Competitors eat voraciously during the Hum Bow Eating contest in 2018 (Photo by Sam Le)
We now have the list of contestants in the upcoming hum bow eating contest in celebration of API Heritage Month.
The contestants are: Michael Byun, ACRS executive director; Toshiko Hasegawa, executive director of the Washington State Commission on Asian and Pacific American Affairs; Michael Itti, executive director of Chinese Information & Service Center; Janice Deguchi, executive director of Community for Youth; Andre Taylor, political activist; Minh-Duc Nguyen of Helping Link; and Aleksa Manila, activist.
These local celebrities will compete head-to-head in a race to eat their baked hum bows. The winners get a plaque.