Sri Lanka's giant milk rice dish

COLOMBO: An army of 150 Sri Lankan cooks cracked 2,000 coconuts and boiled more than one ton of rice on Sunday to work up a mammoth dish of traditional milk rice.

They hope their creation, a massive, 610 foot-long (185.9 meters) and 2.5 foot-wide milk rice dish, will be recognized as the world's largest of its kind by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Milk rice is a delicacy cooked for special occasions in Sri Lanka and is eaten with a chili and onion side dish.

"Thousands of people lined up in rows to finish it off," said Kingsly Rathnayaka, a director at Sirasa FM a local radio station which undertook the effort to mark its eighth anniversary.

He said the culinary endeavor was monitored by the sports ministry and an application would be made to the Guinness Book of World Records. --Reuters