International Chef’s Day: Record-holding food made by chefs
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Saturday (October 20) marks the International Chef’s Day, a day to celebrate the hard work of chefs worldwide. Working behind the scenes, chefs create best cuisines at restaurants in their local area, some of which aspired to greatness by challenging world record with their “largest” delicacies. Take a look back at those snapshots and celebrate this special day! File photo: Largest cream tea scone made by British bakers in 2009. (Photos: VCG)
Over 100 chefs slice noodles into a boiled pot with a diameter of 6.8 meters during the opening ceremony of Shanxi Wheaten Food Culture Festival on August 26, 2016, in Taiyuan City, north China's Shanxi Province. The cooking event made the Guinness Book of World Records of the most people slicing noodles together.
Six chefs in Wuhan City, central China's Hubei Province, score a Guinness World Record by making the world's largest piece of "youtiao" or fried dough stick on September 24, 2014. The fried food item, measuring 3.7 meters long, was unveiled at the 15th Annual Chinese Food Festival.
British experimental chef Heston Blumenthal challenges the world record with his large 99 cone, which weighs one tonne and takes a whole month to freeze on June 30, 2012. The ice cream was more than four meters tall, exceeding the previous record of about two and a half meters.
World-record breaking sushi mosaic created by more than 100 chefs in China's Hong Kong features more than 20k pieces of sushi and covers an area of over 37 square meters, January 8, 2014.
Bosnian chefs and their apprentices cut the large minced meat pie, known as "burek", on the central square in Tuzla, on October 14, 2017. The pie was made as an attempt at the Guinness record for the largest burek. It weighed 650 kilograms, was made from 1.5 km of hand-rolled dough and the final product measured 6.5 meters in diameter.