- Directed by Alex Magana
- Written by Alex Magana
- Stars Becky Bush, Juliette Cecil
- Run Time: 5:25
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DW-tHrQB8
Synopsis
Carly is doing a cooking show. “Today we’re doing the Korean Fire Noodle Challenge,” she tells the camera. There’s a HUGE bowl of noodles in front of her. Twenty packages of Korean fire noodle ramen. The current record is fifteen packs. She starts her timer and starts chowing down.
Later, she gets a text “I know you cheated!” She did, in fact, cheat, but how would anyone know that? Now we get to see her eat all those noodles for real…
Commentary
Some people take their TikTok pretty seriously. Maybe too seriously. A “mukbang” is also known as an “eating show,” is an online audiovisual broadcast in which a host consumes various quantities of food while interacting with the audience.
I’ve had those same noodles. They’ll halfway kill you the first time you try them, but you get a tolerance pretty quickly. Still, twenty packs is a lot. I bet I could do it…