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  • For 200 yen, spectators can also try chanko, the hearty stew of vegetables, meat and fish that the sumo wrestlers eat to gain weight.

    A Novice's Guide to Watching Sumo 2008

  • In some particulars they seem to agree with the chanko in being rather larger (i.e., larger than _pallipes_); the hair long, and the under fur ash-grey and _woolly_, but the black line down the forelegs is like _C. lupus_.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • There is a black variety of the chanko, as there is of the European wolf, and by some he is considered a distinct species, but is really a melanoid variety, though Kinloch writes: "The black chanko is rather larger than the grey one; he is of a beautiful glossy black, with a small white star on the chest and a few grey hairs about the muzzle."

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • In another show of support for the area, which has taken an economic hit with the shipment of many agricultural products banned due to radioactive contamination, the traditional "chanko" stew was filled with local radishes and Chinese cabbage, which the wrestlers devoured.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • We didn't know this and so were quite surprised to find a throng of TV camera people and photographers documenting the entire chanko nabe purchase and ingestion affair.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • It turns out that this day was the first day that chanko nabe had ever been served at a Nagoya Sumo tournament.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • Where else can an English-speaking foodie learn ... how to make a chanko nabe hot-pot good enough to please a

    WN.com - Articles related to Jessica Alba and Drew Barrymore ditch the glamour for bag lady style 2009

  • I’ve been in dirty little noodle shops and shiny yakitori bars and beautiful tempura places and chanko-nabe restaraunts with tegata on the walls.

    Someone’s class project…. 2006

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