- If you're single, call me.
Will I do this again?
Probably not, unless it's my birthday.
Hi, I'm Mia.
I'm a Snapchat editor at Cosmopolitan.
There's a new type of influencer out there.
And all you have to do is just eat a lot on camera.
It's called mukbang, and I am so down for it.
Some people love it for the ASMR food porn factor.
There are lots of noises.
If all you need is basically a ton of crab legs,
then sign me up.
- You want in on this guys?
- First thing's first.
So my understanding is that mukbang is something
that people watch when they're eating.
I figured I'd watch a few videos while I'm eating dinner.
I've heard that Trisha Paytas is a big mukbang star.
So, here is a mukbang where she eats Cheesecake Factory,
which I fully endorse.
This is actually with Colleen Ballinger.
- Oh yeah should I eat a bag of--
- Eat a bag.
- Should I eat a bag?
That's how hungry I am.
(laughing)
- This is absurd.
There's no way.
Okay, this is also cheating because they have two people.
I have only one person.
I looked up Keemi mukbang.
She eats by herself.
- Hi everyone, welcome back to my mukbang.
Today's another easy recipe video.
- So super big plate, tiny person, which makes me
believe that it's not as much food as people think,
because perspective, and it's bigger food in front of you.
So this is at least two pounds of pork, I would say.
Like a pound and a half, two pounds.
Because those are some pretty big chunks.
(sizzling)
I mean look, she ate most of it.
- Hey guys, welcome to the video.
I'm here today--
- I don't know y'all, I'm very intimidated.
I talked to Tway to get some tips on how to pull this off.
- You're basically eating with the audience.
- Right, right, right.
- For me, usually I don't really like to overeat.
I just want to enjoy my food when I'm filming,
and then eat food that I like.
I usually like to lay them out on a tray.
- Okay. - So it can
look more appetizing.
- Mhm.
- Here's the tray, and I'll edge it up like this
so the food can face the camera.
- And so I'm doing seafood.
- Seafood definitely does very, very well.
Especially like a seafood boil.
- I know a big component too of these videos is the sound.
So how would you make like, a seafood pop?
Is it just cracking it really loud or?
- It's usually the slurps.
(slurp)
You're gonna realize it's really hard to talk
and eat at the same time without looking messy and ugly.
- Right, right.
- So really try to talk in between your bites.
When you take a bite of something
and you feel like it's a good bite just go through with it.
Don't try to speed it up so you can talk.
Just go through with it because the whole point of this
is people watching you eat.
- Right, right, makes so much sense.
Thank you so much for your help.
- Yeah of course, good luck.
- Then I had to check out my competition,
the food I have to house on camera.
Tway said seafood works, so here I go.
Hi guys, so we're here at the fish market.
We're gonna go inside and just look at
some lobster, some crab.
Whatever other kind of seafood
I could possibly fit in my stomach.
This kind woman is getting a look before me,
so let's go inside before she gets the best lobster.
We are in the store and there's a bunch
of delicious stuff that I could easily
just pick up and put sauce on.
Let's see, so we have some scallops.
I love scallops and I feel like I could eat
at least 100 of those at a time.
Feel like the kinds of fish,
this is not what we're looking for in a mukbang
because we want to hear some nice sounds
and we want to hear some popping.
Not to say you can't make a fish pop.
I can make anything pop, okay?
These are my friends, my lovers,
my enemies when they don't have rubber bands on their claws.
I love lobster.
I kinda like this guy, he's giving me
great side eye, right here, and I kind of like that.
If it would just lobsters I feel like
I could eat maybe two by myself.
He's kind of like the size of my hand,
and they say your stomach is like the size of your fist.
So yeah, that looks right.
If you look behind me, just a bunch of claws.
These are king crab legs and snow crab legs.
Definitely couldn't eat a whole box of those.
That would be a stretch.
Yeah, I think those look like the cracky boys
that I want to enjoy in my mukbang.
(bright music)
And now the day arrives, mukbang time.
Hi guys, okay, so we're here to do the mukbang.
Today's the day.
I think my body's ready.
Am I nervous?
A little.
One of the things that people watch for
in a mukbang video is the sounds
which I'll try to give to you.
Listen, I'm not gonna be all porny up in here.
Yeah, let's just do this, I'm really hungry.
