Photo shows cookers making Yang Chow Fried Rice in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province on Oct.23, 21015.(Web photo)
BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- With a population of almost 1.4 billion, China is not short of creativity to seek Guinness World Records. However, a recent attempt has stirred up mixed feelings about the book that enlists the human achievement and extreme of natural world.
In the latest show of excess for a grab at the Guinness glory, people in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province on Thursday cooked four tonnes of Yang Chow Fried Rice to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the ancient city's establishment, according to local tourism authorities.
To make the dish, 300 professional cooks and cooking school apprentices turned on their cooking ranges at the same time to fry rice with their own ingredients, setting a new record for the world's biggest ever Yang Chow Fried Rice.
Photo shows workers trod on Yang Chow Fried Rice and shoved it onto dumpcart went viral online. (Web Photo)
However, right after the rice record entered the book of Guinness, pictures showing some workers trod on the rice and shoved it onto dumpcart right went viral online, drawing widespread critism over the wasteful ostentation.
Official from Yangzhou City Tourism Bureau explained that around 150 kg of the fried rice will be sent to farm plant.
While some foodies were drooling over the delicious rice with eggs, shrimps, carrots, more have voiced disapproval, calling it mere "publicity stunt" from local authority.
GWR on Monday responded via its offical account on China's microblog website Weibo, saying Yangzhou authority has violated the GWR rule that food should applied for the people instead of being wasted, thus the record of "world's largest Yang Chow Fried Rice" will be nullified.
Chinese enthusiam for the World Gunisess Record seems to ride on a rising trend in recent years, mixed with appaluse and criticism.
People in Panshan, northeast China's Liaoning Province set up a 6.6km-diameter and 7-tonne pot to steam 2015 crabs on Sept.16,2015. (Web Photo)
In a nation with profound food culture, the city of Yangzhou coincided with several similarly grandiose attempts in recent weeks if not years. On Sept.16, the county of Panshan in northeast China's Liaoning Province set up a 6.6m-diameter and 7-tonne pot to steam 2,015 crabs to celebrate its upcoming crab-eating season.
World's largest mooncake, weighing 2496.4 kg and 2.57-diameter, was made in Shnaghai on Sept.19, 2013.(Web Photo)
Also, the record of the largest mooncake was set in Shanghai, China, on Sept. 19, 2013. It took 15 people five days to cook the 2,496.4-kg and 2.57-diameter mooncake.
"The biggest hot pot, the largest fried rice, the largest bun... all end up as huge waste and a joke,"a netizen with the screenname "Laowang Online" commented on Weibo.
Another user wrote, "we could have applied the most wasteful country worldwide."
On the flip side, some defended the event, saying it was a meaningful one that record miracles made by human beings.
Over the past weekend, 1,443 Chinese pregnant women joined in the world's largest prenatal Yoga Lesson in 11 venues in 10 cities across the country, breaking previous record set last year.
"I am grateful that I took part in such event, it is the first time my baby and I to do a meaningful thing together," a pregnanet woman surnamed Xie said after she showed up at the event.
