(suspenseful music)
- Three, two, one, dumplings!
(dramatically sobbing)
- [Zach] Get in my belly!
It's dumpling time!
(Try Guys theme music)
- We are here at the world-famous Din Tai Fung
for the first ever Try Guys eating challenge.
- We are going to eat 400 dumplings today.
- That's right, the actual record is 373 dumplings
in 10 minutes set by Matt Stonie.
There's more of us, we're not gonna do it in 10 minutes
but we're gonna do our best.
- Joining us today is Mike Chen from Strictly Dumpling
who is here to help us eradicate that record.
- 'Cause we're all that and dimsum!
(Try Guys cheers)
(Try Guys awes) - Oh, and then dimsum!
- Do it, yeah!
- Yes, we're like Dude Perfect but we eat a lot!
(light playful music)
Today, I'm just trying to pull my weight.
I'm just trying to take 400 divided by four
and then just do 100.
Ah!
I just burped and farted at the same time.
- I'm so excited to eat so many dumplings.
I think today I can clear 100
but my goal is to beat Eugene.
I gotta take you down.
Look, I know that you can handle this
but I can handle this too.
I am hungover.
Oh my God!
Guys, this is a lot of dumplings.
- I'm really excited about this video.
I'm Korean so mukbangs came from Korean culture.
I think my goal is 150 today.
- Oh no!
- [Ned] So that means your goal is 151.
(Keith and Eugene laughing)
- I feel like I'm about to have a heart attack.
- My channel's name is called Strictly Dumpling
so you guys know I love dumplings.
I had a dumpling challenge in Japan.
6.5 pounds of dumpling.
I finished like 3/4 of it.
So I'm here seeking sort of a dumpling revenge
on its brethren, on its much smaller brethren.
Has anybody died eating too much food?
- Today, I'm on doctor's orders to avoid inflammatory foods
so as a happy compromise, I'm just gonna take it easy.
I'm just gonna have some fun, savor the flavor.
I'm here for you.
- Seems like there's two things
in eating competitions, right?
Speed and endurance.
Since we're not really doing a true eating contest,
we're gonna try to separate those two parts.
Part one, we're gonna get 200 dumplings
delivered to the table and see how many we can eat
in the fastest time possible.
- Each tray will have 10 dumplings
so we'll track our progress
by stacking trays on top of each other.
- And then after that, for round two,
we'll be a little more leisurely with our eating
and see how many we can top off that initial 50.
- Does it hurt your stomach?
- Yeah. - Yes!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a lot of food.
- It's like Thanksgiving times 20.
(gong bangs)
- Oh, boy! - Oh!
- Oh my gosh. - Oh!
- Oh! - Oh my goodness.
- Ooh! - Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness. - Ooh!
- Oh my god!
- It's like a beauty pageant. - Oh my god!
- [Everyone] Whoa!
- [Zach] Oh my god!
Oh my god! (Try Guys oohing)
- Wow, thank you. - Wow!
- Each of us except for Zach have 50 dumplings.
Zach, you have--
- [Zach] I don't know, maybe 10 or 20.
- I could give 10.
The four of us are gonna see how long it takes each of us
to eat 50 dumplings.
- Gentlemen, are you ready to get your dump on?
- Yeah. - Let's do it!
- Commencing dumpling eating in three, two, one, go!
(Ned cheers)
- Oh my goodness! - Oh yeah!
- [Ned] Look at that!
- How'd you already eat one?
They're flaming hot!
- Wow! - Eugene, slow down!
- Oh, they're so hot!
- Oh, they're really hot. - Oh, they're too hot.
- They're too hot, they're too hot.
- I like to savor the first few.
- They're too hot!
- Why are they so hot? - They're too hot!
- They're too hot.
Ah, so hot! - This is very hot.
- [Keith] It's so hot, it's so hot.
- [Zach] I think they could see the steam.
These are fresh.
- Are you guys one of those people that
when the food is too hot,
you spit it out or you go ooh, (exhales deeply)
until you swallow it? - No, you do the reverse cool.
(breathes heavily)
- I do the Asian thing where I just swallow it
and my esophagus burns.
- There you go!
- I actually kind of love the feeling of burnt skin
on the roof of your mouth.
- What?
- You know what I'm talking about?
Like after you burn the roof of your mouth,
you have that little dangly skin
you get to play with with your tongue?
- Ah, I've got a runny nose!
- It's to a ho-lo-rous level
where I can just pop the whole thing.
- Yeah, my mouth is already burnt so badly.
- I guess I could try that. - That I'm just going for it.
Done. - Oh dang, Eugene!
- Damn!
