Monster New Year cake planned

Monster New Year cake planned

HANOI: Fifty Vietnam cooks plan to make a monster sticky rice cake capable of feeding 20,000 people to celebrate Vietnam's lunar new year next month.

The team will mix 330 kg (728 lb) of sticky rice, 100 kg (221 lb) of green peas, 100 kg (221 lb) of pork and 10 kg (22 lb) of spices to make a 2.25 square meteR cake that will weigh 1.4 tons and take four days to cook, the sponsors of the project said.

Le Van Khoi of Coca Cola Vietnam said the cake would be cut into 20,000 pieces and donated to charities. The sponsors are hoping for a place in the Guinness Book of Records and Ripley's Believe It Or Not.

Sticky rice cakes are a traditional dish during the Tet, as Vietnamese call the traditional New Year festival which starts this year on Feb. 11. Normally though the cakes weigh no more than one kg and take only half a day to cook. --Reuters