Indofood creates world's largest noodle packet

A major Indonesian food manufacturer has secured a place in the Guinness Book of Records by producing the world's largest packet and the largest serving of instant noodles. The giant packet, created by PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, was 3.4-meters (11.2 feet) long, 2.35-meters wide and 0.47-meters thick. It weighed nearly 665 kilograms (1,463 pounds) or equal the combined weight of around 8,000 normal-sized packets, the Jakarta Post said Monday.
Some 50 engineers and workers were involved in the production process which began in early February at Indofood's main plant in east Java, the daily said.
Guinness officials and experts from the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency were present to ensure the dimensions were accurate and that the end product was fit for human consumption, the paper said. Guinness representative Christian Marais was quoted as saying the largest packet of instant noodles was a new record category.
PT Indofood also broke a 1998 record on the largest serving of noodles held by the Soba Association of Murayama in Japan.
A team of 255 cooks dished out 4.17 tonnes of Indofood's popular Supermie noodles in just 23 minutes before serving it in a giant bowl to thousands of people at a Lunar New Year festival last week on the resort island of Bali, the daily said.