A 23-year-old student died at a Taiwan university after taking part in a dumpling eating contest, the China Post daily reported on Friday.
The annual contest was organized by the Da Yeh University, near Changhua, in western Taiwan. Some 60 participants ate two dumplings, with a fried egg inserted.
Chen Chun-sheng, weighing around 90 kilograms, was “certainly a fast-eater,” another participant told the newspaper. After the contest finished, Chen went to a nearby toilet, and a friend later found him sprawled on the floor.
Doctors said “he died of asphyxia, or lack of oxygen and excess of carbon dioxide in the blood,” the newspaper said.
The university authorities banned all student eating contests after the tragedy, and offered $300 to the grief-stricken mother as “comfort money,” promising to pay another $30,000 in insurance payment.
Source RIA Novosti
