Dancer-actor Marsicek, 28, left, and actor Chantal Plamondon, 27, during the filming of their Mukbang Monday channel. The two focus on vegan food, reviewing the latest fast-food offerings, and often film in their cars as they chat about auditions and day jobs while munching from fast-food containers. — Brittany Marsicek/AP
NEW YORK: While trying to lose weight, Becky Beach found assistance in an unlikely place: thousands of online videos featuring people binging on massive amounts of ramen, burgers, chicken wings and seafood boils brimming with crab and lobster.
The South Korea-rooted video trend is known as "mukbang”, and it has spread to the US and around the globe on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
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