We have a lot of food here.
The idea was that maybe I could cook it
but we just did Red Lobster because if you're gonna
eat a lot, you want the stuff.
Coleslaw, this thing, it's just bread.
Cheddar Bay biscuits, obviously.
More Cheddar Bay biscuits.
Literally called the ultimate feast, this is no joke.
Crab legs, broccoli, there's shrimp.
We have a full lobster tail here,
I believe it's either four or eight ounces.
Mussels, and just so you guys know,
this is the shirt I'm wearing, I hope you can see it.
It's super, super big.
It's belted right now but I can't promise that
it will be in about, I don't know, five minutes.
It's lunch time.
Wow, where do I start?
Alright, I'm just going to dig in
in the crab legs right here.
Of course, we have drawn butter here.
This is an inaugural bite.
I love crab.
I don't know what people's strategies are when they
go into these types of things,
but I can only imagine that it's like a point
where you black out for a little while
and you're just still eating
and you wake up covered in lobster.
That's where I hope to be by the end of this video.
I love a good shrimp.
(slurping)
Alright.
We love a Cheddar Bay biscuit.
I watched a mukbang, there was this enormous lobster.
I think it was a one and a half pound lobster
and she just took the lobster tail
and she ate it like a chicken leg, a turkey leg.
So I'm just gonna do that.
(chewing) (laughing)
It sure is meaty.
Oh thank god.
I was afraid there was gonna be more meat inside
but thank god, I'm almost done.
This isn't bad.
(chewing)
If you're single, call me!
Come on.
I think deserves at least a badge.
Maybe not a medal, definitely a badge.
I'm just getting warmed up, really.
One of my co-workers says she has Tums waiting for me
in case I need anything when I get back.
Okay, I'm gonna dip over to these mussels.
This is not how you eat a mussle, but...
(slurping)
I'm not a clams person,
I am not really an oysters person,
but I am for sure a mussels person.
(slurping)
This is a strategy game, too.
I don't want to eat too many Cheddar Bay biscuits
because I know I'll get full and I have a lot left.
Killed that, working on those, still here.
Oh crapola, we have another lobster tail.
(cracking)
So strong.
You know what I wish I had right now
is a glass of white wine.
Black out territory.
(cracking)
Butter is so good.
Honestly, this isn't too bad so far.
Ask me again in eight minutes how I feel,
but right now I'm doing okay, I think.
Better than I expected.
(cracking)
(slurping)
Coleslaw is so good, it feels like a good palette cleanser
before I crush this lobster.
I'm gonna get to you.
Don't forget to chew, you guys, it's important.
Woo!
Okay, two down!
Mmm!
Look how cute they are.
(slurping)
Ah, look how beautiful.
I'm a champion.
(crunching)
(slurping)
(laughing)
Don't want to burp, but...
I just feel the butter all over my face
and it's slowly hardening.
They call me James Harden,
because the butter hardens on my face.
Yo, I'm gonna need a nap after this.
(slurping)
I feel like Rocky running up the stairs right now.
Not to say that I'm done,
I'm sure he did the stairs a few times.
This is my help me face.
I'm getting full so I can feel it up here now.
I can safely say that I wont be eating seafood for a while.
I think we're approaching the finish line you guys.
I'm starting to see memories from childhood
rush past my face.
I'm seeing memories I haven't even made yet, just my future.
Right now, it's me just walking
down the aisle with a lobster.
(wedding music)
These are dense boys.
Okay, I can't eat these anymore.
This is great.
(crunching)
Arm circles.
Great for digestion.
Would I do this again?
Probably not, unless it's my birthday.
If I had to give advice to anybody who wanted to try this
or attempt this in the future,
I'd ask them to sleep on it first, and then give it a go.
Eat at a good pace, don't rush yourself.
Make sure you chew.
Choking is bad.
Have water.
Honestly, I haven't drank that much.
Probably 'cause I drank a half a pound of butter.
But butter is good lubrication for the esophagus.
You can quote me on that, doctors.
Okay, this is it.
This is what I'm going to do and then I am tapping out.
(dinging)
No, (bleep) it, I'm gonna do one more broccoli.
One more broccoli!
If you wanna see more videos like this
subscribe to someone else, because I'm not doing this again.
(crunching) (soft pop music)