World Records

Dubai, UAE – November 23, 2016 – Anantara the Palm Dubai Resort has entered the Book of World Records for the ‘Largest Mango Sticky Rice’ dish, which weighed in at 2,831 kg. Photo: Cooked by 10 chefs, the recipe for record-breaking success included 1,000 kg of rice, 500 litres of coconut milk, 500 litres of coconut cream, 50 kgs of …

Pyrgos, Greece – November 23, 2016 – The chefs-members of the Chefs Club of Peloponnese, West Greece and the Ionian Islands, have made the longest strawberry pie ever to be made, and offered it to passers-by in the center of Pyrgos; the strawberry pie was 120 m long, setting the new world record for the Longest strawberry pie. Photo: The …

Stockholm, Sweden – November 21, 2016 – St. Erik’s Brewery, one of Sweden’s leading microbreweries, developed the world’s most expensive chips using select almond potatoes harvested by hand from the potato hillside in Ammarnäs seasoned with a variety of rare ingredients: Matsutake mushrooms from forests in northern Sweden, Crown Dill from the Bjäre Peninsula, truffle seaweed from the Faroe Islands, …

Cleveland, Ohio, USA – November 16, 2016 – Using 80 bottles of Appleton Estate rum, simple syrup, lime juice and ice, Cleveland’s Porco Lounge & Tiki Room (owner Stefan Was) tasked four mixologists and a team of barbacks to man four 1.5 gallon Vitamixes until the giant Tiki mug was filled; in the end the giant drink weighed-in at 95 …

Berlin, Germany – November 14, 2016 – A total of 1,152 Ram trucks drove along the Nürburgring; the parade included Ram trucks from 1994 to present models, from highly modified to nearly stock models, thus setting the new world record for the Largest parade of pickup trucks. Photo: Ram pickup owners from all around Europe met up at Germany’s Nurburgring …

Copenhagen, Denmark – November 14, 2016 – DFDS is the largest shipping and Logistics Company in Norther Europe; the employees used 1,015 million LEGO bricks and over 900 hours to build a 40.5 feet (12.35 meters) long, 8.9 feet (2.75 meters) high ship, thus setting the new world record for the Largest LEGO ship (supported). Photo: DFDS, largest shipping and …

Zagreb, Croatia – November 14, 2016 – A lower division Croatian football player has just broken a Guinness World Record for the most hat-tricks in a row; NK Dracice Striker Stjepan Lucijanic has been scoring goals for fun in the Đakovo league in eastern Croatia and he completed his fifth hat-trick in a row to set a new record for …

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada – November 14, 2016 – Guildford Town Centre celebrated its 50th anniversary in a big way by setting a World Record for the largest carrot cake; Guildford Town Centre partnered with Chef Mickey Zhao of Saint Germain Bakery to bake and assemble the 20-foot, record-setting carrot cake, weighing approximately 2.25 tons (2250 kg), and containing 460 …

Niigata, Japan – November 14, 2016 – The record-breaking “kaki no tane,” one of Japan’s most popular traditional snacks, measures a whopping 55.4 centimeters and has been crowned the largest ever, being about 22 times the length of a regular one; it was unveiled at the head office of confectioner Kameda Seika Co. Photo: The record-breaking “kaki no tane,” one of …

Kochi, India – November 14, 2016 – Hundreds of Home Science students joined hands with the Farmers Association of India and worked together at an event ‘Haritholsavam’ at Kochi Marine Drive to enter the record books with the longest egg salad; the egg salad measured 814.58 feet long and over 7000 eggs with 197 kg of vegetables were used for …