The monk tells the crowd that he's the second person to eat soba in such a short amount of time, after George Hunter. The prize money is 10,000 yen, and the man who ate the most is the first person to do so. The monk says that eating contests are the best way to make money, because you can eat a lot of food in a short period of time. He tells the monk that he has a customer waiting to do an eating contest, and that if he can eat an omelette with rice in 15 minutes, he'll get 5,000 yen. The man who eats the most quickly eats 20 trays of the soba, but he only has 20 percent of the food left. If he doesn't stop eating, the monk says, he has to pay 5,000 for it.