Japanese festival breaks Guinness record for soup serving

Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A Japanese festival broke a Guinness World Record when it used construction equipment to dish out the most soup served in 8 hours.

The Yamagata Imoni Festival, which marked its 30th year of celebrating taro-based imoni soup, this year used a gargantuan pot to cook the dish.

The soup used three tons of taro, 1.2 tons of beef, 3,500 pieces of konjaku corm paste, 3,500 spring onions, 184 gallons of soy sauce, 24 gallons of sake, 441 pounds of sugar and six tons of water.

It was dished out using two brand-new construction diggers, which were fitted with custom buckets that had butter in the place of mechanical grease.

The imoni pot ended up serving 12,695 people, earning the Guinness World Record for most soup served in 8 hours.

"Imoni, which is a food culture of Yamagata, should be known across the globe through this record. We would like to continue pushing the word out," Yamagata Mayor Takahiro Sato said.