All right, well my 10 are gone.
(bell rings) - Let's go, baby!
(bell rings)
- We should've added this as a temperature challenge too.
- I had no idea it was gonna be like this.
- This is so sad, I'm eating my favorite food so quickly.
- There's something so cool about a soup dumpling.
It's its own cooking device.
It's like a little hot tub--
- I'm done. - The tub is its own body.
- Oh my gosh, Eugene!
- True dumpling was created in Shanghai
in a place called Nanyang.
It's great because the soup, most people think,
how do you get the soup in there?
It's like magical soup dumpling elves!
Well, it's congealed whole.
When you steam it, it dissolves
and makes this wonderful soup.
- Boom! - Oh, thank you!
That's teamwork, baby!
- This is the very best day of my life.
This is so fun. - 20!
- You're already almost done, Eugene?
- Yeah, so I'm in my 40s.
- Tortoise and The Hare.
Maybe you should take a lap and hang out, take a nap,
let us catch up to you.
- Wow! - This is just a competition
against the heat.
- Eugene is crushing this.
He's got two more.
- Wow, Eugene, that's your last one?
(bell rings)
- Wow and time. - Wow!
- Oh, that was too long.
(bell rings) - Boom!
Corn buddy, team corn buddy, done!
- Oh my god!
- You guys have 21? - 20 left, yeah.
- Let's see who can win between you two.
- Oh god, Ned, just take your time, man.
I'ma slow it down.
You don't need to rush.
- I've never thought this was a competition.
It was kind of a surprise for me.
- So the original history of dumplings,
1800 years ago, there's a guy named Zhang Zhongjian
and he is a doctor but he's also a government official.
When he retired, he went back home
and it was during the winter
and he saw all his villagers,
their ears were getting frostbites and kinda falling off
and so him being a doctor,
he cooked together a massive cauldron of lamb
and herbs and Chinese medicine
and he folded it into little pieces of dough
into the shape of ears 'cause he's just that cute.
That's just--
- Here's a new ear for you, let's eat.
- Guys, this is a lot of dumplings.
Nice job, Ned!
- Fight the pain! - Wow, good job Ned!
(bell rings) (Mike clapping)
(Ned coughs intensely)
- Tell us more, Mike!
- (laughs) You've not been listening.
- The villagers and the frost bite!
- [Mike] And when the villagers
ate the soup in the dumpling, their ears were healed
that's why every single day of the winter,
the winter solstice, Chinese people,
we all eat dumplings so your ears don't fall off.
- Keith has one last one.
It's his 50th dumpling.
- 50th dumpling.
- Come on, buddy! - Wow!
- Keith, Keith, Keith! - Until he gets it.
Chew it down, chew it down! - Go!
You guys feel the medical component?
- I feel like I'm on drugs, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel like drugs are in my system right now.
- I feel good! - I feel like it.
- 2019 campaign! (bell rings)
- Yeah, Keith!
Way to go, Keith! - Right, all right.
- My two favorite numbers, 15 and 19.
- That was more difficult than anticipated
because we didn't discuss the scalding heat
of soup dumplings in baskets.
So the first round, we tested our speed.
This next round, we're testing endurance.
So we're getting two rounds of 100.
We're dividing it 30, 30, 20, 20.
- [Ned] Break the 'pling!
- We're gonna do that twice so it equals 400 total
and each person is gonna tap out
when they can't have any more dumplings.
- Next round!
(gong chimes)
- All right, we're gonna bring out our second round.
We're going to our endurance test.
This is 100 dumplings total, 30, 30, 20, 20.
- Oh I forgot, they're coming behind us.
Oh my god, oh god! - Oh there it is again.
- I forgot all about this part.
- All right three, two, one.
- Dumpling time! - Dumplings!
- [Ned] Ooh!
- So talk about the heat.
Well you underplayed that this competition
was just arbitrarily beating a dumpling record
that actually wasn't soup dumplings?
- Right.
- Whose idea was it to do soup dumplings?
- It was mine! - Could this be
a world record?
- You guys love soup dumplings!
- 90% of the audience watching would not do this.
Most people I know can't handle temperature heat.
- I think my body's doing something
'cause it's starting to tell me
that this doesn't taste good.
My heart's saying yes but my body's saying no.
- Number 51 was really easy.
I was like, wow, I'm back in!
I'm in number 57
and I, wowee,
it's amazing how just a few more dumplings fills the pot.
(bell rings) Wow, Eugene.
You really are a god.
- I feel like I'm about to have a heart attack.
- Don't do it.
- I feel the dumpling attacking my cardiovascular system.
