Cambodia Ruler’s Recipe for Youth Appeal? An 8900-Pound Rice Cake

Phnom Penh – First came the 8,900-pound sticky-rice cake, stuffed with mung beans and pork belly, displayed at Angkor Wat and heralded as “officially amazing” by Guinness World Records.

Then, in rapid succession, came a series of record-setting feats: The largest-ever performance of Madison dancing, with 2,015 participants. The world’s longest scarf (3,772 feet), woven over the course of six months and paraded through the streets of Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital.

And in November, the world’s longest dragon boat (286 feet) was launched into the Mekong River and rowed by 179 oarsmen.

In full: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/world/asia/cambodia-hun-sen-world-records.html

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