World's longest noodle made by Xiangnian Food Co. Ltd of China. /Guinness World Records Photo
“It took a lot of study and understanding of how to make one single noodle as the record requires the noodle to be one single piece,” said Frigatti, adding the other two points that made the record more fun were how to capture the single noodle to protect it from being broken up and what to do with it at the end, as the guidelines require that every record involving food has to be consumed.
After over 24 hours of work, the single noodle came out more than 3,000 meters long using nearly 40 kilograms of flour, breaking the Japanese record at 548.7 meters. It was consumed at a home for the elderly at the Double Ninth Festival, which pays respect to senior citizens.
As a country famous for its traditional medicine, China also holds the record for the world’s largest field of herbaceous peonies, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine. The field is located in Bozhou, eastern China’s Anhui Province, with a total area of nearly 580,000 square meters.
Many Chinese celebrities are also record holders. Xie Na, a female host, holds the records for the most followers on the Chinese social media Weibo and the first one to reach 100 million followers on the platform.
“From records, you can describe the world, you can learn about the culture and about the country,” said Frigatti.
Records shift as technology develops
The content in the book of Guinness World Records has always changed as the world develops and evolves, said Frigatti. As China has been moving very fast in terms of technology, more tech-related applications can be seen.
“China is at the forefront at technology, especially at artificial intelligence. We see it actually replicated in our record breaking and record applications,” said Frigatti. “We have records for robots; for example, robot dancing is one of the records we have achieved in China last year with over 1,000 robots dancing simultaneously.”
“We have records for drones,” he added.
“The digital aspect of record-breaking is very strong in China, everything in China I’ve learned is done online, you know, payments, talking to people, watching TV, everything happens on your phone,” said Frigatti.
“You can see how record breaking is starting to describe the development in technology and also in the digital format.”