♪ Just roll out the dough and put in some pork ♪
♪ And twist it all up and steam it til it's hot ♪
♪ Then put it in your mouth and it comes in your mouth ♪
♪ And swallow it in your mouth and it feels so good ♪
♪ And it feels so good ♪
♪ If you don't like it just don't do it again ♪
(slow-mo playful music)
- Oh!
- Has anybody died eating too much food?
- You're so sweaty, Eugene.
- Yeah, 'cause this is my 79th.
- 79!
- 80 dumplings!
(bell rings) - Ooh!
- Wow. - God damn!
- You are allowed to tap out if you have to.
- I'm not tapping out.
I'm fucking beating you, bro.
(Zach laughs)
You're going down!
- Keith is the turtle, man.
You're the turtle.
- I'm not gonna stop.
- You are slow but you are-- - Steady.
- Yeah!
- You guys have a new personal goal?
- 80. - 80.
- My personal goal is just one more
and then one more after that
and then one more after that.
(playful music)
(light tapping)
- You okay there, Ned? - Ah, it hurts!
Oh my god! (playfully mumbles)
- [Eugene] Looks like you're at 65.
Five more to 70.
- [Keith] Oh, gross!
He's got pork juice on his nose.
(guys laughing)
(Ned groans)
- Mm!
- Is he always like this when he's full or just dumplings?
- I've never seen this before.
- I've never seen this before either!
- I just ate 69 dumplings.
- Oh, you two at 69! (Mike cheers)
(gong chimes)
- For our final round, we only have 90 dumplings to go
to hit 400.
We can do this.
- I have a new realistic goal.
I wanna challenge the Asians.
I think we both can hit 100.
- I think so. - Let's just both hit under.
I think 200 between us,
then we would be half the table.
I think we can do it.
- I still haven't finished my 70th, thank you very much.
- [Zach] You could do it, buddy!
- You guys ready? - Ready!
- Three, two, one, dumplings!
- Wow. - But first, that heat.
- Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get in my belly!
It's dumpling time! - Bravo!
- How many was I at?
(Eugene groans)
- Yeah, careful.
(chopsticks tapping)
- Oh, are you okay? (Eugene groans)
- If I go slower, I'm gonna not finish 100.
(playful music) (slurping)
It's almost like at this point,
I basically could just be drinking pork
which usually sounds like a great time
but right now, it's getting difficult.
- Oh, I just burped and farted at the same time!
(Zach burps)
(bell rings)
- Eugene, you're so impressive.
- What do I do with this? - Let's talk about Eugene.
- [Eugene] Alright, I got 10 more before I hit 100.
♪ Little dumplings in a box ♪
- 67! (bell rings)
- You gotta get to 69, Ned.
That is the funniest one!
- You've gotta end at 69, bro.
- I can't!
- You can do it. - No!
- [Mike] Every dumpling is closer
to me just vomiting everywhere.
When the vomit comes, it's not stopping.
- Hold on, Eugene, you're in your last one?
Eugene just is chewing up dumpling 99.
That means with the next dumpling,
he will be a dumpling centurion.
- Oh my god, oh my god!
Wow, you're amazing!
- 100 dumplings. (rock music)
- Wow! (bell rings)
- Yes!
Yes!
(Zach cheers)
- Fuck yeah, I could do 69! - No, oh my god, stop.
- I'm gonna smash these two dumplings in my face!
(Ned groans)
(laughing)
(rock music)
69! (bell rings)
(Zach cheers)
(Ned cheers)
I have conquered my personal boundaries!
I am officially tapping out.
(Ned clapping)
(bell rings) (Zach laughs)
69 dumplings!
(Zach cheers) - All right!
- I've already eaten more than what's recommended for me
but I have one dumpling for every year
of my beautiful life.
28 dumplings.
(Mike and Zach clapping)
(bell rings)
Tapped out.
- I'm at 73.
- And Mike is about to eat his 99th dumpling.
- [Keith] Wow, Mike, you're incredible!
- Here we go!
- All right Mike, you got this.
- Number 100.
- [Keith] Wow!
(rock music)
(bell rings) - Wow!
(Try Guys clapping)
- Wow, wow! - One more for me
to get to 75 and then I am tippity tapping out, out, out.
- Don't look at the dumpling.
Look past the dumpling.
See past the dumpling.
The dumpling is an after thought.
The dumpling has already been eaten.
- Wait, oh, wait!
Wait for it!
(rock music)
(Keith claps)
(bell rings) - Yeah!
- 75! - Yeah!
- 75. - Good job, good job.
- Wow!
- And that says you eat another one for good measure.
- [Zach] 101!
- 101.
