Young Chinese Noodle Maker Breaks Guiness Record

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 ◆ Young Chinese Noodle Maker Breaks Guiness Record

A 24-year-old young man named Li Tao has made more than two million noodles from one kilogram of dough, breaking the Guiness World Record he himself set in 2000.

The combined length of the 2,097,152 noodles was 2,852 kilometers, 320 times the height of Tibet's world-famous Qomolangma (or Everest) Peak, the world's highest mountain peak.

The noodles were as fine as silk threads with 18 noodles passing through the eye of a single needle.

The record was set at an impressive noodle stretching display performance by Master Li in a hotel in Handan city in north China's Hebei Province.

The young noodle stretching master Li Tao from east China's coastal Jiangsu Province has already set two Guiness Records for his noodling prowess. He is the son of Li Sihai, who in his time set three Guiness Records for multiple noodle making.

Li Tao learned the craft from his father and has kept practising it for five years.

Hand-stretched noodles have been a favorite dish among Chinese for centuries, even though a large variety of machine-made noodles provide residents with much greater convenience today.

Eating noodle represents an essential part of celebrations such as birthday parties, as many people tend to believe that long noodles symbolize longevity.

Li Tao intents once again to further stretch the limits again in 2008 to greet the Chinese people's long-aspired Olympic Games in Beijing.