansy Ho.
Beautiful girls and pretty boys were the highlight of the Gucci store launch at Wynn Macau.
Designer brands are nothing new to Macau. Just take a walk round the shops in 5-star hotels like Wynn Macau, MGM Grand and The Venetian and you’ll see luxury boutiques like Louis Vuitton, Emporio Armani, Dior, Versace and Ferragamo everywhere.Those in the know actually stock up on their designer goods here.
The prices are actually lower than many other cities like Singapore, since Macau’s imports are are not taxed.
And last Friday, one of the big players, Gucci, launched their first Macau store in Wynn, with the focus on accessories.
While it wasn’t a flashy affair - invited guests comprised press and VIP customers - there were some notable celebrities in attendance.
Macau-born model/actress Gaile Lok (above, right) showed off Gucci’s Spring Summer ‘08 line along with other models Patina Lin, Mikki Yao and Eunis Chen. Gaile (or should we say Mrs Lai), recently married Hong Kong superstar Leon Lai in an intimate ceremony in the Maldives on March 13.
In the later part of the evening, Hong Kong celebrity couple model QiQi (of SK-II fame) and her action star husband Simon Yam made an appearance hand-in-hand.
Six-footer QiQi was thoughtful enough to wear flat boots, though she still looked like an Amazon next to Simon, who is 5 foot 11 inches. QiQi’s 70s hairstyle makes the couple look like the Asian version of Sonny and Cher.
I dunno, maybe it’s just me.
The celebrity couple (bottom right) had dinner with (from left) Mimi Tang, President of Gucci Group Asia Pacific and Pansy Ho, daughter of Stanley, who has a stake in MGM.
Pansy, who is in her mid-40s looks amazingly young and fresh. We know QiQi’s secret lies in her SK-II products, but we’d love to find out Pansy’s beauty secrets - her flawless skin makes her look at least a decade longer than she actually is.
QiQi, may be endorsed by SK-II, but even all the pitera in the world cannot replicate the youthful glow that radiated from Gaile.
Newly married Gaile, appeared sans her superstar husband, but she looked every inch the radiant new bride.
Although petite Gaile admitted removing her breast implants due to health complications, there is one thing that is still supersized - her luscious lips!
We’re not sure how natural they are, but they certainly give Angelina Jolie’s puckers a run for their money!
Hello. I have spent the last 10 years of my life living and working in Singapore. But as of Feb 10, I am now here in Macau, and part of Macau.com. So I was very pleased to find that Jetstar Asia now flies direct from Singapore to Macau. Three months ago, I was here for a look around on Tiger Airways, which allows 15kg of baggage. That’s fine for a holiday. But a girl can accumulate a lot of baggage in 10 years. 15kg doesn’t even get my shoe collection, much less the rest of my life here.
The Jetstar crew, as always, were very friendly and professional - almost to a fault. They remind me of the staff at MGM Grand Macau who warned me to zip up my bag and take my hat off. Didn’t you know? Unzipped bags and hats on heads aren’t allowed in casinos here. I’m a danger to myself, and the public at large.
Back to Jetstar, I was sitting by the emergency exit and the cabin crew taught me something new. In exchange for the extra leg room, and the privilege of being responsible for saving people’s lives, should the plane encounter any difficulties (i.e. crash land, which is when I’d have to yank the exit open), you also have to ensure that nothing is on the floor, sticking out of the seat pocket or on your lap - well, except your hands. So after the flight attendant removed my jacket from my lap, and deposited it into the overhead locker, she oh so politely asked if I’d mind making sure the strap of my handbag was tucked firmly into the seat pocket ahead of me. I assume in case I got tangled up in it, in my haste to open the exit, should the need arise. Now that’s forward thinking. Clever girl noticed I was a klutz when I tripped over getting into my seat.
I like Jetstar Asia. Partially because the nice ground staff let me bring 27kg of luggage on board when I smiled nicely and also because the flight attendants are nice. But they get brownie points for having better make-up skills than Tiger Airways, who can’t seem to match their foundation to their natural skin tone. I heard a rumor that apparently Jetstar has help from SQ girls in the grooming department.
But I especially like Jetstar because of their cheap fares - I paid $50 one way for mine, though it can cost a little more, depending on when you fly. Now it’s so affordable to come to Macau; I’m flying my friends over, in exchange for their baggage allowance. You see - paying their tickets actually works out cheaper than sending my life over by air, and only slightly more expensive than sea. Obviously, I’d have to only choose the friends that can fit into my clothes and shoes. This Friday my ex flat mate is bringing the second shipment of my shoes - just two more to go. So if you see a girl tripping around The Venetian Macao this weekend in five-inch cherry red heels - come over and say hello.
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Without question, Mahjong is one of the most popular games in Asia.
Now, the World Series of Mahjong is turning the game into a star-studded tournament, with contestants from around the world recently competing in Macau for one million US dollars in prize money.
This year, 302 contestants from 15 countries battled it out for the title of "World Mahjong Champion", with the 1st place winner taking home a cool 500,000 US dollars.
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