The Asians have decided we're gonna tap out 101 each.
(Eugene claps) - Three taps in the sky.
(Eugene and Mike clapping)
- And then on the table. - Slam!
(bell rings) - All right.
Good job, man.
- Good job to you, buddy.
- Guys, I think that means we did not officially hit 400
between the five of us but--
- But we hit 370 whatever?
- What is that?
- 373? - 101 plus the other one,
that's 202 plus?
- Just count how many are left.
- 28.
- 202, oh, that's exactly 230
plus 75 which is-- - 69!
- No, no, 100. - 305 so that's 374.
- Wasn't that 378
was the record? - No, it's 373!
- No.
I'm doing math right now
so (mumbles) out of the 400.
- I got it, I got it, I got it.
- If it was 373 then we actually passed him by one.
- [Ned] That's 378.
- So how many did we eat?
- 374 by my math. - Four.
- Matt Stonie ate 373!
(Try Guys and Mike cheers)
- Oh! - No!
- Oh my god. - No!
- Oh my god. - Wait, so you've had
the number wrong the whole time?
- I went with what we were texted!
- Just dumplings.
- It was the pot stickers.
- I'm Googling it too.
- We still hold the record for soup dumplings!
- Here's the deal,
we don't have a research department anymore.
It's an independent venture, a small crew, small team
and if you wanna support us, subscribe,
go to Patreon.com/TryGuys.
You got a lot.
You can buy the merch, it all looks real cute.
A lot of ways to support us.
We don't have research department.
- Can you eat 11 more?
- Can you eat 11 more dumplings for us, Zach?
- I could but it's a bad idea.
- I love you to death
but I'd rather watch you suffer for a night
than the four of us vomit across the table.
- So if I eat 11 dumplings.
- You'll be our ringer.
- It was always you!
- It was always you, baby!
- Will you do it? - Gentlemen,
give me your dumplings!
- Oh! - Oh!
(triumphant music)
- In the grandest twist, Zach is coming up from behind
to contribute 11 more dumplings.
- I know I said my doctor said I'm not supposed to do this.
I got my medicine, I got my tummy stuff, I got this.
- I'm just sad that our celebration was for not.
It was such an organic celebration.
- No, we're gonna earn it.
We'll just put that after again.
We'll show it twice.
(Keith burps) - Just watching other people
eat at this point hurts me to my very soul.
(Eugene coughs)
- I'll be honest, my stomach actually hurts, like hurts.
- You guys know they only have one toilet here?
- It's fucking me up right now.
Oh my god!
- [Mike] Can someone stand in front of the girl's restroom
so we can also use that?
- I have three more!
One for each of my beautiful friends, sorry, Mike!
(everyone laughs)
- I was part of your team!
- This one is for Ned, a father, a fighter, a lover.
- Wow! (bell rings)
Wow!
- This one is for Keith,
the biggest mouth in all the lands.
(bell rings)
- Oh god.
- I can't even look in that direction.
Keep going, buddy!
- We are at 384 right now.
One dumpling left and we pass Matt Stonie's record
even though it's between five people
and it was more than 10 minutes and not the same dumpling
but it means something to us.
- Yeah, it does. - It means a lot to us.
- And this dumpling is for my friend Eugene.
An artist, an icon, a dumpling eater.
- Thanks, bro.
(Zach groans) (Mike claps)
- Swallow it, swallow it. - Done!
(bell rings) (clapping)
- Yeah, Zach! - Yes, we did it.
All right. (Mike cheers)
- Oh, wow!
- Let's just replay the other record.
- Play it again.
- And we'll just play what the last time we got excited.
(everyone cheering) (triumphant music)
- Suck it, Matt Stonie!
Thanks so much to the amazing, incomparable,
Mike Chen of Strictly Dumpling
and several other successful channels as well
that you don't even know
or maybe you don't always realize it's by him.
- I don't even know. - He's got so many.
- Well, I just wanna say thank you guys
so much for having me on this historical day,
one that will live in infamy.
Love you guys, thanks so much for having me.
- Yeah, Mike Chen!
(Try Guys cheering and clapping)
Yay Mike Chen!
- Oh, how wild!
- All right, you ready?
Until next time, we're the Try Guys,
- [Everyone] Soups up!
- Happy lunar new year!
I'm not saying soup's up.
(Mike laughs)
(Try Guys theme music)
But we're both so Asian that 101,
one dumpling over 100 makes me feel somewhat satisfied.
- Our moms would be proud of this--
- Our moms will be proud.
- Actually, they're gonna hate us.
- Yeah, they're gonna say--
- How dare you? You ate so much dumplings!
- You're going to be so fat.