  We present here the East Asia to Italy Nearly Global VLBI (EATING VLBI)
project. How this project started and the evolution of the international
collaboration between Korean, Japanese, and Italian researchers to study
compact sources with VLBI observations is reported. Problems related to the
synchronization of the very different arrays and technical details of the
telescopes involved are presented and discussed. The relatively high
observation frequency (22 and 43 GHz) and the long baselines between Italy and
East Asia produced high-resolution images. We present example images to
demonstrate the typical performance of the EATING VLBI array. The results
attracted international researchers and the collaboration is growing, now
including Chinese and Russian stations. New in progress projects are discussed
and future possibilities with a larger number of telescopes and a better
frequency coverage are briefly discussed herein.
